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Donleavy's central character is Cornelius Christian, born in Brooklyn, reared in the Bronx, and returned from the continent, sporting cultured manners and accent. With good looks, and erratic opportunism, Christian is the type of figure that the image of cold, yet capricious New York is built around. He communicates by shock. Flattering several matrons in an elevator by immediately identifying them as members of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Christian informs them that one of them has certainly stepped in dog excrement. In the park, he systematically picks out obese women to ask them if they want...
Treacle Christian (the name alone too obviously signals Donleavy's intent) is a penniless, Bronx-born expatriate who returns to New York from Europe where he has been highly schooled and polished. The inadvisability of his return is made quite evident at the beginning when his wife, a delicate hot-house beauty, dies during the ocean crossing. The implication is that rare and fine things do not travel well, especially to New York...
Garcia, who came to Harvard on full scholarship from the South Bronx, is currently on the board of three social service organizations for Spanish speaking people in Cambridge...
Before Actress Valerie Harper got the part of Rhoda Morgenstern-Mary Tyler Moore's scatty Bronx Jewish neighbor-her agent warned her that she was really not right for the role. Neither Jewish nor a native New Yorker, Valerie had little in common with Rhoda except the soft, lumpy look of a girl with a weakness for cheesecake, cookies, cupcakes and brownies. At rehearsals, Valerie got few laughs in the role...
...took Natherlene Bolden, a Bronx Community College scholarship student, almost four months to find a temporary job answering a telephone in a carpet showroom for $2 an hour...