[AGL] questions about Nadine the movie

[Kathy]

I read that book too, Fontaine, she sure is outrageous and funny.

By the way, Mike, Ralph McElroy died a couple of  years ago,

Date: July 28, 2007 Publication: Austin American-Statesman (TX) Page  
Number: E04 ${ Word Count: 3204

Ralph Lee McElroy

Ralph Lee McElroy, age 64, of Austin, passed away on July 26th, 2007.  
Ralph was born on August 28, 1942 in St. Louis, MO to Homer and  
Eleanor McElroy. His family moved to Corpus Christi in 1952, where he  
attended public school. He moved to Austin in 1962 to attend The  
University of Texas, receiving undergraduate and graduate degrees.  
After extensive travels and studies in Europe, he became an  
accomplished linguist, returning to Austin in 1968 to start the Ralph  
McElroy......

On Aug 3, 2009, at 8:45 AM, Fontaine Maverick wrote:


> 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

>>

>


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