(At left: Andy Garcia and Eli Wallach in "The Godfather: Part III.")
An addendum to the two previous posts on this year's honorary Oscars. The movie business can be one small world. This year's recipients, you will recall, are Francis Ford Coppola, Eli Wallach, Jean-Luc Godard, and Kevin Brownlow. So? So Wallach plays the treacherous Don Altobello in Coppola's "The Godfather: Part III." Godard's "comeback" to feature filmmaking, "Sauve qui peut," was released in the States (as "Every Man for Himself") by Coppola's production and distribution company, American Zoetrope. And the Brownlow restoration of Abel Gance's "Napoleon" was presented under the aegis of (you guessed it) American Zoetrope. Clearly, Coppola has been good at making people offers they can't refuse -- and recent movie history is that much the better for it.
