Word: sutherland
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Montreal widow (Monique Leyrac). She divides her attentions between young Russ (Bill Mitchell) and singing in the choir of the nearby Anglican church. Otherwise her thoughts are confined to romantic musings about herself and her relationship with God. They are, that is, until she discovers the Augustinian monk (Donald Sutherland) who temporarily takes over as choir director...
...Sutherland tries to achieve a proper balance between ethereal consecration and worldly wisdom. But the latter quality is principally conveyed by such lines as "Look, Ma, I'm human," and "Let's follow the monk and see what it eats." After the boy dies of hockey injuries, Martha and the monk consummate their tormented ardor at the foot of the church altar; the scene comes close to unintentional parody of the old de Sadistic monk-and-choirgirl routine...
...years later he made his operatic debut in Traviata with Mexico's National Opera. That same year he sang opposite Joan Sutherland in Lucia di Lammermoor with the Dallas Civic Opera. Then came an offer from the Israel National Opera in Tel Aviv. Nearly 300 performances later, Rudel signed Domingo and gave him the title role in Ginastera's Don Rodrigo at the February 1966 opening of the company's new home in Lincoln Center. Domingo...
...Unhappily," Sutherland added, "people want to have guns: to go hunting and to protect their homes against criminals." The new climate of violence has given frightened citizens one more reason to resist giving up their "rights as Americans" to carry arms...
...optimistic about the law's adoption in the near future, Sutherland feels that any gun legislation would be "simmering on the back burner" for quite a while to come...