And to think of poor Donald Sutherland today, playing a heavy in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Yes, of course…he’s delighted to have the work and the exposure and to be in the swim of it, etc. But to have stood at the top of the mountain…well, at least he had those moments. Over two full decades of them. The Dirty Dozen to M.A.S.H. to Klute to Don’t Look Now to Little Murders to Eye of the Needle to Ordinary People to that brilliant soliloquy as “Mr. X” in JFK…nothing to snort at. What percentage of the under-educated wankers who live for the Hunger Games series know anything about Sutherland?
