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

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“Why, Mr. Goldfish, if my career depends on hiding the fact that I was born a Jew, I’d rather not have one.” — Carmel Myers‘ response to Samuel Goldwyn (real name Goldfish) after he suggested that she change her name because it sounded “too Jewish.” I write about the Rabbi’s beautiful daughter, here.

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New Years 2020 Hollywood Flashback

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Here are some classic Hollywood New Years images.

Betty Grable and her, um, legs help usher in a new year.

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New Years 2019

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Here are some classic Hollywood New Years images.

Betty Grable and her, um, legs help usher in a new year.

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions, Passover 2018

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“Between pictures I go away. I think that is the best way to achieve happiness in Hollywood, the only way to keep one’s perspective. If you stay too close to the motion picture colony you lose your sense of values.”
— Helen Twelvetrees

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New Year, Old Hollywood: 2018

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Livia Yarden wishes all our readers a Happy New Year.

After one year of the Trump presidency we are hopeful and optimistic.

Obama’s JV team, ISIS, has been nearly wiped out. Neil Gorsuch sits on the Supreme Court. The Keystone pipeline is, at last, open. The individual mandate is gone. Which spells the beginning off the end for Obamacare. More and more federal lands are being privatized. Trump is rolling back government regulations at a steady clip. The economy is humming along, and the GDP promises to continue rising. Unemployment is at a record low. The DJIA and the NASDAQ are at record highs.

Here’s a simple truth: the more capital in the private sector, the better for all American citizens, which then translates into growth for the world economy.

Trump is doing what he can with an impossible situation in North Korea. As for Iran, we are learning more about Obama’s duplicity regarding the Iranian deal, best summed up in one infamous word: appeasement.

Meanwhile, Israel and America have reached a secret security agreement regarding nuclear Iran. It’s about time.

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