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By Robert J. Avrech | February 17, 2012

Friday Fashion: The Past Is The Present

Seraphic Secret likes to check out the latest fashions, scouting for beautiful but modest clothing. We don’t believe that women have to reveal acres of flesh in order to appear and feel attractive. In fact, the opposite. The more chaste the surface, the more mystery and depth. This season, it’s kind of obvious that [...]

Posted in Friday Fashion | Also tagged Anna May Wong, Calvin Klein, Douglas Hannant, Downton Abbey, Eva Marie Saint, Fall 2012 RTW, Hebrew Tattoos, Hollywood Influence on Fashion, Jason Wu, Kim Novak, Lyn Devon, Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich, Milly, Modest Fashion, Orry-Kelly, Ralph Lauren, Suzanne Pleshette, Tippi Hedrin, Victoria Beckham | 11 Comments

By Robert J. Avrech | February 3, 2012

Friday Fotos: Hollywood Stars and Their Cars

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. It didn’t matter [...]

Posted in Friday Fotos, Hollywood, Stars and Cars | Also tagged Abraham Lincoln, Cadillac, Clark Gable, Deusenberg, Friday Fotos, Hollywood on Wheels, Joan Crawford, Marilyn Monroe, Packard, Pierce Arrow, Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle, Stepin Fetchit, Tyrone Power | 7 Comments

By Robert J. Avrech | January 26, 2012

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, Gun Crazy, James Kevin McGuiness, Jan Sterling, 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 | 7 Comments

By Robert J. Avrech | December 2, 2011

Friday Footwear: Hollywood Parade

Glamour depends on mystery, the art of concealment. Hollywood stars of the past and their handlers understood that to maintain the image projected on the screen was a full-time job. Hard working stars like Joan Crawford never appeared in public less than impeccably turned out. Even at their most casual, Hollywood stars of the golden [...]

Posted in Friday Footwear, Hollywood, Movies | Also tagged Brooks Brothers, Gail Patrick, Gene Kelly, Ginger Rogers, Glamour, Marlene Dietrich, Paul Bern, Paulette Goddard, Rodeo Drive, Sabbath, Shabbat | 7 Comments

By Robert J. Avrech | September 16, 2011

Friday Footwear: Into Thin Air

Several days ago Seraphic Secret received this email from a loyal but unhappy reader: Dear Robert: It’s been ages since you posted a Friday Footwear blog. I get it. You like to write about Israel. Awesome. I’m a Christian Zionist who loves the Jewish people. You like to cut Obama down to size. Double awesome. [...]

Posted in Friday Footwear | Also tagged Chester Morris, Fashion, Karen, Loehmann's, Target | 5 Comments

By Robert J. Avrech | August 12, 2011

Friday Fashion: Hollywood The Old is New

Every once in a while Seraphic Secret come across a Hollywood photo that isn’t a burnished glamour shot but a portrait of the star caught in a more casual, more intimate moment. Quite often, the resulting look transcends both time and place in terms of fashion and style. Above, in the early 1950′s, is—who else?—Brigitte [...]

Posted in Friday Fashion, Hollywood | Also tagged Brigitte Bardot, Edith Falk, Glamour, Jimmy Stewart, Maria Riva, Marlene Dietrich, Retro-Fashion, Rudy Sieber | 13 Comments

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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