Fort Worth Star-Telegram from Fort Worth, Texas • 119

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Museum Inspires Reactions 3AoobL 'GODFATHER' EXCEEDS ALL EXPECTATIONS 4 4 And so it has come at last to the Ridglea Theater screen The most awaited movie perhaps since With the with its built-in audience of millions who read ami loved the best-selling novel and the most dreaded perhaps by all of us who were afraid was going to muck up another enthralling book We were almost convinced after the dismal start First of all producer A1 Ruddy bowed under to the mob pressure and said the words and would be deleted from the script that for gutsy openers? Then in the most eagerly-anticipated casting announcement since David Sclznick chose his Scarlett we learn who will portray Marlon Brando? A fine actor of course but without a successful picture in several years and certainly not the man visualized by the readers of Mario Puzo novel By BUTTERFIELD Star Telegram Art Critic -A new era is upon us The decade of the Seventies brings with it portents of an exciting kind of art which will possibly be as difficult and as misunderstood as Abstract Expressionism was in the ltDOs The distinguished critic Hamid Rosenberg weighed the pros and cons of this new ait in a recent article terming it and its creators It is to the credit of Director Sebastian Adler that many of (lie works in new Contemporary Arts (CAM) daring and ambitious inaugural exhibition are new' inventive works many of which are inclined (i not objects predicated upon spectator involvement) and that the museum building has been ideally conceived to house virtually all new art forms FEW ART movements have been instantaneously accept ed and (lie vvoiks included in I his exhibition are no exception Ihe ripples have already begun Bill Adler has courageously dins from among Ihe toughest ennlcm-porary arfists for his opening show His program for the museum is predicated upon the fact that the CAM has no permanent collection and is therefore essentially non-re-posilory It is belief that the role of the museum is to present the best and most representative examples of contemporary art available Last vv flamboyant black lie opening of Ihe mu seinn generated a great (led of excitement particularly among impoilanl museum pinfessionals writ or and (lilies who flew to Texas far the event They were laudato rv about the stun lure itself as well as the far- rea( hmg concepts THERE IS much art excite-' Turn to Opening on Rage 5 OTHER DETRIMENTS RECALLED There were other ominous omens Vic Damone was he would hurt the Italian image if he portrayed the Johnny Fontane the fictional singer patterned loosely on Sinatra And the director selected turned out to be young Fran-cis Ford Coppola whose only previous efforts a Big Boy Ram and hardly brought on dancing in the streets by the critics And so just what has Paramount come up with on the Ridglea Theater screen? Merely the best picture of the year one perhaps to eventually rank up there with the aforementioned A stunning brilliant performance by Marlon Brando reaffirming that it takes more than a little lapse in good properties to negate his and days A three-hour film that thunders by like it was only 90 minutes Truly a milestone film look for Brando and Coppola and to cop the Oscars next month But only because the picture was just released nationwide this past week It's next Oscar entry and look for it to make its sw'ecp Ihcn The voters will still remember guarantee that because the iewers will never forget GODFATHER AND Mai loti Brando tight gives rnp of ton finest performances of his career as film version of the best-selling novel that Is on the Ridglea Thraler screen line he talks to his son and heir to the title poitiujed by A1 Pacino BRANDO DOMINATES FILM In what Is really a relatively small role in a three-hour picture Brando completely captures the film in a brilliant title role performance With cotton stuffed in his cheeks his eyes turned to shadows his voice the hoarse rasp of an old man he mesmerizes the viewer as Don Vito Corleone the Sicilian- Turn to Godfather on Page 3 Larry McAAurtry Writing Even Belter Than Ever Leonard Sanders Reviews New' Novel on Page (iG Tlr- SERTA PERFECT SLEEPER THE ULTIMATE IN HEALTHFUL SLEEPING COMFORT! 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