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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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“I was never beautiful like Miss Hayworth or Miss Lamarr. I was known as ‘the little brown wren’. Who’d want to get me at the end of the picture? I thought I was the plainest, most unattractive thing ever, and glamour was something I felt was far beyond my grasp. But—and isn’t it funny?—now when I look at my old movies I think I was the most gorgeous creature—simply divine!”
—Bette Davis, 1973

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John Wayne Casts a Giant Shadow

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John Wayne and Kirk Douglas in “Cast a Giant Shadow”.
John Wayne and Kirk Douglas in “Cast a Giant Shadow”

John Wayne’s commitment to Conservative values cemented his support of Israel.

Indeed, there was a time when even Hollywood liberals supported Israel publicly, and through generous charitable contributions.  Tragically, classic liberalism is dead, replaced by a postmodern Democrat party—progressivism—that is radically left and infused with the classic Jew-hatred of Marxist-Lenninism.

In Scott Eyman’s compulsively readable biography of John Wayne, we glimpse Wayne’s activism on behalf of the Jewish state.

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