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Tweet Labor Day affords us the opportunity to reflect on work, our jobs, present and past. Good jobs, bad jobs, we’ve all had our share of both. Work should set you free. Honest labor puts money in your pocket which allows you to spend that money as you see fit. Ideally, work infuses the individual […]

Posted in Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Labor Day, Obama Watch, Quotes, Torah | Also tagged Anthony Hopkins, Anthony Quinn, Barbra Streisand, Bette Davis, Bing Crosby, Doris Day, Faye Dunaway, Gary Cooper, Greta Garbo, Hollywood Gossip, Humphrey Bogart, James Dean, Joan Crawford, John Travolta, Judy garland, Kirk Douglas, Lawrence Olivier, Louise Brooks, Mae Clarke, Mae West, Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich, Montgomery Clift, Robert Mitchum, Rod Steiger, Shirley MacLaine, Steve McQ, W.C. Fields, Walter Matthau, William Holden | 18 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | May 9, 2013

Hollywood Stars and Cars: I Drive Therefore I Am

Tweet America has long had a love affair with the automobile. Cars are the ultimate expression of form, function, fashion — and speed. But most of all the car represents freedom. Try and remember when you were a teenager yearning for your driver’s license so you could hop into daddy’s car and go, go, go. […]

Posted in Hollywood, Stars and Cars | Also tagged Cadillac, Corvette, Douglas Fairbanks, Duesenberg, Frank Sinatra, Ginger Rogers, Jaguar, Janet Gaynor, Jr., Kim Novak, Marilyn Monroe, Nancy Carroll, Packard, Phantom Corsair Cord, Pierce Arrow, Richard Dix, Steve McQueen, T-Bird, Young in Heart | 21 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | January 20, 2012

Friday Fashion: Hollywood Males It In

Tweet The operative word is effortless. In truth, Chaplin’s style was only achieved through the superlative tailoring of the English Savile Row firm, Anderson & Sheppard. As the new book, Anderson & Sheppard: A Style is Born, edited by Graydon Carter and Cullen Murphy, makes clear, the venerable British tailors shunned actors and other show-biz […]

Posted in Books, Clark Gable, Friday Fashion, Hollywood, Joan Crawford, Men's Fashion, Rudolph Valentino | Also tagged Anderson & Sheppard, Anderson & Sheppard: A Style is Born, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Gary Cooper, Hollywood Glamour, Marlene Dietrich, Savile Row, Victor Fleming, Vivien Leigh | 6 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | January 13, 2012

Friday Fashion: Hollywood on Parade

Tweet Seraphic Secret was glancing through the latest issue of the “National Enquirer” the other day—how else am I going to learn about what’s going on in Hollywood?—and was horrified to discover that this tabloid has a rather unhealthy fixation on celebrity photos that focus on cellulite, disheveled stars in flip-flops taking out the garbage, […]

Posted in Friday Fashion, Hollywood | Also tagged Glamour, Hedy Lamarr, Hollywood's Golden Age, In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust, Mervyn LeRoy, Myrna Loy, National Enquirer, Random Harvest, Shabbat, Susan Peters | 14 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | December 2, 2010

The Twenty Greatest Movies of the 1930s: ’34-’37

Tweet We continue our survey of the Twenty Greatest Movies of each decade. For The Twenty Greatest Movies of the 1920s, click here. For The Twenty Greatest Movies of the 1930s, click here. For The Twenty Greatest Movies of the 1940’s, click here. Let’s roll: 11. Twentieth Century, 1934. Oscar Jaffe, John Barrymore, a stubborn, […]

Posted in Great Movies, Greatest Movies of the 1930s, Twenty Greatest Movies of the 1930s | Also tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Carole Lombard, Cary Grant, Desire, Ernst Lubitsch, Gary Cooper, Ginger Rogers, Howard Hawks, Irene Dunne, John Barrymore, Madeleine Carroll, Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat, Swing Time, The 39 Steps, The Awful Truth, Twentieth Century | 20 Responses

How I Married Karen

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About Me
Robert J. Avrech
Los Angeles, California
I'm an Emmy Award winning screenwriter. I'm also an observant Jew, a religious Zionist, a conservative Republican, and a member of the NRA. I've been writing and producing in Hollywood for over twenty-five years. But the focus of my life is my family: my radiant wife, Karen—with whom I have been in love with since I was nine years-old—and my two daughters, who, thankfully, look like Karen. Not too long ago, we had three children. But our son, Ariel, died at the age of twenty-two from cancer. We miss him terribly. We think about him practically every minute of every day. People tell us that time heals, but Karen and I know this is not true. Time grinds away doing its terrible work. Ariel is gone. Yet absence becomes presence.

Ariel Chaim Avrech, ZT'L, May His Righteous Memory be a Blessing.
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Fourteenth: June 11, 2016
Daniel Greenfield: “Fighting Anti-Semitism and Defending Israel in the Age of BDS.”

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Thirteenth: May 22, 2016
Ben Shapiro: “How You Can Save Israel”

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Twelfth: June 7, 2015
Larry Elder: “The New Black Anti-Semitism”

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Eleventh: June 8, 2014
Michael Medved: “Shifting Alliances: Why Liberals No Longer Reliably Support Israel — And Conservatives Do.”

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Tenth: June 9, 2013
David Horowitz: “The War Against Judaism on the University Campus.”

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Ninth: June 3, 2012
Joel B. Pollak: “The Mainstream Media’s Betrayal of Israel.”

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Eighth: June 5, 2011
Yossi Klein Halevi: “What is Expected of a Survivor People: Lessons My Father Taught Me.”

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Seventh: June 13, 2010
Dennis Prager: “Happiness is a Mitzvah, Not an Emotion.”

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Sixth: June 21, 2009
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky: “Conformity in Jewish Life: Vice, Virtue or Affectation?”

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Fifth: June 15, 2008
Rabbi Dr. Gil S. Perl: “What Was the Rosh Yeshiva Reading: Intellectual Openness in 19th Century Lithuania.”

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