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By Robert J. Avrech | September 14, 2016

The Ten Greatest War Movies of All Time

Tweet Movies about war are ideally suited to the kinetic energy of motion pictures. The eternal themes of love, courage, and loyalty are given full range in the theater of war. Readers will immediately notice the absence of silent films and movies from Hollywood’s golden age. Yes, in spite of our love of classic cinema […]

Posted in Hollywood, War, War Movies, World War II, World War III, Zulu | Also tagged Come and See, Duck You Sucker, Gettysburg, Lawrence of Arabia, Patton, Ride With The Devil, Seven Samurai, The Lighthorsemen, The Winter War, Zulu | 23 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, Lana Turner, Mark Rothko, Still Photography, Vermeer, William Powell | 17 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, Lana Turner, Lauren Bacall, Lee Remick, Louise Brooks, Paulette Goddard, Richard Burton, Sylvia Sidney | 12 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | May 29, 2015

Friday Photos: Democrat Privilege

Tweet Pop quiz: Why isn’t the Justice Department investigating the Clinton money laundering operation? Any other so-called charity would be under multiple federal and state indictments. Hillary Clinton had her own private server when she was Secretary of State. This is indefensible. She destroyed 30,000 emails? Does anyone believe that all these emails were about […]

Posted in Anna May Wong, Art, Friday Fotos, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Judaism, Marilyn Monroe | Also tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Ancient Judaica, Anish Kapoor, Anne Francis, Audrey Hepburn, Baseball, Beechnut Gum, Cary Grant, Craig Kneidler, Craig Kreindler, Gene Tierney, James Nares, Lauren Bacall, Livia Yarden, Lou Gherig, Ma'ayan Ariel, Matisse, Modigliani, Sidney Lumet | 11 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | May 8, 2015

Friday Photos: Everything But the Kitchen Sink

Tweet Baltimore. Garland, Texas. Iran. Yemen. ObamaCare. Iraq. Syria. Shia. Sunni. Clinton Cash. IslamoNazis. IRS. Benghazi. Lois Lerner. Thug. Federal Deficit. Islamic State. Hillary. Server. Delete 30,000 emails. War on police. Minimum wage. Mohammed cartoons. Racist. Transgender. Income inequality. BDS. Beheadings. Chemical weapons. Iranian nukes… How about some pictures to help set aside—at least for […]

Posted in Anna May Wong, Art, Bette Davis, Brigitte Bardot, Clara Bow, Eve Arden, Friday Fotos, Hollywood Cars, Marlene Dietrich, Myrna Loy, Painting, Photography, Vertigo | Also tagged Ballet, Bette Davis, Clara Bow, Clyfford Still, Dancing Lady, Degas, Eve Arden, James Nares, Jane Russell, John Singer Sargent, Kim Novak, Livia Yarden, Mark Rothko, Ted Allan, Vertigo, Whistler | 8 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | April 3, 2015

Friday Photos: Passover, Time to Remember the Future

Tweet Jewish holidays do not simply recall the past. Jewish holidays are cautionary tales for all time. They remind us that Jewish history repeats itself with terrible constancy. The Jewish people introduced ethical monotheism to the world — and for this gift the world has never forgiven us. Thus, we are despised and demonized.

Posted in Ariel Sharon, Art, Edward Hopper, Friday Fotos, Holidays, Hollywood, Hollywood Cars, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Iran, Israel, Judaism, Obama Watch, Passover | Also tagged Abba Kovner, Audrey Hepburn, Edward Hopper, Entebbe, Jewish partisans, Lizabeth Scott, Sandy Koufax, Shalom of Safed, Theda Bara, Vermeer, Yom Kippur War, Yul Brenner | 11 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | March 26, 2015

Reading Lunch Under the California Sun

Tweet I usually read several few books at a time. I think I have a touch of ADD. Or maybe I’m just intellectually restless. Because we live in Los Angeles where the sun shines almost every day of the week, I often sit in Casa Avrech’s patio eating lunch and reading. Here’s a sample of […]

Posted in Book Reviews, Books | Also tagged Brigitte Bardot, Ian Kershaw, Jan Vermeer, Jews in Israel During Talmudic Age, John Kobal, Leningrad | 18 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, Lana Turner, Louise Rainer, Nancy Bernard, Rita Hayworth, Victoria Wilson | 10 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 11, 2013

Hollywood: Cheek to Cheek

Tweet Commenting on yesterday’s Cheek to Cheek post, a faithful Seraphic Secret reader privately wrote that the lovely pictures saddened her. “Romance is gone,” she mused. “There are no contemporary Hollywood stars who can be photographed with such loving conviction.” Very true. Ever since movie stars first sat down with Johnny Carson and revealed themselves […]

Posted in Hollywood Cheek to Cheek | Also tagged Carole Lombard, Cary Grant, Clark Gable, John Barrymore, Laurence Olivier, Marilyn Monroe, Marion Davies | 13 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 10, 2013

Hollywood: Cheek to Cheek

Tweet During Hollywood’s Golden Age, studio photographers—usually anonymous—shot millions of photos of stars, starlets, and contract players. The photos were sent out to movie magazines, theaters, distributors, and movie fans who wrote to their favorite stars requesting autographed photos. Several genres of photos became the bread and butter of the overworked and immensely gifted photographers. […]

Posted in Hollywood, Hollywood Cheek to Cheek | Also tagged Ben Lyon, Clark Gable, Desire, East of Eden, Eugene Robert Richee, Gary Cooper, James Dean, Jean Harlow, Joan Crawford, Julie Harris, Marlene Dietrich, Mary Brian, William Powell | 13 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, Marilyn Monroe, Rita Hayworth, Sari Maritza, Shirley Temple | 18 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | September 13, 2012

Ten Greatest War Movies of All Time

Tweet Last week, Seraphic Secret picked the Ten Greatest Movies of all time. Our ruthlessly reductive list eliminated dozens of great movies that we love. Ultimately, we decided on movies that we return to over and over again because there is always something new to see and because they never fail to entertain and astonish. […]

Posted in Finland, Great Movies, Ten Greatest War Movies, War Movies | Also tagged Akira Kurosawa, Come and See, David Lean, Duck, Duck You Sucker, Ennio Morricone, Finnish Movies, George C. Scott, Gettysburg, James Coburn, Jeff Daniels, Lawrence of Arabia, Malik Zulu Shabazz, Michael Caine, Patton, Rod Steiger, Sergio Leone, Seven Samurai, The Lighthorsemen, Winter War | 27 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | January 13, 2012

Friday Fashion: Hollywood on Parade

Tweet Seraphic Secret was glancing through the latest issue of the “National Enquirer” the other day—how else am I going to learn about what’s going on in Hollywood?—and was horrified to discover that this tabloid has a rather unhealthy fixation on celebrity photos that focus on cellulite, disheveled stars in flip-flops taking out the garbage, […]

Posted in Friday Fashion, Hollywood | Also tagged Fred Astaire, Glamour, Hedy Lamarr, Hollywood's Golden Age, In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust, Mervyn LeRoy, National Enquirer, Random Harvest, Shabbat, Susan Peters | 14 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | December 30, 2011

Top 10 of 2011

Tweet If you’re as deeply involved in politics as is Seraphic Secret, if you’re a lover of Zion, as is Seraphic Secret, if you’re terrified of another four years of Obama, as is Seraphic Secret, well, you tend to walk around with a black cloud hovering over your head. But compiling a Ten Best List, […]

Posted in 2011 Top Ten | Also tagged Downton Abbey, Emily W. Leider, Flipboard, IDF Red Para Boots, Karl Marlantes, Killing Bin Laden, Lielle Meital, Ma'ayan Ariel, Matterhorn, Monalisa, Navy Seals, Niall Ferguson, Shabbat, The Artist, The Only Good Girl in Hollywood, The West and the Rest | 9 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | August 26, 2011

Friday Fotos: Mirror, Mirror

Tweet The business of creating glamour was hard work. And the Hollywood still photographers employed by the studios did a great deal of the heavy lifting. Thorugh their craft they helped manufacture stars by producing shimmering, glamorous images that hinted at beings who were human gods. Who has not seen the stunning George Hurrell photo […]

Posted in Brigitte Bardot, Hollywood Mirror | Also tagged Barbara Stanwyck, Bette Davis, Brigitte Bardot, Classic Hollywood, Glamour, Helen Twelvetrees, Hurrell, Lillian Gish | 4 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 21, 2011

American Showgirl Murdered in Gethsemane

Tweet It reads like the plot of a movie. A young, beautiful, restless American showgirl travels to the exotic east where she finds intrigue, romance—and a violent death. As reported on November 3, 1933 in the Los Angeles Times: (AP) Jerusalem, November 3 —Joan Winters, described as an American professional dancer, and an Indian Moslem […]

Posted in Israel, Joan Winters | Also tagged Arab Riots, Gethsemane, Joan Winters, Murder | 20 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | November 24, 2010

The Twenty Greatest Movies of the 1930s: ’30-’33

Tweet Clark Gable, the greatest male star of the 1930’s. Gable was glamorous yet rugged, a man’s man. Women wanted him and men wanted to be him. We continue our decade-by-decade survey of The Twenty Greatest Movies. Last week we examined the 1920’s, the era of silent movies where a particular American vitality found expression […]

Posted in Great Movies, Greatest Movies of the 1930s, Twenty Greatest Movies of the 1930s | Also tagged Adrian, Bed of Roses, Ben Hecht, Bombshell, Charlie Chaplin, City Lights, Clara Bow, Clark Gable, Constance Bennett, Duck Soup, Ernst Lubitch, Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast, Herbert Marshall, Jackie Cooper, Jean Harlow, Joan Crawford, Joel McCrea, John Barrymore, John Lee Mahin, Josef von Sternberg, Jules Furthman, Kay Francis, Marlene Dietrich, Marx Brothers, Mary Astor, Miriam Hopkins, Paul Bern, Pert Kelton, Possessed, Red Dust, Samson Raphelson, Shanghai Express, The Champ, Topaze, Troble in Paradise, Victor Fleming, Wallace Beery | 17 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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