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.
Annual Ariel Avrech
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)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)
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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions
Once again Friday Photos appears on Wednesday due to the last days of Sukkot which begin tonight and then run into Shabbat. Enjoy!
Posted in Alfred Hitchcock, Betty Grable, Friday Fotos, Hollywood, Hollywood Still Photography, Jewish Holidays, Judaism, Movie Posters, Movies, Painting, Photography, Quotes, True Hollywood Confessions, Wisdom of Hollywood Screenwriters
Also tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Allan Grant, Alternative Movie Posters, Bernard Picart, Betty Grable, Buster Keaton, Edward Hopper, Efrat, Eileen Gray, Eugene Robert Richee, Gail Patrick, Gene Kelly, Gerrit Dou, Hendrick Terbrugghen, Hoshana Rabbah, Morgan Auto, Picasso, Preston Sturges, Richard Avedon, Richard Burton, Rick McGinnis, Robert Doisneau, Simchat Torah, Sukkot, To Catch a Thief
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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions, How to be Beautiful
Posted in Art, Fashion, Friday Footwear, Greta Garbo, Hedy Lamarr, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich, Self-Portrait, True Hollywood Confessions
Also tagged Angelika Kauffmann, Anna Waser, Charlie Chaplin, Clifford Still, Elisabetta Sirani, Eugene Robert Richee, Francesco del Cairo, George Dambier, Giovanni Fattori, Greta Garbo, Helen Frankenthaler, Ilse Bing, Irving Penn, Lotte Beese, Makeup in Hollywood, Marilyn Monroe, Self-Portrait, shoes, Steve Cohn, Vivian Maier
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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, Lana Turner, Lauren Bacall, Lee Remick, Myrna Loy, Paulette Goddard, Richard Burton, Sylvia Sidney
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Classic Hollywood Passport Photos
If you want to torture yourself, take a look at your passport. Chances are you look pretty awful. With flat lighting, a grim full frontal pose, and that look of bafflement, your photo probably looks like a mug shot. Are glamorous Hollywood stars just like us when they submit to the artless lens of the […]
Posted in Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography
Also tagged Anna May Wong, Beauty, Glamour, Greta Garbo, Katherine Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Passport Photos of the Stars
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Hollywood Hair: Leda Styled By Leonardo da Vinci
Years ago, on Shabbos evenings, when our children were little, I would frequently grab an art book, sit in my chair, and one of the kids would climb into my lap. We’d turn the pages, look at the pictures, and make up stories about the figures in the paintings. Ariel, Z’TL, was intrigued by the […]
Posted in Art, Ava Gardner, Hollywood, Jean Harlow, Leonardo da Vinci
Also tagged Botticelli, Claudette Colbert, Grace Kelly, Greek Mythology, Hairdresser, Helen of Troy, Jan Steen, Jean Harlow, Joan Crawford, Leda, Leda and the Swan, Lucille Ball, Marilyn Monroe, Norma Shearer, Peter de Hooch, Polydeuces, Raphael, Rembrandt, Sydney Guilaroff, Titian, Vermeer, Vivien Leigh, Zeus
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How Hollywood Bobbed America’s Hair
Hollywood is the greatest propaganda machine the world has ever known. Audiences used to sit in a velvety dark theater, drinking in the silver images projected on the screen. Actors were larger than life, and the manner in which they were styled — wardrobe, makeup, and hair — influenced mass audiences the world over. In […]
Posted in Gloria Swanson, Hollywood, Hollywood Hair
Also tagged Betty Compton, Colleen Moore, Dorothy Seastrom, Flappers, Hair Styles, Mae Busch, The Bob
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A Bookish Chanukah and Christmas
I love books. Casa Avrech is stuffed with bookshelves that are, of course, stuffed with books. As much as Seraphic Secret admires and makes use of eBooks via Kindle and the iPad, there is still something about paper, binding, and the fragrance of a freshly opened page that is intoxicating. Books are the perfect holiday […]
Posted in Books, Chanukah, Edith Head
Also tagged Edith Head, In the Shadow of Greatness, Laura Moriarty, The Chaperone
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