Tag Archives: Rear Window

By Robert J. Avrech | January 15, 2016

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Tweet In the mid-1930’s Kay Francis was Warner Brothers’ biggest star and one of the highest paid people in the US.

Posted in Alfred Hitchcock, Friday Fotos, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Movie Posters, Painting, True Hollywood Confessions | Also tagged André Kertész, Audrey Hepburn, Brigitte Bardot, Countess Uta, Eiffel Tower, Ellsworth Kelly, Francesco d'Ubertino Verdi, Grace Kelly, Isabella de’ Medici, Kay Francis, Kees Van Dongen, Maroussia Podkosova, Nina Leen, One Way Passage, Paris, Richard Diebenkorn, Romy Schneider, Sir William Rothenstein, Snow White, Tobi Kahn | 11 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 12, 2015

Friday Photos: There Ought To Be a Law

Posted in Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Family, Grace Kelly, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Hollywood: Then and Now, Jean Harlow, Marilyn Monroe, Myrna Loy, Rudolph Valentino | Also tagged Alice Terry, Allan Dwan, Anna Christie, Anthony Perkins, Bernard Herrmann, Blonde Venus, Busby Berkeley, Dorothy Dandridge, Douglas Fairbanks, Exodus, Garbo, Grace Kelly, Herbert Brenon, Hollywood, Jeanne Eagels, Jimmy Stewart, Joanne Woodward, Last Summer, Lielle Meital, Ma'ayan Ariel, Mervyn LeRoy, Orson Welles, Paul Newman, Peter Pan, Red Dust, Robin Hood ('22), Suddenly, Sylvia Sidney, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Golem, The Letter, The Trial, Theda Bara | 7 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | November 8, 2013

Friday Photos: Totally Random

Tweet Usually, we publish photos that have a central theme. Not today. We’re feeling a bit scattered. Perhaps we’re spooked by ObamaCare, by what’s happening to this country. We are watching a national calamity unfold in slow motion, and we are helpless to stop it. In any case, here are a few photos, most taken […]

Posted in Alfred Hitchcock, Art, Friday Fotos, Photography, Los Angeles, Pico-Robertson, Photography, Signs, Vertigo | Also tagged Ann Margaret, Ariel Chaim, Ashkenazic traditon, Grace Kelly, Jimmy Stewart, Pico Boulevard, Sephardic tradition, Tefillin | 9 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | February 21, 2013

Twenty Greatest Movies of the 1950s: Rear Window, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Seven Samurai

Tweet We continue our survey of the twenty greatest movies of the 1950s. For a complete listing of the greatest movies of the 20, 30s and 40s, click here. 10. Rear Window, 1954 Photographer L.B. “Jeff” Jefferies (James Stewart) breaks his legs while photographing a car racing accident. Now, he is confined in his Greenwich […]

Posted in Alfred Hitchcock, Great Movies, Greatest Movies of the 1950s, Hollywood, Movies | Also tagged Akira Kurosawa, Alfred Hitchcock, Grace Kelly, Jimmy Stewart, Michael Kidd, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Seven Samurai, Stanley Donen | 32 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | September 6, 2012

Ten Greatest Movies Ever Made

Tweet Every ten years, Sight & Sound magazine, a British publication devoted to the — cue cultured BBC accent — Art of Cinema, surveys some 1,000 critics, directors and know-it-all yentas, most of whom I’ve never heard, asking them to list the ten greatest movies in the known universe. Here’s the survey. For the past […]

Posted in Great Movies, Ten Greatest Movies | Also tagged Citizen Kane, Double Indemnity, Gun Crazy, His Girl Friday, Seven Samurai, Show People, Sight & Sound, The Awful Truth, The Freshman, The Lady Eve, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Vertigo | 52 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 8, 2011

Bag of Tricks

Tweet In Rear Window, 1954, Grace Kelly’s elegant Mark Cross bag emerges as something of a major character, a twin symbol of desire—Kelly cooly snaps opens the bag, unfurling a fetching neglige—and the domesticity Jimmy Stewart finds so intimidating. Women’s handbags are more than repositories of oh-so-necessary possessions but a reflection of a woman’s priorities […]

Posted in Friday Fashion, Handbags | Also tagged Celine, Fendi, Glamour, Grace Kelly, Hermes, Jill Sander, Jimmy Stewart, Karen, Klein Tool Bag, Mark Cross, Movies, Shabbat, Vuitton | 10 Responses

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.
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Thirteenth: May 22, 2016
Ben Shapiro: "How You Can Save Israel"

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Twelfth: June 7, 2015
Larry Elder: "The New Black Anti-Semitism"

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Eleventh: June 8, 2014
Michael Medved: "Shifting Alliances: Why Liberals No Longer Reliably Support Israel — And Conservatives Do." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 97MB)

Tenth: June 9, 2013
David Horowitz: "The War Against Judaism on the University Campus." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 16MB)

Ninth: June 3, 2012
Joel B. Pollak: "The Mainstream Media's Betrayal of Israel." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 15MB)

Eighth: June 5, 2011
Yossi Klein Halevi: "What is Expected of a Survivor People: Lessons My Father Taught Me." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 18MB)

Seventh: June 13, 2010
Dennis Prager: "Happiness is a Mitzvah, Not an Emotion." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 80MB)

Sixth: June 21, 2009
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky: "Conformity in Jewish Life: Vice, Virtue or Affectation?" Blog Post | Audio (mp3 64MB)

Fifth: June 15, 2008
Rabbi Dr. Gil S. Perl: "What Was the Rosh Yeshiva Reading: Intellectual Openness in 19th Century Lithuania." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 70MB)
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