Word: sutherland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jill Clayburgh ever attempt this part? As Erica Benton she was delightful. As a high-powered diva, she's positively grotesque. Those station-wagonned suburban looks don't help and that fabulously skinny body certainly doesn't look appropriate. Who has ever seen or heard an anorexic Joan Sutherland or Beverly Sills? Clayburgh careens about the screen, wildly overacting. Trying so damn hard, Clayburgh becomes positively painful to watch. Matthew Barry reveals some vestiges of talent but when delivering lines like "I must go; she awaits me", it's virtually impossible to appear anything but absurd...
...there is this photographer (the winsome Brooke Adams) who mistakes one of the crooks for a construction worker and snaps his picture when, dressed like a foreman, he is making off with some blueprints he needs. But this character, played in more than usually laid-back style by Donald Sutherland, disarms whatever suspicions she may have by falling in love with her. Even when one of her pictures appears on a billboard on the bank, it does nothing to set back the robbers...
Such suspense - and such full-throated comedy - as the picture offers derives mainly from Allan Magicovsky as Adams' wildly jealous lover. He takes to following Sutherland around in a men acing way, and he might, in the process, discover just what game is afoot. But he doesn't, and neither does a cop who stops the escaping Sutherland because the van carrying the swag to the airport has a malfunctioning taillight. Magicovsky was our last hope for some real excitement, but only modest suspense is generated by the encounter. Like everything else in this movie, it is underplayed...
...broad casts of live performances are scheduled, mostly for PBS. The Met, which experimented with them as early as 1948 and began them on a regular basis in 1977, will do three more this season for North America, plus one to be beamed directly to Europe. A joint Joan Sutherland-Marilyn Home recital next month will begin the Emmy award- winning Live from Lincoln Center series of six vocal, instrumental and dance programs. Coverage of perhaps another dozen special events is in the offing, including the San Francisco Ballet, the Vienna Philharmonic and the Chicago Lyric Opera...
...lucky opera, La Bohème, he caught Hong Kong flu and had to withdraw halfway through the second performance. It took him three years to overcome that anticlimactic beginning at the house. But when he did, in a production of The Daughter of the Regiment with Sutherland, he set New York on its critical ear with a spectacular series of nine high Cs in a single aria. With no little help from the publicity mills, Pavarotti the supertenor...