Alpine is the location of the Sonic Drive-In scene in the movie "Fandango" 1985 with Kevin Costner
Schmitz is currently the weekly columnist of The Weekly Ketchup for Rotten Tomatoes and a contributing columnist for Fandango.
She later left television presenting to return radio presenting, co-presenting Fandango with Ray D'Arcy on RTÉ Radio 1.
Fandango has promoted many then up-and-coming bands such as The Killers, Arctic Monkeys, Keane, Death Cab For Cutie, Kaiser Chiefs, Bloc Party, Razorlight, and The Polyphonic Spree.
Fandango also featured Joe Lynn Turner who later went on to front Rainbow, and Deep Purple.
He has made various documentaries among which When Italy was not a poor country, about Italy in the 1960s narrated by Joris Ivens and Scusi, dov'è il Nord Est? produced by Fandango and On Line Productions for Arte (broadcast as Succes à l'italienne) and broadcast in Italy by Tele+.
A backup band is hired and, joined by Margaret’s boyfriend John Ford (Simon Keogh) and his friend Sean Flanagan (Domhnall Gleeson), Diogo and The Fandango’s begin a tour of Ireland’s graveyards and other lesser-known legendary venues including Ballymore Eustace, Roscommon, Strokestown, Ballaghderreen, Ballagh and Westport.