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Crossing Delancey on TCM NOW, (Original Post) elleng Oct 21 OP
Love this movie. Blue Dawn Oct 21 #1
As a jewish New Yorker, I found that movie ridiculous. The grandmother was marybourg Oct 22 #2
I am also a Jewish New Yorker. elleng Oct 22 #3
I love that movie too BonnieJW Oct 22 #4
I grew up in those projects on Delancey that were used in the film jg10003 Oct 22 #5
Couple yentas in my family, elleng Oct 22 #6

marybourg

(13,201 posts)
2. As a jewish New Yorker, I found that movie ridiculous. The grandmother was
Tue Oct 22, 2024, 12:23 AM
Oct 22

a caricature of a caricature. The only person I found believable was the pickle salesman.

jg10003

(1,029 posts)
5. I grew up in those projects on Delancey that were used in the film
Tue Oct 22, 2024, 05:10 PM
Oct 22

The movie exaggerated a bit, but I knew a lot of yentas, including my own. I miss them and the home made gefilte fish.

elleng

(136,595 posts)
6. Couple yentas in my family,
Tue Oct 22, 2024, 05:31 PM
Oct 22

and BEST gefilte!!!

I grew up on Clinton Ave near Ft. Greene and Myrtle, NOT Delancey.

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