Fort Worth Star-Telegram from Fort Worth, Texas • 26

6-C Fort Worn gTAR-TELIGRAV Friday Evening December 26 1969 CJQrc QHQrjicaGi tin I IBM TOMililil il 11 OPEN 11:45 PE 8 6331 AMPLE FREE PARKING 2-1 st RUNS BOTH IN COLOR 'YELLOW BIRD' DOOM OPEN-1J30 O00 OPtN-TI 00 fat 12 45 1 30 4 20 0 10 00 9 30 fe0 00 2 0 4 2 4 00 DOOM OPEN I 00 7 20 fo'j 2 CO 3 55 5 50 7 45 9 40 (frr comedy 'ARF a i ALL (H-iore (cp i A Pius 'SNOWJOB' WALT I) ISM SPOTacular cartoon feature OPEN ALL NITE ADULT SHOCKER SOUND A COLOR ADULTS ONLY RATED mi "WHATEVER HAPPENED TO stud flame?" PLU5-Sj' UNDEGOUND SHOTS IN COLO IUNCUT) ERE! WITH ESCORT PHONE 332 0378 GEORGE SEG4L ROpERI VAUGHN BRIDGE AT REMAGEN COPRAl ClUB OPENS TONIOMT MEMBERSHIPS AND INFORMATION AVAILABLE AT THE THEATER CORRAL (TWIN 1 Use Classified ED 2-7722 SEE DIRECTORY AD FOR FEAIURE TIMES A JAMES BOND YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE! ALSO ADDED SHORT SUBJECT AT AIL THEATRES Walt Disnm FLLIOrr COILD AND 1)1 AN CANNON as Ted and Alice on Ridglea screen DOORS OPEN II 45 Ftotur 11 50 2 15 4 40 7 05 9 30 Juqqtd for Meturo Audmui iPortnlal Oiltroton Advitad) PERRY STEWART Film Fails Uf! FAR nut BUR James Bondf) 1 is bach! As Comedy William FuUiknerS Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel "The Reivers? is now a film! it -s mstfomsssa Carol Ted which opened yesterday at the Ridglea Theater seems at first Impression like a vapid tawdry little pseudo-satire But on second thought I believe even less to it than meets the eve What meets the eye initially is an excruciating sequence of title rolists Robert Culp (Bob) and Natalie Wood (Carol going through one of those touch-me-psych-me group encounters at a self-study institute in the southern Califoin a boondocks BOB AND CAROL are so thrilled with their resultant outlook that they rush to tell Ted and Alice (Elliott Gould and Dyan Cannon) the square couple down the street who are shocked when Miss Wood confides gleefully "I've got a wonderful secret to share with you My husband just had an affair with another woman It's all right We've discussed it" This of course sets up the comeuppance of philanderer Culp who throws a tantrum when he comes home one day and finds the adulterous shoe on the other foot From that point on ceases to be a proper or even an improper comedy It not only bogs itself down in a quagmire of socio-spxual claptrap (disguised of course as profound revelations about our culture) but it tampers cruelly with the two sympathetic characters in the film Ted and Alice I mean They begin to wonder if thev're missing out on the sexual revolution and poor Alice goes from frigidity to to exhibitionism one short reel of film have an she yelps ripping off her clothes just before the anti climactic finale Despite this and similar inanities in director Paul script both Gould and Miss Cannon turn excellent performances Off-screen the estranged husband and the exwfe of famous people This merits mention only because (at Gould has proved himself decisively as an actor hence does NOT need identification with wife Barbra Streisand and Miss Cannon has aged enough three years to scarcely resemble the young actress wrho made the headlines as Cary bride Their no-nudifv bedroom scene together is funny touching and probably as wholesome as anything you'll ever see an movie ONHEBUHAJESTTiS ISECRETtSEHVICG fGwtmi 9 a I Steve McQueen plays Boon in "The Sharon Farrell Will Geec Michael Constantine Rupert Crosse Mitch Vogel NOW SHOWING! tfii vp GEORGE LAZENBY- DIANA RIGG -TELLY SAVALAS ns 3ote4 ALBERT BROCCOUsndHAfiRYSALTZMAN rgrifrd by PETER HUNTpScfynpiny by RICHARD MAiBAUM Uustf by JOHN BARRY PANA VISION TECHNICOLOR PCTUBf VXiNDTBACK Al BY jQMh AVAfUBU QN fDABTiSTS UfiftCd BOX OFFICE OPENS 10:50 AM FEATURES 1 1 20-1 30 3 40 5 45-755-10 05 EARLYBIRD MAT ADMISSION 75c FROM 10:50 AM TO 11:20 AM THE NEW LIFE-STYLE! 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