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By Robert J. Avrech | May 9, 2013

Hollywood Stars and Cars: I Drive Therefore I Am

Tweet 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. [...]

Posted in Hollywood, Stars and Cars | Also tagged Cadillac, Corvette, Douglas Fairbanks, Duesenberg, Frank Sinatra, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Jaguar, Janet Gaynor, Jr., Kim Novak, Nancy Carroll, Packard, Phantom Corsair Cord, Pierce Arrow, Richard Dix, Steve McQueen, T-Bird, Young in Heart | 20 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | December 31, 2012

Old Hollywood, New Year

Tweet Seraphic Secret works hard to favor the glass half-full view of life. When bad stuff happens, which it does all the time, we try not to plunge into a clinical depression. But let’s face it, 2012 was a difficult year for Conservatives — and for America. Obamacare has become the law of the land, [...]

Posted in Hollywood, New Years | Also tagged Barbara Kent, Bette Davis, Debbie Reynolds, Myrna Loy, Rita Hayworth, Sari Maritza, Shirley Temple | 17 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | December 28, 2012

Friday Photos: Whatever

Tweet No theme today. Just a random collection of fun photos. Enjoy!

Posted in Friday Fotos, Photography, Family, Girls Love Footwear, Photography, Los Angeles, Pico-Robertson | Also tagged Greta Garbo, Harold Lloyd, Lielle Meital, Mildred Davis | 13 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | September 28, 2012

Friday Flickers: My Life As A Mankiewicz

Tweet The son of famed writer-director Joseph L. Mankiewics, (All Abut Eve, A Letter to Three Wives, Guys and Dolls, Cleopatra) and the nephew of Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman Mankiewics, Tom Mankiewics (1942-2010) was Hollywood royalty. Humphrey Bogart gave Tom his first drink. He dined with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, and spent an evening [...]

Posted in Hollywood, Screenwriting, Tom Mankiewicz | Also tagged All About Eve, Hollywood Memoir | 12 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 4, 2012

July 4 In Hollywood

Tweet The photos seem to be from another planet, or at least a parrallel universe. It was not so long ago that Hollywood was institutionally patriotic. Studio photos always included an Independence Day shot, frequently an innocent piece of cheesecake. Because what’s more American than igniting fireworks while wearing a bathing suit. L.B. Mayer of [...]

Posted in Ava Gardner, Hollywood, Joan Crawford, July 4th, L.B. Mayer, Rita Hayworth | Also tagged Ava Gardner, Betty Boop, Joan Crawford, Liberty Bell, Madge Evans, Marian Marsh, Marion Shilling, MGM, Rita Hayworth | 7 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | April 27, 2012

Hollywood: A Dog’s Life

Tweet During Hollywood’s golden era studio photographers churned out thousands of photographs that created the iconography of glamour by which Hollywood stars were defined. There was a library of poses and props that photographers used in order to create and refine particular images. Who can forget Hurrell’s shimmering portrait of Jean Harlow in a skin-tight [...]

Posted in Friday Fotos, Hollywood | Also tagged Audrey Hepburn, Buster Keaton, Carole Lombard, Corinne Griffith, Doris Day, Hollywood Glamour, Mae Clarke, Margaret Sullavan, Margaret Sullivan, Pola Negri, Stars and their pets | 8 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | March 29, 2012

Passover Wine According to Alice ‘Naked Wine’ Feiring

Tweet Passover is almost here. We’re scrubbing our houses, changing dishes and silverware, purchasing tons of kosher for Passover food, shopping for new clothing, and many are wondering which wines to buy for the Passover seders in which we are commanded to drink four cups of wine. Medical Interpolation: Seraphic Secret does not drink wine, [...]

Posted in Passover, Wine | Also tagged Alice Feiring, Benyamin Cantz, Four Gates, Jean Harlow, Kosher Wine, Naked Wine, Passover wine, The Battle for Wine and Love, Wallace Ford, William Powell, wine critics | 15 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | February 17, 2012

Friday Fashion: The Past Is The Present

Tweet 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 [...]

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, Jean Harlow, Kim Novak, Lyn Devon, Marlene Dietrich, Milly, Modest Fashion, Orry-Kelly, Ralph Lauren, Suzanne Pleshette, Tippi Hedrin, Victoria Beckham | 15 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | February 3, 2012

Friday Fotos: Hollywood Stars and Their Cars

Tweet 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 [...]

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

By Robert J. Avrech | July 28, 2011

Hollywood: I Drive Therefore I am… Free

Tweet As noted in my last post about Hollywood stars and their cars, automobiles represent freedom. You climb into a car and go whenever and wherever you want. The car is modern man’s most potent path and symbol of liberty. Contrast cars with trains. Trains and subways are an expression of the collective. Individual identity [...]

Posted in Hollywood | Also tagged Classic Autos, Errol Flynn, Hollywood History, Jimmy Stewart, Liberal Facism, Marlene Dietrich, Rita Hayworth, Robert Montgomery | 22 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 15, 2011

In Search of Hollywood’s Sole

Tweet Hollywood glamour is most often, and correctly, associated with picture perfect faces, figures, magical charisma, and the stunning costumes worn by stars of the silver screen during Hollywood’s Golden Age. But then, as now, footwear was a vital component of the machinery of glamour.

Posted in Friday Footwear, Hollywood | Also tagged Audrey Hepburn, Brigitte Bardot, Classic Hollywood, Glamour, Marlene Dietrich, Mary Pickford, Paulette Goddard, Salvatore Ferragamo, Tony Curtis | 7 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 17, 2011

Hollywood For Sale

Tweet Tweet Debbie Reynolds The Auction tomorrow, June 18, 2011, is your chance to own a slice of Hollywood history. Hollywood’s Golden Age is over. The great stars exist only as silvery shadows on the screen. But some of the most important movie costumes and props, collected and preserved by actress Debbie Reynolds, [...]

Posted in Debbie Reynolds | Also tagged Auction, Audrey Hepburn, Brigitte Bardot, Charlie Chaplin, Classic Movies, Costume Design, Elizabeth Taylor, Hollywood, Walter Plunkett | 11 Responses

How I Married Karen

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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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