Fort Worth Star-Telegram from Fort Worth, Texas • 18

4t4M6W 1 8-A FORT WORTH STAR-TCLECRAM Thvrsday Morning March 9 1972 AIR TREATY SIGNED Mexico and Japan have signed a bilateral air treaty permitting airlines of both nations to fly between Mexico City and Tokyo meals for pennies OPEN 12 NOON DAILY 1 a UAGSMAU BnHOHWAVMwd MO I i a 404 fc PiPfcuNt HUKb Opn ot 5 45 Ark at 6 00 and 930 Pufnstuf at 7:35 BOTH 5 157:15 9 15 ADUlTS $100 TILL 6PM MON fhro FBI i-j BY POPULAR DEMAND BIUYJACK IS BACK! pr EZL I 1 t) WARREN GOLDIE HATTY and HAWN 1 12 352 'HI I ri i CINEMA ClN 1 1 I II MS PRISINTs A ROI1IR I A 1 1 PRODUCTION' -IATIONA1 1 N'1-KAI pin I iRtSRFTFASI: CLORIS LEACIIAM Oscar-worthy GENERAL CINEMA CORPORATION CUNT EASTWOOD "PLAY MISTY FOR ME 1215 41 Invitation lo terror nMKCur I I I I I THE NOW FLICKI I CJmi WArariSwgr wms A MARK RYDELL FILM GPj r' MGMT DOES NOT RECOMMENDGP PICTURES FOR CHILDREN SREC to Meet To Adopt Rules Slar-Talegram Austin Bureau AUSTIN Members oHhe State Republican Executive Committee will meet here Monday to adopt party rules and select a successor to former National Committeeman Peter O'Donnell Jr The SREC also is to certify primary candidates to the county chairmen select the place for meeting to canvass returns for the first primary set the ratio for selection of state convention delegates and select the place and time for state conventions as required by the Texas election code Speculation centers on Rep Fred Agnich of Dallas being selected to replace as national committeeman O'Donnell recently resigned the position MXUAGSMALL ff inCfnall mini hi i i un ILIMITlIl MIU1AIL WLOECAINE SUSANNAH yCKK COLUMBIA I P'CTURF5 I 130-3 35 I I IN COLOR (Rj BARGAIN MATINEE-MON thru SAT-TIL8PM ALL8EATSI OO Bal Pictura Bail Ador Bait Supporting Ador Bl Difidorl eTHE FRENCH 7 OO and 9 00 only PUSHBACK SEATSFRil PARK ING GI ANT SCR EENART GALLERY GENERAL CINEMA CORPORATION 'LAST PICTURE SHOW' OFFERS COMPELLING FILM ARTISTRY The starter on the battered pickup truck grinds and groans trying to find the spark of life And as it wheezes consumptively the camera pans the paint-peeled buildings and starkly lonesome streets of Anarene Tex a town also looking vainly for an ignition that will never come Thus in one opening shot young director Peter Bogdanovich has set the mood for his Last Picture which holds up for two compelling hours of motion picture artistry The film viewed Wednesday at an advance screening prior to its Friday opening at the Opera House Cinema is all we have been told it would be even beyond its Oscar nomination as one of the top five pictures Friday you too will see why nominations also went to Bogdanovich in his directorial debut and to four of the principal in the cast Cloris Leachman Jeff Bridges Ellen Burstyn and that Everyman Cowboy Ben Johnson AUTHOR NOMINATED FOR OSCAR There is also an Oscar nomination for Larry McMurtry the former TCU instructor who has lovingly adapted his novel to screenplay form If Last Picture smacks somewhat of because he is on firm ground recalling the West Texas of yesterday This is McMurtry country The wind blows the screen doors slam the drillers and ranchers sit around the pool hall cussing the high school football team the tall Texaco standard looms over Main Street minus its round trademark disk The time is 1951 lapping over into 1952 and we know it in countless ways without it ever being mentioned From every nickel juke box from every pickup radio Hank Williams and Tony Bennett divide time on Cold Pfc Eddie Fisher does You Were Jo Stafford recalls Belong to The antique TV screens show us antique shots of Warren Hull on It and a younger Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca on the Saturday nights of two decades ago It is the time of the ducktail haircut on boys an age of innocence when the loose girl in town repulses a high school advances in the only movie house with even in the The age so innocent though that film could escape a 1972 rating and not upset some of the citizens of Archer City (where it was filmed) who are claiming with some justification that the movie depicts a town obsessed with sex Last Picture covers (or uncovers) it all from high school to nude swimming parties by the well-to-do to a high school senior having an affair with the wife The answer of course is that Anarene is no different than Peyton Place Manhattan or Cedar Rapids if you are zeroing in on sex practices And Last Picture both visually and audibly zeros in unrelentingly At the outset Spencer Tracy and Liz Taylor are on the marquee of the only picture show in of the At the fadeout the marquee is blank Lives have touched lives have ended and we know the sheet is about to be pulled over the face of a terminal town DEATH SIGNALS END OF ANARENE Ben Johnson the drawling sidekick of many a John Wayne western excels in his largest role to date Sam the Lion grizzled owner of the picture show cafe and pool hall When he dies we know the catalyst for Anarene is gone and the inevitable is nearer Young Jeff Bridges is superb as the backfield star who rides a bus away to the Korean war one day the only future left when the roar of the crowd has died No less superior but overlooked in the Oscar nominations is Timothy Bottoms the younger catalyst who dallies with the wife while the husband is supervising basketball practice (The younger brother Sam Bottoms is poignant as the retarded youngster) Ellen nomination is for her role as the faded beauty mother of the most beautiful daughter Oddly the performance of the daughter Cybill Shepherd outshines the (In other interesting casting Clu Gulager as an oil field roughneck with rougher bedroom tactics and Eileen Brennan the singing Irene Malloy of as a cynical waitress) But clearly the outstanding performance comes from Cloris Leachman as the dowdy pathetic wife who will settle for love any kind of love even if it comes from a student with a changing voice She is tremendous and totally unforgettable Last Picture is in black and white It could be no other way WINNER OF 8 ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS Including-Bsti Pidu't Bssl Supporting Actors Bndgsi and Bn Johnson Bail Supporting Actross Ellon Burstyn Bst Director Potor Bogda- nnvfh UT Receives $15 Million Gift AUSTIN (AP) University of Texas officials said Wednesday the Robert A Welch Foundation of Houston has donated $1505000 to the university system for basic chemical research Most of that amount or $1071000 will go to the main university here The Southwestern Medical School at Dallas will get $128000 and Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute at Houston will get $99000 The Welch foundation was established in 1954 The foundation ranks third in size in Texas and 22nd in the world LAST PICTURE SHOW IS THE BEST AMERICAN FILM SO FAR THIS YEAR! Bogdanovich is one of our most gifted CRIST New York Magazine STARTS TOMORROW FORT WORTH AREA EXCLUSIVE SHOWING! MASTERPIECE! It is not merely the best American movie of a rather dreary year it is the most impressive work by a young American director since ZIMMERMAN Newsweek LAST PICTURE show is the happiest news of the 1971 New York Film KANFER Time Magazine SI 2 'tvette Jr sy iS-fiVTiC fine film THE LAST PICTURE show tells a series of interlocking stories of love and loss that illuminate a good deal more of one segment of the American experience than any other American film in recent VINCENT CANBY Times OPW545 'til 6 45 404 PIPELINE HURST AdglllSlOO "THE LITTLE ARK" ot- 6 00 9 30 -plus "PUFNSTUF" ol 745 JUDY NN MAJJIiM TOMORROW! Inters tale's WAITING FOR BOATS Tennessee expects more than 850000 boating people to use its waterways in 1972 PALACE COLUMBIA PICTURED Pm- A BBS PRODUCTION DOWNTOWN lDC 7TH ST Arlington Twiffl Official Selection New York Film Festiva 2935 SEMINARY DR S35-4645 OPEN 6:30 START 7:15 Natalie Wood Robert Culp Elliott Gould Dyan Cannon "BOB CAROL TED ALICE" Plus Warren Beatty Goldie Hawn "DOLLARS" Bolh Rated (R) Interslat e's 2315 DIVISION 275-2102 OPEN 6:30 START AT 7:00 -SOUTH-Worren Beatty Goldie Hawn ''DOLLARS'' Also Natalie Wood Robert Culp "BOB CAROL TED ALICE" Elliott Gould Dyan Cannon All In Color-(R) -NORTH-Sandy Duncan Tony Roberts "STAR SPANGLED GIRL" Also Jock Lemmon Walter Matthau "THE ODD COUPLE" All Fail Color-(G) 6300 JACKSBORO HWY 237-2601 $129 PER WHOLE CARLOAD Box Office Opens 6:30 PM Show Starts 7:00 PM IN-CAR HEATERS Ralph Bates Barbara Jefford "LUST FOR A VAMPIRE" 8:45 Judith O'Dea Duanne Jones "NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD" Nick Adams Kumi Mizuno "FRANKENSTEIN CONQUERS THE WORLD" 10:30 Brigitte Bardot Peter Fonda "SPIRITS OF THE DEAD" 12:00 obemgn TIMOTHY B0TT0MSJEFF BRIDGES ELLEN BURSTYN BEN JOHNSON 'CLORIS LEACHMAN-W CYBILL SHEPHERD Duenna By Screenplay by lenjt'v Proa Ptmwp'iU PETER B0GDAN0VICHLARRY McMURTRYna PETER BOGDANOVICH BERT SCHNEIDER 'STEPHEN FRIEDMAN Original Soundttacli Album on MQM ordT) 2935 SLM1NARY PR 5354645 Bi-n John Wayne in "THE UNDEFEATED" Plus Barry Newman in "THE VANISHING POINT" ond James Cobirrn in "IN LIKE FLINT" A PG Program ZL ISOUTHSIDEtTWIN STARTS TOMORROW FORT WORTH AREA EXCLUSIVE SHOWING! 5709 BELKNAP 838-5171 OPEN 6:45 START 7:15 Action Suspense Exciting Clint Eostwood Reni Santoni Andy Robinson John Larch "DIRTY HARRY" In Color-(R) Charlton Heston Anthony Zerbe Rosalind Cosh Brian Oochi "OMEGA MAN" In (PG) Lancaster and Riverside ot Turnpike 335-6104 Box Office Opens 6:30 PM Show Starts ot 7:00 PM IN-CAR HEATERS Warren Beatty Goldie Hawn "DOLLARS" 7:00 11:00 Natalie Wood Robert Culp "BOB CAROL TED ALICE" 9:15 THEY USED EVERY PASSION IN THEIR INCREDIBLE DUEL! 6200 OLD HEMPHILL ROAD OPEN 6:30 START 7:00 -EAST- "BOOT HILL" (GP) Torrance Hill Woody Strode "RIDE THE WHIRLWIND" (GP) Jock Nicholson -WEST- "DIRTY HARRY" (R) Clint Eastwood "THE OMEGA MAN" (R) Charlton Heston INDUSTRY BOOMING TLAXCALA Mexico (Spl) New industries rapidly are being established in the state of Tlaxcala larger than Rhode Island State officials said 39 industries with a $40-million investment and employing 6340 persons are in action and 15 more are planned EIUI3 ELIZABETH QUEEN OF NT LAN I) I who reigned MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS who ruled with the heart a woman 2245 JACKSBORO HWY 626-1330 OPEN 6:30 START 7:00 "DOLLARS" Warren Beotty Goldie Hawn "PARADE OF FOOLS" James Stewart "YOU CAN'T WIN THEM ALL" Tony Curtis All In (R) I UlldMMfi "I Long-holding A FASTEETH 5 Powder A It takes the worry out of wearing dentures BBHBbI Lancaster at Riverside at Turnpike 3356104 Box Office Opens 6:30 PM Show Starts at 7:00 PM IN-CAR HEATERS Academy Award Nominee Best Supporting Actress Dustin Hoffman Barbara Harris "WHO IS HARRY KELLERMAN?" 7:00 11:00 Richard Harris Dame Judith Anderson "A MAN CALLED HORSE" HMU JPM fc UftP CZHBMZZ 3601 NE 28fh 838-8842 OPEN 6:30 START 7:00 3 Adult Movies ALL COLOR NONE UNDER 18 Price $150 Adults 838-8842 NEW SHOW EVERY WED HWY 183 EULESS 283-2112 OPEN 6:30 SHOW AT 7:00 Warren Beotty Goldie Hawn Also Natalie Wood Robert Culp "BOB CAROL TED ALICE" Elliott Gould Dyan Cannon All Full Color-(R) Interstate 20 and Hwy 80 West $129 PER WHOLE CARLOAD Box Office Opens 6:30 PM Show Starts ot 7:00 PM IN-CAR HEATERS Barbara Eden Elliott Gould "QUICK GET MARRIED" 8:45 Raquol Welch James Stacy "A SWINGING SUMMER" 7:00 "SHOTGUN WEDDING" 10:15 I IMMeiil'l'Kl IWESTERNERI 1701 RIVERSIDE DR Ph 335-5871 $125 PER WHOLE CARLOAD FREE-FREE-A HEADLP5S EYE TO THE FIRST 100 CARS TONITE 4-BIG HORRORS-4 "THE HEADLESS EYES" "THE GHASTLY ONES" (GP) "THE CRAWLING EYE" James (Gunsmoke) Arness As the Monster In "THE THING" A Hal Wallis Production MOVIE RATINGS General Audience Parental Guidance Under 18 Raquiret Accompanying Parent or Adult 'X'-No One Under 18 Admitted HIWAY 183 RIVER OAKS OPEN 6:45 START 7:15 Carrie Snodgress "DIARY OF A MAD HOUSEWIFE" (R) Clint Eastwood Jessica Walters "PLAY MISTY FOR ME" (R) Poul Newman Joonne Woodward "WINNING" (G) Set Redgrave a da Jackson Win i ikMcGoohan Timtiiw Dalton -NigciDavenport ICHERRYUNE EAST luEHlUMnSHB CHERRY LANE WEST r-mmui i University at Freeway 3365092 Tom laughlin Delorei (GP) "BILLY JACK" Paul Newman Geo Kennedy-(GP) "COOL HAND LUKE" Anthony Quinn Tony (GP) "FLAP" 1-20 ot CHERRY LANE 246-1492 Clint Eastwood Reni (R) "DIRTY HARRY" Charlton Heston Anthony Zerbe (PG) "THE OMEGA MAN" 1-20 at CHERRY LANE 2461492 Warren Beatty Goldie "DOLLARS" Elliott Gould Natalie (R) "BOB CAROL TED ALICE" I Trevor Cn Matting Howard Dmici Massey im Holm 'tiArSWJtllY) NOW AvAu Rt rimsivtiv GP IVndix rd hv 1 1 A I It WM I IS A I'M VI KS1 Kill SV) I MINK (IHlKM'WWNnV I ONOECCAecw MOMT DOES NOT RECOMMEND Of PICTURES POR CHILDREN.