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Robert J. Avrech: Emmy Award winning screenwriter. Movie fanatic. Helplessly and hopelessly in love with my wife since age nine.

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“I thought Marilyn Monroe was the most beautiful woman in the world and Elizabeth Taylor breathtaking. But, when I see myself on the screen I say, ‘Oh shoot! What are they talking about?’”
—Farrah Fawcett (born Ferrah Leni Fawcett; 1947 – 2009)

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“I was never pretty, never really popular. I was lanky and funny looking.”
—Tanya Roberts, (born Victoria Leigh Blum, 1955 – 2021) RIP

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“All this publicity makes me a little shy and afraid. I’m afraid that people will expect too much of me, right now when I’ve only started my acting career.”
—Marilyn Monroe, 1950

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Book On My Night Table

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Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks

From the Back Cover:

When the plague visits an isolated village in the English countryside, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer.

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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I’ve often said to young actresses whom I noticed were affected by the adulation – ‘Don’t let these people impress you; you know it doesn’t mean a thing when they make a fuss over you. They’ll forget you tomorrow.’”
—Carole Lombard

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