[AGL] questions about Nadine the movie

[Fontaine Maverick]

Dang, Mike, I sure don't know the answer to the question-but the Ron Mullen 
angle sure sounds plausible. I hadn't remembered this plotline, but now I 
want to re-see the fillum.
Along the same lines, I am reading Sarah Bird's outrageous, brilliant "How 
Perfect is That?". The heroine (or anti-herione) has returned to her old 
Co-op from Bird's first novel "Alamo House". The novel is replete with 
Austin culture clashes, trivia, and fictionalized Bush-family-friend 
characters. I'm loving it.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com>
To: <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 8:33 AM
Subject: [AGL] questions about Nadine the movie



> we watched Nadine the movie

> last nite. and we gotta question.

>

> the plotline of the flic involves

> secret DOT plans for a new highway which are stolen so

> as to get a jump on buying real estate next to the planned

> highway.

>

> the 1987 movie writen and directed by

> Robert Benton was dedicated

> to everyone's friend Nadine Eckhardt.

>

> was the stolen DOT highway plans

> in the movie based on the gossip

> about Mayor Ron Mullen having done just that: buying cheap

> real estate that would later front

> on the highway?

>

> on a related subject: this is the second

> movie featuring one of my roommate's

> former art studios on 6th street. There

> is Blood Simple featuring the upstairs of

> the old Craddock Furniture store, a glorious

> studio which i remember well after we

> cleared the old soda machines, popcorn

> machines, etc. to the back of the floor.

> the fake leopard skin sofa we lounged

> was actually on layaway and disappeared

> after it was finally paid for. Space is now

> owned by Ripoff Ralph Macelroy.

>

> Nadine the movie featured the stairway and upstairs of the Grove 

> Drugstore, site of another of her art studios.

>

> Hollywood is obviously on to her studios. Are there

> others out there?

> Nadine the movie also has touching views of Gelman's 6th St. Department 

> Store now but a memory

>

>