From: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com (aml-list-digest) To: aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: aml-list-digest V1 #151 Reply-To: aml-list Sender: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk aml-list-digest Wednesday, September 13 2000 Volume 01 : Number 151 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 20:27:30 -0700 From: Ruth Starkman Subject: Re: [AML] LABUTE, _Nurse Betty_ Thom Duncan wrote: > Ruth Starkman wrote: > > > What I can say with a little more certainty is this: Taylor's position on LaBute strikes Eric as so "personal" because it seems > > more an occasion to defend the virtues of TV culture (what was this about television having " better writing than films" > > these days?) > > An example: _The West Wing_. Hands down the best written and > acted drama to come down the pike in years. Consistently good. > > -- > Thom Duncan > Thank you, a good case in point. And there are surely howlers on either side of the film/ tv fence as well. For that reason, I think I was trying to say that the opposition was (increasingly) spurious. - --Ruth BTW: there's a NYtimes Magazine interview with Labute on Sunday 9-10. http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20000910mag-qalabute.html - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 01:35:00 -0400 From: Richard Johnson Subject: Re: [AML] PARKINSON, _Into the Field_ (erratum) At 03:51 PM 9/11/2000 -0700, you wrote: >Folks, > >Somebody reminded me of something I left out in my offer to send >list members a copy of _Into the Field_ for $11. This offer is >from me, not Aspen, so make checks to me personally. > >Thanks, >Benson Parkinson >Formerly moderator, presently author and editor > I was in the west for six weeks (just returned a week ago). I went to four LDS bookstores looking for _Into the Field_, finally finding it at a Beehive bookstore in Idaho Falls. It sure isn't being marketed as well as _MTC Set Apart_ which seemed to be in all the bookstores- - even out here in the sticks. I recommend the book. Richard B. Johnson Husband, Father, Grandfather, Puppeteer, Playwright, Writer, Director, Actor, Thingmaker, Mormon, Person, Fool I sometimes think that the last persona is the most important http://www2.gasou.edu/commarts/puppet/ Georgia Southern University Puppet Theatre - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 01:17:13 -0600 From: "D. Michael Martindale" Subject: Re: [AML] Beaten to the Punch Thom Duncan wrote: > Has this happened to anyone else? You have a killer idea but > just as you're starting on it, you learn that someone else more > prominent than you, has already completed it? I also had the idea of writing a play based on _Carthage Conspiracy_, which of course was preempted by Slover. I once attended a workshop on writing Star Trek scripts, which gave you an in above and beyond the regular schmuck having your spec scripts looked at. But every great idea I came up with became an aired episode within two weeks. I don't _think_ they implanted a mind-reading chip into my brain during the coffee break. - -- D. Michael Martindale dmichael@wwno.com ================================== Check out Worldsmiths, the new online LDS writers group, at http://www.wwno.com/worldsmiths Sponsored by Worlds Without Number http://www.wwno.com ================================== - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 08:40:42 -0600 From: Scott and Marny Parkin Subject: Re: [AML] Galaxy Quest wins Hugo Terry L Jeffress wrote: >Scott and Marny Parkin wrote: > > > > Remember that the Hugo is voted on by the attendees of WorldCon--in > > other words, by science fiction fans. GQ's depiction of fans as the > > good guys made it the obvious choice of fandom everywhere. > >So how did you vote Scott?? Unfortunately, I didn't. As is my wont, I left my ballot sitting on the counter and didn't think to fill it out until two days after the deadline. Had I voted, though, I would have voted for _The Matrix_. I thought it was the best made film of the bunch (I did see all of them), that it made the most spectacular use of the medium, and had the most complex story (which isn't saying much since none of them were particularly complex). The best acting was done in _Sixth Sense_, but pretty much everything else goes to _The Matrix_, imo. I thought _Being John Malkovich_ was clever and quirky, but it just didn't fly for me overall; it was a one-trick pony whose trick got stale for me. (And it was mainstream, not sf, but that's a different discussion.) Despite the glowing praise it's received on this list, I didn't think _The Iron Giant_ was all that good. In fact, the movie deeply troubles me in ways that I'm having a hard time articulating. So there you go. I agree that _The Matrix_ was a better film, but see nothing wrong at all with _Galaxy Quest_ winning an award given by fans. Scott Parkin - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:12:49 -0400 From: Tony Markham Subject: Re: [AML] Beaten to the Punch Thom Duncan wrote: > > > Has this happened to anyone else? You have a killer idea but > just as you're starting on it, you learn that someone else more > prominent than you, has already completed it? > The same exact year my book came out, so did a cheesy little direct-to-video movie, that, if you took away any of the artistry I might have aspired to and filled it in with gratuitous nudity, then they bore a pretty fair resemblance to each other. The main character in this bit of fluff (the movie, not my book) was "Tony Markham." It was called "Dinosaur Valley Girls" and I don't recommend it. The book was better. Tony Markham (no relation) [MOD: So, what was the book title?] - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:11:12 -0600 (MDT) From: Ivan Angus Wolfe Subject: Re: [AML] Introductions: Ivan Wolfe I must make two corrections to my intro post: (both due to embarrasing misspellings) > > Name: Ivan Angus Wolfe > I have an > Irish/American/Jewish/Celtic Folk band called ORGANIC GREENS. > http://organicgreens.freeyellow.com - --Ivan Wolfe - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:57:21 -0600 From: Terry L Jeffress Subject: [AML] Review Archive Update New reviews added to the archive: 374 The Fiction by R. A. Christmas 375 Driving on the Lakebed by R. A. Christmas 376 My Servant Brigham: Protrait of a Prophet by Richard Holzapfel 377 Moroni: Ancient Prophet, Modern Messenger by H. Donl Peterson 378 Between Husband and Wife by Stephen E. Lamb 379 Stone Tables by Orson Scott Card 380 Scripture Scouts by Janice Kapp Perry, et al. 381 The Trial by Lindsey Phillip Dew 382 Latter Days: A Guided Tour Through Six Billion Years of Mormonism by Coke Newell 383 Images of a Mormon Prophet by Richard Holzapfel 384 One More River to Cross by Margaret Blair Young 385 The Principle by Kathryn Smoot Caldwell 386 Love Beyond Time by Nancy Campbell Allen Reviewer stats: 42 Jeff Needle 26 Harlow S. Clark 26 R. W. Rasband 14 Katie Parker 12 D. Michael Martindale 11 Benson Parkinson 10 Melassa Proffitt 10 Jana Bouck Remy This update should cover all reviews posted to AML-List up through 10 September 2000. If your review isn't archived, let me know and I'll make sure to electronically imortalize your work. - -- Terry Jeffress AML-List Review Archivist - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 03:32:02 JST From: "Andrew Hall" Subject: [AML] Introductions: Andrew Hall I'm finally getting settled in from my travels around the world, and am ready to introduce myself. I've been married for almost 10 years to Jenifer Larson-Hall, and we have a 20-month old son, Lachlan, who we adopted as a newborn through LDS Social Services. He is a bundle of fun. Jen and I are both at the University of Pittsburgh, working on our PhDs. I'm getting a degree in Japanese History, and Jen is in Linguistics. We spent the last 16 months in Japan, not far from Tokyo, doing research for our dissertations. We got back to the States about three weeks ago, visited family in Washington and Utah, and just got back to Pittsburgh. My connection to Mormon Lit is as a fan. My parents had lots of Mormon books, including novels, lying around while I was growing up, and I read several of them. I became a serious fan in 1990, when Jenifer took Eugene England's Mormon lit class at BYU. I sat in on several of the classes, and read most of the texts. After we moved to Pittsburgh we had study groups with friends in the ward, and several times we read and discussed Mormon fiction. I wrote up a bibliography of Mormon lit of note for the study group, and have been adding to it ever since. With all the reccomendations that I hear on AML-List, I think it is up to 25 pages now. Whenever we go through Utah, I stock up on books from the used book stores and BYU. I've built up a pretty big collection. On the list I run the monthly poll, called, for lack of a better name, Andrew's Poll. Thanks to all who have participated. September's poll will be on Mormon drama. That's the end of my intro. For those interested enough to continue, a review of what I have read and seen lately follows: We spent a week in Provo at the end of August which was full of Mormon lit activities. They included: 1. We saw a production of Tim Slover's "A March Tale" at the Castle Theater in Provo. What a neat theater, whith a great view of the valley. Scott Bronson directed the play, and I briefly met Tim and Scott before it started, that was fun. Thom Duncan played Thomas a Kemp, and did a great job. Thom certainly looks different than I imagined--I immagined a skinny, beardless man, not the robust, bearded giant that he is. The play was lots of fun, most of the actors did a great job. I liked how Scott had them leave props on the state at the end of the scene, which would then be incorporated into the next scene. Only the sub-plot about Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway didn't work very well, I thought. It didn't engage me, and the resolution felt limp. The actor who played Shakespeare very much looked the part. 2. We saw God's Army at the dollar movie. We loved it, and even got the CD. Oh, the actor who played "Benny" in the movie was in A March Tale as well. 3. I watched the baby and went to Sam Weller's while Jen and our friends saw the new "Testaments" movie. They liked it, and I didn't find any good books, so that was a bummer. I'll see it next year. I did enjoy the Book of Mormon art exhibit at the Church Art Museaum, especially the monochrome paintings by Chinese artists. 4. Listened to the first volume of Dean Hughes' _Children of the Promise_ series while driving by myself from Utah to Pittsburgh (the others flew). What a great story! I'm going back to read the parts the CD cut out, and will soon move on to volume 2. Hughes' prose worked well, not very literary or anything, just clean and clear. The charachters are very interesting, especially the father and mother. I had never realized that WWII was such a watershead time in ending the cultural isolation that the Mormons had kept themselves in for so long. Hughes' portrayal of President Thomas' difficulty in dealing with this change was magnificant. Good for Hughes for having such success with the series. The actor who read the CD was fine, nothing special, but the editing was done very well. I didn't feel like anything was left out (although a lot was, I now see). 5. Bought the Dialogue issue on Mormon lit and the Irreantums that I didn't have at BYU bookstore. Fun stuff. I like what the Chandlers are doing with Dialogue. Too much was either negative or boring the last few years. I may have to resubscribe to it. 6. Bought the new books by Benson P., Margaret Y./Darius G., and Eric Sam. I look forward to them all. Jen is currently reading Margaret and Darius' book, and she loves it. We have lots of black members in our ward, so we'll probably buy some copies of the book as gifts. 7. BYU Studies asked me to submit a version of my AML-list review of Tom Rogers' book on his mission in Russia for their "Reviews in Brief" section. Cool. Well, that was a fun week, but now I've got to get back to Japanese history, so my time for reading literature will go back down to its normal level. If I find anything good, I'll tell you about it. Andrew Hall Pittsburgh, PA _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:46:33 -0600 From: Melissa Proffitt Subject: Re: [AML] Review Archive Update On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:57:21 -0600, Terry L Jeffress wrote: > 10 Melassa Proffitt Love the new spelling of my name. :) Melissa Proffitt - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 13:47:13 -0700 From: "Brandi Rainey" Subject: [AML] Introductions: Brandi Rainey due to a nagging idea that i may just be the AML underachiever of the year = ... i've been avoiding sending my response to the "introductions" vein. i = do little more than linger here, but i figure i can, at the very least, = say hello. i am a recent graduate of BYU, currently employed as a marketing project = manager for one of the myriads of multi-level marketing firms in the utah = valley. (i get to tell chris bigelow what to do on occasion - does wonders = for my sense of well-being). i'm originally from North Carolina and was blessed to serve a mission in = northern Italy. i am the single mother of three water frogs ... rozencrantz= , guildenstern, and ophelia. all of which, make me very proud. my association to mormon letters was inspired by Eugene England's LDS lit = class the last semester he taught at BYU. Emma Lou Thayne came to read her = poetry, and i have never been the same.=20 - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ End of aml-list-digest V1 #151 ******************************