[AGL] questions about Nadine the movie

[Fontaine Maverick]

I saw an interview with Bird yesterday, and was reminded how much I liked the first book, so went to the liberry and grabbed the fifth novel - can't hardly put it down! Bird was funny in a caustic sort of way. 
The interviewer mentioned (and Bird embarrassedly admitted) that she wrote five Romance Novels! Under the pseudonym Tory Cates, the APL did not have ANY of them, but one was at the Austin History Center - under lock and key because of its "adult" nature. I have GOT to check that out. 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
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  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>
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    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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