Word: fernando
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...uphill fight against Fernando and superwife...
...singing a high C, are displayed in La Favorita. As an actor Pavarotti can be funny or tragic (both in La Bohème), or a careless aristocrat (the Duke in Rigoletto). But with his native wit and musical intelligence, Pavarotti cannot act dumb. Unfortunately, that is required of Fernando, the hero of La Favorita...
...unforgivable amount of time it eludes him that she is the mistress of King Alfonso XI (Sherrill Milnes), even though a chap wearing a crown is always lurking about her or walking up and down the steps to a throne. There are also political complications in Leonora's life. Fernando is no match for all this. (Bad luck: he could have provided Lohengrin's Elsa, who also had trouble with names, with the years of bovine bliss she deserved...
...screens. He still drives a 1967 Camaro, still wears the same Levi's and cords, and still walks around in the same battered shoes and sneakers. When he leaves his home in San Francisco for the Los Angeles movie labs, he stays with friends in the unfashionable San Fernando Valley, avoiding the Beverly Hills-Malibu axis as if it were enemy territory, which for him it is. The only real change is that he has finally finished furnishing his house in San Francisco, and he and his wife Marcia, one of the best-known film editors in the business, have...
...predict if-and possibly when and where -an earthquake will strike. "'Uplifts have been observed before several major earthquakes," notes Seismologist Peter Ward, chief of earthquake mechanics and predictions for the U.S.G.S. Among these quakes is California's last large temblor, the one that shook the San Fernando Valley in 1971, taking 58 lives...