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By Robert J. Avrech | May 17, 2012

Movie Posters: Hollywood’s Golden Age

Tweet Have you looked at a movie poster recently and said to yourself: I really have to see that film. Doubtful. In the digital era movie posters are barely there, a minor and frequently mediocre—tedious star shots dominate—element in the white-noise media that is dominated by an ever-shifting social media. There was a time, however, [...]

Posted in Hollywood, Movie Posters | Also tagged Ann Blyth, Elissa Landry, Gun Crazy, He Who Gets Slapped, Joan Crawford, John Dall, John Ford, John Gilbert, John Wayne, Laurence Olivier, Lillian Gish, Lon Chaney, Lorna Doone, Madge Bellamy, Mildren Pierce, Norma Shearer, Ronald Colman, Stagecoach, The White Sister, The Yellow Ticket, Zachary Scott | 13 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | December 15, 2011

The Twenty Greatest Movies of the 1940′s: ’46-’49

Tweet We continue our series of the Twenty Greatest Movies of each decade. Here are our our picks for the last five great movies of the 1940′s. 16. Notorious, 1946. No American actor has tampered with his own charming image more successfully than Cary Grant. In Only Angels Have Wings (1939) he is the tough [...]

Posted in Great Movies, Greatest Movies of the 1940s, Hollywood | Also tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster, Cary Grant, Charles Dickens, David Lean, Great Expectations, Gun Crazy, Howard Hawks, Ingrid Bergman, Jean Simmons, Joanne Dru, John Dahl, John Wayne, Joseph H. Lewis, Montgomery Clift, Notorious, Red River, The Killers | 13 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | November 1, 2011

This Land of Film Noir

Tweet Every morning I rise at about five AM, don my sweats, hook up my iPhone’s music function and take a brisk three-mile walk. The streets of Los Angeles at this time of the morning are wet, slick from all the lawn sprinklers that explode with a fearsome hiss in the middle of the night. [...]

Posted in Hollywood, Movies | Also tagged Cornel Wilde, Double Indemnity, Film Noir, Gun Crazy, Jean Wallace, John Alton, John Dahl, Los Angeles, The Big Combo, The Killing | 30 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 26, 2007

Stalked

Tweet “Thing is, he’s going to kill me.” “Have you gone to the police?” “Yes, of course I have.” “And what happened?” She shakes her head from side to side, wraps her arms protectively around her chest. “I got a restraining order against Ned, that’s my ex. But you know what good that is, don’t [...]

Posted in Gun Control, Weapons | Also tagged 10 Day Waiting Period, Buying Guns, Gloria Grahame, Gun Crazy, Lana Turner, Self-Defense, Tuesday Weld, Woman Stalked by Ex | 62 Responses

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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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