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

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“She didn’t want to be famous. She wanted to be happy.”
—Clark Gable on Jean Harlow

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“I don’t think much of most of the films I made, but being a movie star was something I liked very much… My film career faded. A man can go on playing certain roles till he’s sixty. But not a woman… The golden age is gone, and with it most of the people of great taste. It doesn’t seem to be any fun any more.”—Joan Bennett in a 1984 interview

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“I think if you were born with privileges—or given privileges—then you should share them. Like money—it’s to share. I’ve known too many people who just sat and hoarded and were miserable. Just miserable SOBs. I have always believed that giving is one of the reasons that we were put on this earth. I’ve acted on that belief since I was old enough to leave my nest…”
—Elizabeth Taylor

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Friday Photos: Here, There, Everywhere

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Ava Gardner on her glamorous image: “That ain’t me. I grew up one step up from a dirt farmer. I ironed, I picked cotton, I had one clean dress, and nobody paid one bit of attention to me.”
Ava Gardner on her glamorous image: “That ain’t me. I grew up one step up from a dirt farmer. I ironed, I picked cotton, I had one clean dress, and nobody paid one bit of attention to me.”

Chutzpah: George Stephanapoulos says there is no liberal bias in the media.

Enjoy the images.

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Friday Photos: The No Men Edition

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In one of our favorite movies, Gun Crazy ('50) John Dahl strives to please the femme fatale Peggy Cummins.
In one of our favorite movies, “Gun Crazy” (’50) John Dahl strives to please the femme fatale Peggy Cummins.

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.

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