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By Robert J. Avrech | September 15, 2017

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Posted in Art, Eleanor Parker, Friday Fotos, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Israel, Jerusalem, Judaica, Judaism, Movie Posters, Movies, Painting, Photography, Quotes | Also tagged Anita Ekberg, Edvard Munch, Eleanor Parker, Elliot Erwitt, Félix Vallotton, Harry Callahan, Jackson Pollock, Liberale da Verona, Peter Sellers, Rick McGinnis, Sophia Loren, Tatsuya Tanaka, Vintage Cars | 5 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 2, 2017

July 4th Flashback: When Hollywood Loved America

Tweet A long time ago, in a universe far, far away, in a place called Hollywood, the movie studios and the actors who flourished in the dream factories, celebrated their love of America and enthusiastically indulged in overt displays of patriotism. L.B. Mayer (b. Lazar Meir) the powerful head of MGM, was a pioneer of […]

Posted in America, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, July 4th | Also tagged Ann Blythe, Ava Gardner, Bette Davis, Betty Compson, Betty Grable, Colleen Moore, Debbie Reynolds, Elizabeth Taylor, Helen Twelvetrees, Jean Harlow, Joan Crawford, Leila Hyams, Madge Evans, Marian Marsh, Marilyn Monroe, Mary Doran, Rita Hayworth | 12 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | March 17, 2017

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Posted in Anna May Wong, Art, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Joan Crawford, Lana Turner, Painting, Photography, Quotes, Screenwriting, True Hollywood Confessions | Also tagged Anna May Wong, Bugatti, David Hockney, Edward Hopper, Henri Matisse, His Girl Friday, Ilse Bing, Jimmy Stewart, Joan Crawford, Rick McGinnis | 8 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 3, 2016

Flashback: July 4th, When Hollywood Was Patriotic

Posted in Actors, America, Ava Gardner, Colleen Moore, Helen Twelvetrees, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, July 4th | Also tagged Ava Gardner, Bette Davis, Debbie Reynolds, Elizabeth Taylor, Helen Twelvetrees, Jean Harlow, Joan Crawford, Leila Hyams, Madge Evans, Marilyn Monroe, Timothy Oulton | 7 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | November 20, 2015

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Posted in Art, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Marilyn Monroe, Movie Posters, Movies, Painting, True Hollywood Confessions | Also tagged Agnolo Bronzino, Arthur Miller, Billy Wilder, Degas, Edward Hopper, George Seeley, Ghirlandaio Domenico, Helen Frankenthaler, Joe DiMaggio, Joseph Cornell, Julia Margaret Cameron, Kathy Muehlemann, Lewis Hine, Marie-Gabrielle Capet, Marilyn Monroe, Roy Lichtenstein, Tobi Kahn, Vilhelm Hammershøi, w | 7 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | October 2, 2015

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Posted in Art, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Myrna Loy, Painting, True Hollywood Confessions | Also tagged Barnett Newman, Carole Lombard, Claudette Colbert, Fragonard, Mark Rothko, Myrna Loy, Still Photography, Vermeer, William Powell | 17 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 17, 2015

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Posted in Art, Bette Davis, Family, Friday Footwear, Friday Fotos, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Painting, The Wit and Wisdom of Hollywood, True Hollywood Confessions, Vivien Leigh | Also tagged Abraham and Isaac, Angelina Jolie, Betty Grable, Carole Lombard, Caspar David Friedrich, Claudette Colbert, Clyfford Still, Constance Bennett, Eleanor Parker, Giorgione, Gone With the Wind, Ingrid Bergman, Judith, Laurence Olivier, Livia Yarden, Lucille Ball, Matisse, Murillo, Poussin, Rembrandt, Rockwell Kent, Sophia Loren, Sophia Webster, Vivien Leigh | 8 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 26, 2015

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Posted in Anna May Wong, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Jew-hatred, Lielle Meital, Livia Yarden, Marilyn Monroe, Movies, Myrna Loy, Photography, Quotes, The Wit and Wisdom of Hollywood, True Hollywood Confessions | Also tagged anna may, Brigitte B, Clara Bow, Doris Day, Edith Head, Elizabeth Taylor, George Raft, Grace Kelly, Hedy Lamarr, Ingrid Be, Jean Harlow, John Ford, Lauren Bacall, Lee Remick, Louise Brooks, Myrna Loy, Paulette Goddard, Richard Burton, Sylvia Sidney | 12 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | April 9, 2015

Friday Photos: In Every Generation

Tweet On Passover, Jews around the world recite a passage from the Haggadah that strikes a note both poignant and defiant. In every generation they [our enemies] rise up against us to destroy us, but the Holy One Blessed Be He saves us from their hands. But Judaism does not place faith in faith alone. […]

Posted in Art, Brigitte Bardot, Friday Fotos, Holidays, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Iran, Islam, Islamic Terror, IslamoNazis, Israel, Jean Harlow, Jew-haters, Jew-hatred, Jewish Holidays, Joan Crawford, Judaism, Kim Novak, Kirk Douglas, Marilyn Monroe, Passover, Susan Hayward | Also tagged Anish Kapoor, Clyfford Still, Ethiopian Jews, Ethiopian Passover, Jews of Iran, Joan Crawford, Ma'ayan Ariel, Matzoh, Otis Kaye, Passover in Iran, Passover in Manila, The Yellow Ticket | 19 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | January 24, 2014

Teresa Wright’s Audacious Normalcy

Tweet Actress Theresa Wright (1918-2005), gained unusual clout in the early stages of her distinguished career when she insisted on a most unusual clause in her 1941 contract with Samuel Goldwyn. Goldwyn, a talented, but hard-headed Hollywood producer, desperately wanted Wright under contract, and so he swallowed his pride and allowed Wright’s clause to stand. […]

Posted in Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Teresa Wright | Also tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Ava Gardner, Dana Andrews, Glamour, Hollywood Contracts, Joseph Cotten, Rita Hayworth, Samuel Goldwyn, Shadow of A Doubt, Teresa Wright, The Best Years of Our Lives | 15 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | January 17, 2014

Barbara Stanwyck’s Secrets

Tweet The new Barbara Stanwyck biography, A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel True, 1907 – 1940 by Victoria Wilson, is, with appendix, footnotes, index and acknowledgements, over 1,000 pages long. And it is just volume one. This first, full scale bio of Barbara Stanwyck is an exhaustive (and sometimes exhausting) study of Hollywood’s greatest actress. […]

Posted in Barbara Stanwyck, Book Reviews, Books, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars | Also tagged Abortion in Hollywood, Bette Davis Joan Crawford, Clifford Odets, Elsa Lanchester, Frank Fay, George Barnes, Gloria Swanson, Grace Kelly, Joan Blondell, Judy garland, Louise Rainer, Myrna Loy, Nancy Bernard, Rita Hayworth, Victoria Wilson | 10 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | February 7, 2013

Twenty Greatest Movies of the 1950s: Ace in the Hole, The Bad and the Beautiful, Singin’ in the Rain

Tweet We continue our survey of the twenty greatest movies of the 1950s. For a complete listing of the greatest movies of the 20, 30s and 40s, click here. 4. Ace in the Hole, 1951 A hand-embroidered motto, “Tell the Truth” sits as a dusty epitaph on the newsroom wall of an inconsequential Albuquerque newspaper […]

Posted in Great Movies, Greatest Movies of the 1950s, Hollywood, Kirk Douglas | Also tagged Ace in the Hole, Billy Wilder, Gene Kelly, Jan Sterling, Singin in the Rain, The Bad and the Beautiful | 37 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | January 6, 2012

Friday Fashion: Turban Time in Hollywood

Tweet When asked to define the essence of Hollywood glamour, the multi-talented director Edmund Goulding replied: “It’s the magnetism that changes the current of every movie fan’s life and persuades a girl that she must have a dress like the one Joan Crawford wore in her last picture. It’s the mesmerism that induces a […]

Posted in Brigitte Bardot, Elizabeth Taylor, Esther Ralston, Friday Fashion, Hollywood, Hollywood Hats, Marilyn Monroe | Also tagged Hedy Lamarr, Mae Bush, Marlene Dietrich, turban | 14 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 26, 2007

Stalked

Tweet “Thing is, he’s going to kill me.” “Have you gone to the police?” “Yes, of course I have.” “And what happened?” She shakes her head from side to side, wraps her arms protectively around her chest. “I got a restraining order against Ned, that’s my ex. But you know what good that is, don’t […]

Posted in Gun Control, Weapons | Also tagged 10 Day Waiting Period, Buying Guns, Gloria Grahame, Gun Crazy, Peggy Cummins, Self-Defense, Tuesday Weld, Woman Stalked by Ex | 62 Responses

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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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