Quackser Fortune has a Cousin in the Bronx

[electionlit]

A film made in Dublin in the early 70s starring Gene Wilder and Margot Kidder (of Lois Lane Fame). There are a few clips of it up on youtube (I have a copy of the dvd myself too).
This Clip has a nice drive around Killiney /Dalkey area with some views of Dublin at the time.


There is a series of 6 of them uploaded as far as I can see.

[jordo]

Yeah Electionlit, saw that film and can still remember pats of it. In particular I can remember him brushing his hair with the'family' toothbrush, the place was in raptures and I couldn't see the funny side but there you go

[Strum]

Nice legs Margot.

What a great spot though for film makers. I've seen it in the recent "Once" and "Da" I'm sure there's plenty more.
Thanks for the upload.

[grammer]

So has Dana --

could IT be "another one bites the dust"


todays Irish Times

Dana became US citizen before 1997 election bid
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DANA ROSEMARY Scallon became a US citizen prior to putting her name forward for the 1997 presidential election but a decision was taken not to inform the electorate, her sister told a court in Iowa in 2008.

Ms Scallon, who is again a candidate for the presidency, confirmed yesterday that she was a US citizen but said she certainly had not tried to keep the fact secret. “I don’t see it as any problem at all,” she said.

Her sister Susan Stein gave evidence in 2008 that she discussed her sister’s citizenship with Dana’s husband, Damien Scallon, and Dana’s brother and adviser in her current presidential campaign, John Brown, during the presidential contest in 1997.

“When she ran for the presidential election in Ireland, John and Damien and I had a meeting,” Ms Stein told the US court. “She had just acquired her American citizenship, at the same time she was running for president of a foreign country, and the decision was made that it wouldn’t look very good if the people of Ireland knew she was an American citizen.”

Ms Scallon said yesterday her husband and her brother could not remember the conversation. She had not sought to keep her US citizenship secret. “Why would I? Wasn’t de Valera ?”

She said that when going through the citizenship process she had been assured she could retain her Irish citizenship and that she wouldn’t have become a US citizen otherwise. “I don’t vote there. I only vote here.”

People becoming naturalised US citizens take an oath renouncing their allegiance to all other states. Ms Scallon said she could not recall taking the oath. She said that being a US citizen did not bar her from becoming president of Ireland.

Ms Stein, who lives in Iowa but came to Ireland for her sister’s 1997 election campaign, made her comments during a bitter row over the ownership of some of Dana’s religious recordings.

Ms Scallon said her sister’s comments were made in the context of a family dispute in which each side put forward its case. The sides reached an agreement in 2009 and it was a condition that they would not comment further, she said.

In his ruling in the dispute, Iowa judge Charles Wolle found that none of the witnesses in the case, who included Dana, spoke “only the truth” when giving their sworn testimony. He said both Dana and her sister had “convenient memories to some extent”. Ms Scallon said yesterday the judge had made comments about everyone and “that’s a judge’s prerogative”.

[grammer]

THE US OATH OF ALLEGIANCE: WHAT IT SAYS


This is the oath of allegiance taken by those who become citizens of the US

I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God.

[Strum]

She's a traitor!

[Holla]

All kinds of everything

[Strum]

I spent two hours with her once. Won't go into details but she is a pretentious plank. No personality.

[johndle]

Hope you got your Money back

[Micheál]

A funny thing about that film, Once is that your man and the mot are pictured on a motorbike on the Vico road. But, relative to where the Sugarloaf is in the picture, the sea is on the wrong side. Now if , for some artistic purpose they swapped around the 'reel' they did a good job because, if I recall correctly, the reg plate on the bike was the right way round.

[Micheál]

1:20 into this clip . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mlqzejxa9U8&feature=related

does this make me the saddest anorak in the forum?

M.

[Strum]

does this make me the saddest anorak in the forum?

Nah Michael. It weas a great Film.

[johndle]

Theres a few more Sadder than You

[Strum]

Yeah you're right about the reverse.

IS THAT JOHNDLE?

[grammer]

No its dana

[*stargazer*]

An Ardmore movie but before I worked there. Very funny film, rented out the DVD to show my mother, thought she might enjoy it. Then I said 'Remember when we had THE COMB and THE TOOTHBRUSH and they could never be found'. Her reply 'Yis did NOT, you all had your own combs and toothbrushes'. Ye, Mam, and we had real toothpaste too, so what was that saucer of breadsoda doing in the bathroom? And the newspaper on string, and the REAL toilet paper that came out when there were visitors which we were told not to use on peril of our lives. OMG, she will probably come back and haunt me tonight. Anyone remember 'Bronco' toilet paper, impossible to get a clean sweep with that stuff...

[grammer]

Hiya stargazer -
long time no post-
hope all is well with you -

yeh I remember "Brono" toilet paper -it was made over in Ashgrove in the 60s/early 70s -
latpack and rolls -
manys the thin person male and female went home in the evenings from work -somehow after putting on a lot of midriff weight if you get my drift-

[Denis Cromie]

Nice to hear from you Stargazer. I Remember the Bronco well and also the newspaper. We were recycling long before the Green Party was founded.