[AGL] questions about Nadine the movie

[fmaverick at austin.rr.com]

Actually, she mentioned "Do Evil Cheerfully" as the one mystery novel that she wrote, and felt she had no talent for it. She said that after that one novel, she went to a romance writers convention, heard how much money could be made, bought a bunch and read several in the hotel that night. Her five bodice rippers supported her so she could write the first "serious" novel. 
---- Kathy <kdoyle1 at austin.rr.com> wrote: 

> whoo hoo! Under lock and key!! It's got to be sizzlin!

> 

> just googled and found she did one romance  in her name called  "Do  

> Evil Cheerfully"

> 

> Here's a Tory Cates:

> Shallie had to make her way in rodeo, a man's world, and Hunt  

> McIver's help was

> invaluable to her.

> 

> But the man himself remained a mystery. Why would he help a woman  

> whose motives he didn't trust? Yet together they warmed the western  

> nights and built a dream beneath a sky as wide and beautiful as the  

> love they learned to share.

> 

> and another cover:

> 

> On Aug 3, 2009, at 9:17 AM, Fontaine Maverick wrote:

> 

> > 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 -----

> > From: Kathy

> > To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s

> > Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 9:11 AM

> > Subject: Re: [AGL] questions about Nadine the movie

> >

> > 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

> >>>

> >>

> >

> >

>