There is a famous scene in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 epic The Godfather where patriarch Vito Corleone (played by Marlon Brando) calls a meeting with the major crime families of New York City.

The Godfather was, for a time ... so it was put up for auction. The painting sold for just $1,000 to an anonymous buyer. Here, the legacy of a once-valuable enterprise: a financial catastrophe ...

the “Godfather III” dialogue keeps coming back ... Whatever the medium, some artists paint and move on; others return, obsessively, to the same canvas. So the movie doesn’t work a miracle ...