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"A Single Man" (beware spoilers)
Ellemeno:
--- Quote from: oilgun on March 04, 2010, 03:22:57 pm ---
I just noticed that the ridiculously homophobic MPAA gave this movie an R rating!! (Unbelievable! It's PG and G here.) Do any of you actually think this is warranted? Why don't cinephiles riot in the streets!
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Hi Gil, I'm a few pages behind. I'm the mother of a 7 year old, and that is where I'm coming from when I say that an R rating seems appropriate to me. I am raising my daughter to see the nice lesbian couple who live next door to us as our great neighbors, and doing my best to have her see gay as one of the normal facets of life (and she does). The gay content of A Single Man is none of the reason I would give it an R rating. Most of the subject matter is very mature - depression, drinking, flirting, contemplation of suicide, teachers having personal relationships with students. It's a very grown up movie.
louisev:
--- Quote from: Sason on March 08, 2010, 05:34:38 pm ---I've never heard about the Suevi, had to look them up. It doesn't seem that they had anything at all to do with Sweden.
Where in Sweden is your ancestor from?
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She was my maternal great-grandmother on her father's side, named Louisa Dahl, from a place, apparently, called Dahl or Dahle. She left Europe from an unknown port, possibly a Dutch port, on the USS Rotterdam, which was one of the large international ships carrying immigrants to America during the early 20th century, in 1916, which is, curiously enough, the same ship (not necessarily the same trip, however), as my former husband's grandfather. Her genes most definitely dominate as I and my mother Louisa look very much like the portrait of Louisa Dahl. I have always wondered whether she left Europe because of anti-Jewish sentiment, since the disease I was recently diagnosed with occurs with far greater frequency among Ashkenazi Jews.
Sason:
--- Quote from: southendmd on March 08, 2010, 06:48:50 pm ---Ennis and George are genius creations.
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--- Quote from: Meryl on March 09, 2010, 12:08:34 am ---A-men. 8)
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You mean Gay-men?
;D
Sason:
--- Quote from: louisev on March 09, 2010, 11:40:12 am ---She was my maternal great-grandmother on her father's side, named Louisa Dahl, from a place, apparently, called Dahl or Dahle. She left Europe from an unknown port, possibly a Dutch port, on the USS Rotterdam, which was one of the large international ships carrying immigrants to America during the early 20th century, in 1916, which is, curiously enough, the same ship (not necessarily the same trip, however), as my former husband's grandfather. Her genes most definitely dominate as I and my mother Louisa look very much like the portrait of Louisa Dahl. I have always wondered whether she left Europe because of anti-Jewish sentiment, since the disease I was recently diagnosed with occurs with far greater frequency among Ashkenazi Jews.
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Interesting.
Dahl is a common enough Swedish name, not a Jewish one however. In those years Eastern European Jews migrated to Sweden, not from it, to escape pogroms. My great grandfather was one of them.
There could be several small villages in the country, or farms, called Dahl - or probably Dal.
Genealogical research in Sweden shouldn't be too difficult, provided you got some more details about her, since records have been thoroughly kept for hundreds of years.
louisev:
--- Quote from: Sason on March 09, 2010, 03:28:50 pm ---Interesting.
Dahl is a common enough Swedish name, not a Jewish one however. In those years Eastern European Jews migrated to Sweden, not from it, to escape pogroms. My great grandfather was one of them.
There could be several small villages in the country, or farms, called Dahl - or probably Dal.
Genealogical research in Sweden shouldn't be too difficult, provided you got some more details about her, since records have been thoroughly kept for hundreds of years.
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I would be glad to try to look it up, I do not believe that I have her birthdate however.
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