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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.
Annual Ariel Avrech
Memorial Lectures
Young Israel of Century City
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Fifteenth: June 10, 2018
Jackie Danicki: “Confessions of a Convert: A Humbling, Joyful Journey to Judaism.”
Blog Post | Audio: (94 MB)Fourteenth: June 11, 2017
Daniel Greenfield: “Fighting Anti-Semitism and Defending Israel in the Age of BDS.”
Blog Post | Audio: (100 MB)Eleventh: June 8, 2014
Michael Medved: “Shifting Alliances: Why Liberals No Longer Reliably Support Israel — And Conservatives Do.”
Blog Post | Audio: (97MB)Tenth: June 9, 2013
David Horowitz: “The War Against Judaism on the University Campus.”
Blog Post | Audio: (16MB)Ninth: June 3, 2012
Joel B. Pollak: “The Mainstream Media’s Betrayal of Israel.”
Blog Post | Audio: (15MB)Eighth: June 5, 2011
Yossi Klein Halevi: “What is Expected of a Survivor People: Lessons My Father Taught Me.”
Blog Post | Audio: (18MB)Seventh: June 13, 2010
Dennis Prager: “Happiness is a Mitzvah, Not an Emotion.”
Blog Post | Audio: (80MB)
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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions
Posted in Design, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Jean Harlow, Painting, Photography, Quotes, Rita Hayworth, Screenwriting
Also tagged Alma Rubens, Audrey Hepburn, Charles Sheeler, David Moore, Dolores Del Rio, Erwin Blumenfeld, Francis Luis Mora, François Kollar, Grant Wood, Hermann Landshoff, Horst P. Horst, Montblanc, Murillo, Nicolas De Stael, Richard Avedon, Rita Hayworth, Robert Klippel
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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions
Posted in Ann Blyth, Ginger Rogers, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Joan Bennett, Movie Posters, Painting, Photography, Quotes, Screenwriting
Also tagged Andy Galsworthy, Ann Blyth, Anna May Wong, Cecil Beaton, Corneille de Lyon, Edward Hopper, Elizabeth Taylor, Eric Swayne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Horst P. Horst, Jacob Lawrence, Joan Bennett, Kept Husbands, Livia Yarden, movie posters, Peggy Cummins, Ralston Crawford, Richard Avedon, Vintage Cars, Yiddish Posters
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Friday Photos: The No Men Edition
In Pierke Avot (Ethic of the Fathers) Hillel teaches: “In a place where there are no men, strive to be a man.” Bibi Netanyahu won a resounding victory over the Israeli left and Barack Obama by paying heed to the great sage Hillel’s teaching. Bibi is a man in a world that is awash in eunuchs.
Posted in Benjamin Netanyahu, Friday Fotos, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, IslamoNazis, Israel, Jerusalem, Obama Watch, Talmud
Also tagged Albert Pinkham Ryder, Alfred Hitchcock, Ann Sheridan, Anthony Perkins, Champion, Dizzy Dean, Ethics of the Fathers, Flesh and the Devil, Gilda, Great Garbo, John Dahl, John Gilbert, Kirk Douglas, Livia Yarden, Marilyn Maxwell, North by Northwest, Peggy Cummins, Pirkei Avot, Tippi Hedrin, Toby Kahn
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Ten Greatest Movies Ever Made
Every ten years, Sight & Sound magazine, a British publication devoted to the — cue cultured BBC accent — Art of Cinema, surveys some 1,000 critics, directors and know-it-all yentas, most of whom I’ve never heard, asking them to list the ten greatest movies in the known universe. Here’s the survey. For the past forty […]
Movie Posters: Hollywood’s Golden Age
Have you looked at a movie poster recently and said to yourself: I really have to see that film. Doubtful. In the digital era movie posters are barely there, a minor and frequently mediocre—tedious star shots dominate—element in the white-noise media that is dominated by an ever-shifting social media. There was a time, however, when […]
Posted in Hollywood, Movie Posters
Also tagged Ann Blyth, Elissa Landry, He Who Gets Slapped, Joan Crawford, John Dall, John Ford, John Gilbert, John Wayne, Laurence Olivier, Lillian Gish, Lon Chaney, Lorna Doone, Madge Bellamy, Mildren Pierce, Norma Shearer, Peggy Cummins, Ronald Colman, Stagecoach, The White Sister, The Yellow Ticket, Zachary Scott
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The Wisdom of Hollywood Screenwriters
From where do we draw wisdom? First and foremost, Seraphic Secret relies on the Torah—written and oral—on the lessons of 3,000 years of Jewish history, and on the common sense advice of my wife Karen. And then there are the movies, a moral landscape of immeasurable power where searing images and razor-sharp dialogue deliver lessons […]
Posted in Hollywood, Screenwriting, Wisdom of Hollywood Screenwriters
Also tagged Ace in the Hole, Beast of the City, Ben Hecht, Billy Wilder, China Seas, Clark Gable, Dalton Trumbo, Gone With the Wind, James Kevin McGuiness, Jan Sterling, Jean Harlow, Jo Swerling, John Lee Mahin, John Van Druten, Jules Furthman, Kirk Douglas, Lesser Samuels, MacKinlay Kantor, Oliver H.P. Garrett, Sidney Howard, Victor Desny, Vivien Leigh, W.R. Burnett, Walter Newman
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The Twenty Greatest Movies of the 1940’s: ’46-’49
We continue our series of the Twenty Greatest Movies of each decade. Here are our our picks for the last five great movies of the 1940’s. 16. Notorious, 1946. No American actor has tampered with his own charming image more successfully than Cary Grant. In Only Angels Have Wings (1939) he is the tough boss […]
Posted in Great Movies, Greatest Movies of the 1940s, Hollywood
Also tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster, Cary Grant, Charles Dickens, David Lean, Great Expectations, Howard Hawks, Ingrid Bergman, Jean Simmons, Joanne Dru, John Dahl, John Wayne, Joseph H. Lewis, Montgomery Clift, Notorious, Peggy Cummins, Red River, The Killers
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This Land of Film Noir
Every morning I rise at about five AM, don my sweats, hook up my iPhone’s music function and take a brisk three-mile walk. The streets of Los Angeles at this time of the morning are wet, slick from all the lawn sprinklers that explode with a fearsome hiss in the middle of the night. There […]
Posted in Hollywood, Movies
Also tagged Cornel Wilde, Double Indemnity, Film Noir, Jean Wallace, John Alton, John Dahl, Los Angeles, Peggy Cummins, The Big Combo, The Killing
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