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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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“You get tough in this business, until you get big enough to hire people to get tough for you.”
—Natalie Wood, posing on her 1956 Ford Thunderbird

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“You have to be hard-boiled to get through life whether you’re a shopgirl, a debutante or a movie star.”
—Jean Harlow

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“Most of the good things in pictures happen by accident.”
—John Ford
Photo by Richard Avedon, Bel Air, California, 1972

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“I turned my hair dark and have received much better parts ever since… I was sometimes greeted as Miss Lamarr in dimly lit restaurants. Personally, I liked the idea of escaping from all that bland, blonde innocence and thought the whole thing was very funny, but I don’t think Hedy found the comparisons very amusing.“
—Joan Bennett

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Friday Photos: Just Photos

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Admit it, when you think of betty Grable you are thinking: legs. But Eugene-Robert Richee's 1930s portrait of Grable goes beyond the obvious.
Admit it, when you think Betty Grable you are thinking legs. But Eugene-Robert Richee’s 1930s portrait of Grable goes beyond the obvious.

No commentary today.

No rants about politics and culture.

I am drained.

Here are some random pictures that will, hopefully, enliven a darkling plain.

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