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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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“The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually agent, actor, director, producer, leading man. And you are a star if you sleep with them in that order. Crude but true.”
—Hedy Lamarr

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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Buster Keaton, New York City, 1952
“The screen was just a white sheet. They had this flickering machine. That was the first time I saw this angel with a white face and these beautiful eyes. I knew this was something special. It was the first time I saw Keaton. He wore a flat pancake of a hat, and I just couldn’t believe the man’s grace.”
—Mel Brooks, on first seeing a Buster Keaton film when Brooks was a child.

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn’t last long.”
—Shelley Winters

 

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions, Spitting Image

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“One of the most idolized beauties of the century, Brigitte Bardot was famous for a lot of things. But besides her full lips, winged eye liner and curvy body we adored her for her voluminous blonde hair and the mod way she styled it. We’ve always wondered what was the secret behind her texturedfront pieces, so when our favorite Oribe hairstylist Adam Livermore dished on an industry secret we couldn’t wait to tell you! Apparently, Oribe himself had been doing a lot of research on the famous starlet when he uncovered a disturbing yet witty detail about her hair regime – she used spit. Yes, that is right. This French beauty used her own saliva to style her hair on the reg. She apparently applied spit to the longer pieces of hair that frame her head. She would then twirl them and pull them back tight behind her ear where she would then let them dry and pull them out to reveal the unmistakable signature curl. Clever? Perhaps, but we still recommend a styling cream to achieve almost the same effect.” —Amanda Elser
“One of the most idolized beauties of the century, Brigitte Bardot was famous for a lot of things. But besides her full lips, winged eye liner and curvy body we adored her for her voluminous blonde hair and the mod way she styled it. We’ve always wondered what was the secret behind her texturedfront pieces, so when our favorite Oribe hairstylist Adam Livermore dished on an industry secret we couldn’t wait to tell you!
Apparently, Oribe himself had been doing a lot of research on the famous starlet when he uncovered a disturbing yet witty detail about her hair regime – she used spit. Yes, that is right. This French beauty used her own saliva to style her hair on the reg. She apparently applied spit to the longer pieces of hair that frame her head. She would then twirl them and pull them back tight behind her ear where she would then let them dry and pull them out to reveal the unmistakable signature curl.
Clever? Perhaps, but we still recommend a styling cream to achieve almost the same effect.” —Amanda Elser

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