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By Robert J. Avrech | May 12, 2017

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Posted in Art, Design, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Jewish Holidays, Joan Bennett, Judaica, Judaism, Painting, Photography, True Hollywood Confessions | Also tagged Bert Hardy, Bugatti, Charles Bobinet, Cornelis Norbertus Gysbrechts, Fra Filippo Lippi, Gustave Serrurier-Bovy, Horology, Itzhak Luvaton, Jacob Ochtervelt, Lucille Ball, Morris Louis, Peter Keetman, Randall Knives, Rick McGinnis, Roman Art, Sabrina, Shirley Jones, Southworth and Hawes | 4 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | March 30, 2017

Star in the Hat

Tweet There was a time when wearing a hat was de rigueur. Fine millinery was considered a sign of good taste, good breeding, and good fashion. Hollywood actresses were rarely seen in public without hat, gloves and a designer outfit. Those were the days when Hollywood insisted on projecting style and glamour. Of course, with the […]

Posted in Fashion, Gloria Swanson, Hollywood, Hollywood Hats, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Joan Bennett, Theda Bara | Also tagged Agnes Ayres, Ann Harding, Dolores Costello, Gloria Swanson, Hollywood Hats, Lili Damita, Theda Bara | Leave a comment

By Robert J. Avrech | December 11, 2015

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Posted in Art, Friday Fotos, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Painting, Photography, True Hollywood Confessions | Also tagged Angelica Kauffmann, Angie Dickinson, Bernardino Luini, Brice Marden, Dosso Dossi, Elizabeth Taylor, Francesca Woodman, Gary Cooper, George Bellows, Grant Wood, High Noon, Kirsty Mitchell, Louise Fishman, Paul Revere Jr., Peter Paul Rubens, Petrus Christus, Robert Ryan, Romina Ressia, Tobi Kahn, Vilhelm Hammershøi, William Adolphe Bouguereau, Woman on the Beach | 6 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | May 1, 2015

Friday Photos: UnBaltimore Edition

Tweet The Baltimore neighborhood that saw the worst of the violence was already filled with many burned-out buildings and vacant lots that had not been rebuilt since the 1968 riots that followed the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Source via my friend Neo-Neocon Nothing more to say but enjoy the photos.

Posted in Art, Baltimore Riots, Brigitte Bardot, Friday Fotos, Glamour, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography | Also tagged Audrey Hepburn, Baltimore Orioles, Cal Ripken, Catherine Deneuve, Constance Bennett, Dorothy Gish, Elvis Presley, Emma Matzo, Francois Dorleac, Gustav Klimt, Hedy Lamarr, Joan Fontaine, John Wayne, Jr., Karen Singer Avrech, Lillian Gish, Lizabeth Scott, Marilyn Monroe, Micha Bar-Am, Olivia de Havilland, Pablo Picasso, Rabbi Philip Harris Singer, Rudolph Valentino | 14 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | September 17, 2013

Tough Dames, Tough Dialogue

Tweet 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, […]

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

By Robert J. Avrech | June 15, 2012

Friday Fashion: The Female Animal

Tweet In last week’s Friday Fashion post we observed that designers frequently clothe women utilizing fur, feathers and animal patterns. For as long as fashion has existed, animal metaphors have been an indispensible part of the designer’s lexicon. Hollywood, during its golden age, a leading arbiter of taste, heightened and refined the animal analogy with […]

Posted in Ava Gardner, Clark Gable, Constance Bennett, Friday Fashion, Gene Tierney, Irene Dunne, Jean Harlow, Joan Bennett, Lupe Velez, Marlene Dietrich, Martha Hyer | Also tagged Adrian, Constance Bennett, Costume Design, Edward Stevenson, Gene Tierney, George Hurrell, Glamour, Hollywood Glamour, Karen Singer Avrech, Martha Hyer, Robert Kalloch, Scarlet Street, The Woman in the Window | 7 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | November 4, 2011

Friday Fashion: Hollywood Hats

Tweet There was a time when wearing a hat was de rigueur. Fine millinery was considered a sign of good taste, good breeding and good fashion. Hollywood actresses were rarely seen in public without hat, gloves and a designer outfit. Those were the days when Hollywood insisted on projecting style and glamour. Of course, with the […]

Posted in Friday Fashion, Hollywood Hats | Also tagged Audrey Hepburn, Ava Gardner, Glamour, Grace Kelly, Hedda Hopper, Lilyan Tashman, Marlene Dietrich, Miriam Hopkins, Vivien Leigh | 14 Responses

How I Married Karen

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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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Fourteenth: June 11, 2016
Daniel Greenfield: “Fighting Anti-Semitism and Defending Israel in the Age of BDS.”

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

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

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Eleventh: June 8, 2014
Michael Medved: “Shifting Alliances: Why Liberals No Longer Reliably Support Israel — And Conservatives Do.”

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Tenth: June 9, 2013
David Horowitz: “The War Against Judaism on the University Campus.”

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Ninth: June 3, 2012
Joel B. Pollak: “The Mainstream Media’s Betrayal of Israel.”

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Eighth: June 5, 2011
Yossi Klein Halevi: “What is Expected of a Survivor People: Lessons My Father Taught Me.”

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Seventh: June 13, 2010
Dennis Prager: “Happiness is a Mitzvah, Not an Emotion.”

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

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

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