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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: August 17, 2018

Posted in Alfred Hitchcock, Art, Barbara Stanwyck, Baseball, Brigitte Bardot, Carole Lombard, Design, Fashion, Glamour, Henry Fonda, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Humphrey Bogart, Israel, Jean Harlow, Jewish Photography, Judaica, Judaism, Katherine Hepburn, Lauren Bacall, Livia Yarden, Movie Posters, Movies, Painting, Photography, Rick McGinnis, Rock Hudson, Silent Movies, True Hollywood Confessions, William Powell | Also tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Art Deco Radios, Barbara Stanwyck, Baseball Hall of Fame, Brigitte Bardot, Carole Lombard, Dashiel Hammett, Edouard Boubat, Erwin Blumenfeld, Fred Herzog, Gerald Murphy, Hell's Angels, Howard Hughes, Jean Harlow, Joes McCrea, John Thomas Peele, Livia, Norma Talmadge, Photography, Photoplay Magazine, Polish Posters, Rick McGinnis, Rock Hudson, Ruth Orkin, William Powell | 12 Responses

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: May 27, 2016

Posted in Art, Elizabeth Taylor, Friday Fotos, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Judaism, Marilyn Monroe, Photography, True Hollywood Confessions | Also tagged Adam Tihany, Adolph Von Menzel, Bert Hardy, Charles Demuth, Edward Hopper, Elizabeth Taylor, Fede Galizia, Gabriele Münter, High Sierra, Jeff Gusky, Joel Shapiro, Marie Antoinette, Marilyn Monroe, Nina Leen, Olga Chekova, Ruth Orkin, Stuart Davis, William Michael Harnett | 7 Responses

Tough Dames, Tough Dialogue

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: September 17, 2013

Less is more. That’s the rule I follow when writing dialogue for one of my films. In truth, when writing a screenplay, I make every effort to draft scenes with no dialogue. Zip. Zero. Nada. Film is, or should be, primarily a visual medium where the story is told using images. But of course, dialogue […]

Posted in Great Dialogue, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Screenwriting | Also tagged Barbara Stanwyck, Cleo Moore, Condemned Women, Joan Bennett, Lee Patrick, One Girl's Confession, Sally Eilers, The Lady Eve, The Reckless Moment, Women in Prison Movies | 17 Responses

The Twenty Greatest Movies of the 1940s: ’40-’43

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: December 1, 2011

Several months ago I started a list of my picks for the Greatest Movies ever made. I began with silent films, made my way through the 30’s, then started the 40’s but got sidetracked by, um, laziness. My apologies. I’m going to continue with my list of the 20 films that I feel are the […]

Posted in Great Movies, Greatest Movies of the 1940s, Hollywood | Also tagged Ball of Fire, Barbara Stanwyck, Billy Wilder, Carl Dreyer, Cary Grant, Day of Wrath, Fred MacMurray, Ginger Rogers, Greer Garson, His Girl Friday, How Green Was My Valley, Irene Dunne, John Ford, Lisbeth Movin, Mitchell Leisen, My Favorite Wife, Random Harvest, Remember the Night, Robert Taylor, Ronald Colman, Rosalind Russell, The Lady Eve, The Major and the Minor, Vivien Leigh, Waterloo Bridge | 13 Responses

Catching Up: Twenty Greatest Movies of the 1940’s

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: December 7, 2010

Several months ago I started a list of my picks for the Greatest Movies ever made. I started with silent films, made my way through the 30’s, then started the 40’s but got sidetracked by, um, laziness. My apologies. I’m going to continue with my list of the 20 films that I feel are the […]

Posted in Great Movies, Hollywood | Also tagged Ball of Fire, Barbara Stanwyck, Carl Dreyer, Cary Grant, Day of Wrath, Fred MacMurray, Ginger Rogers, Greatest Movies, Greer Garson, His Girl Friday, Hollywood 1940's, How Green Was My Valley, Irene Dunne, John Ford, Lisbeth Movin, Maureen O'Hara, My Favorite Wife, Random Harvest, Remember the Night, Robert Taylor, Ronald Colman, Rosalind Russell, The Lady Eve, The Major and the Minor, Vivien Leigh, Waterloo Bridge | Leave a comment

How I Married Karen

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by Robert J. Avrech

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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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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)

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

Blog Post | Audio: (70 MB)

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

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)

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

Blog Post | Audio: (64MB)

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

Blog Post | Audio: (70MB)
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