Re: [MOPO] RIP Donald Sutherland

[Ron Magid]

A very sad day! Among my favorite actors of all time – I first became aware of Donald Sutherland when he starred in Fellini’s Casanova, which played in English for one week at the Avco Center theater in Westwood, and had a profound impact on my budding childhood sexuality (I think I was 13 at the time. Sutherland then followed up with what is in my opinion, the best remake of all time Phil Kaufman‘s invasion of the body snatchers, which manages to function as both a remake and a sequel! So many other great performances followed– got to see him live at the Mark Taper Forum some years back and he was of course superb even though the play was not. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 20, 2024, at 11:33 AM, Bruce Hershenson <brucehershen...@gmail.com> wrote:  RIP Donald Sutherland :( He was a superb Canadian actor from the 1960s to the present. While he gave wonderful performances in a number of movies, his main criteria for deciding to take a role seemed to be how much he was paid, because he appeared in lots of movies not worthy of his talents. Some of his movies include: JFK, MASH (as Hawkeye Pierce), Ordinary People, Dirty Dozen, Animal House, Don't Look Now, 1900, Cold Mountain, Kelly's Heroes, and The Hunger Games series (as President Snow). In 2015's "Forsaken", he played the father of his real life son, Kiefer Sutherland, who is also a wonderful actor, and in many ways has followed in his father's footsteps. See https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/20/movies/donald-sutherland-dead.html Virus-free.www.avg.com To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1 To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1