From: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com (aml-list-digest) To: aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: aml-list-digest V1 #815 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 Friday, August 30 2002 Volume 01 : Number 815 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 22:51:11 -0500 From: Jonathan Langford Subject: [AML] Re: Mormon Plays (Andrew's Poll) (Comp 2) [MOD: This is a compilation post of responses to Larry Jackson's query.] >From leeallred@rmi.net Tue Aug 27 20:42:07 2002 Larry Jackson asked: - --- "I saw a play at BYU in January or February of 1970 about Korihor...Anyone know what it might have been and who wrote it?" - --- Sounds like "The Tragedy of Korihor" (and I'm blanking on the name of the playwright) that was (I think) part of the Mormon Festival of Arts held at BYU around 1970-1 or so. BYU put out a postum table photo essay book on the festival: Wheelwright, Lorin F. and Lael J. Woodbury (Editors). Mormon Arts, Volume One: Featuring articles and art work by Mormon artists and authors. (Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 1972). I have the book back home in Orem, but unfortunately, I'm in Denver right now, or I'd look it up... FWIW, the play was the central theme of a Kathy D. Pullins' Womens Conference talk this year, "Choose You This Day." (http://ce.byu.edu/cw/cwwomens/archive/2002/kd_pullins.htm) - --Lee Allred - --------------------------------------------------- >From andrewrhall@hotmail.com Tue Aug 27 21:57:21 2002 There was a play by Louise Hanson called "The Tragedy of Korihor" which was performed at the 1974 BYU Mormon Festival of Arts. That might be the one. [Andrew Hall] - --------------------------------------- >From ThomDuncan@prodigy.net Tue Aug 27 21:57:30 2002 It was called Korihor. It starred Craig Costello and my ex-wife had a minor role. It was full-length play as I recall. It was written by a woman whose name escapes me. Thom - --------------------------------------------- - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 23:39:27 -0400 (EDT) From: "Eric D. Snider" Subject: RE: [AML] _Possession_ (Movie) "Possession" is opening at several SLC-area theaters this weekend. It's a good movie, but not a great one. I suppose a review is forthcoming. In defense of the Tower Theatre (Clark Goble made some comments), I will concur that the theater is a bit run-down, but I think that adds to its charm. More importantly, however, is that for ages it was the only place where you could consistently see arthouse films in Salt Lake City. Brewvies would get them now and then, and you'd see them at Broadway or even the Century 16 sometimes. But the Tower was all arthouse, all the time, and you could count on it. I wish they could earn enough money to fix the place up, too, but you can only make so much being an arthouse. Now, the Broadway is under new management and is essentially becoming a Tower multiplex -- six screens of arthouse stuff. (A few films under contract from before the changeover, like "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood," are unfortunately still there.) I doubt SLC can support a total of seven screens of art films, but it's great for the community that they're all there, for however long it lasts. The Tower's getting mostly artsy arthouse films while the Broadway got more mainstream ones was more coincidence than design. Believe, me the Tower loooooves when it can get a more mainstream (i.e., more profitable) film. But Tower management has placed a higher value on artistic merit than on making money (though this has not stopped it from showing some truly boring movies at times). I don't work for the Tower, so I'll stop. But I like the place, and I like what they do, and I hope they and the Broadway can survive while showing films you can't see anywhere else. Eric D. Snider - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 20:42:02 -0700 From: The Laird Jim Subject: Re: [AML] Democratization of Opinions on 8/26/02 10:54 PM, Scott Parkin at scottparkin@earthlink.net wrote: > I admit that I would like to hear more from our qualified people on this > list, though. How do we encourage that while still allowing each of us to > exercise the right to express our unqualified opinions? What constitutes qualified? The academy has gotten farther and farther away from reality for more than fifty years. There's a reason that philosophy no longer has the influence it once did. Upon a time a philosopher's words could eventually become common belief, and that time was not so long ago. Since the '30s it has become less and less likely as the theories taught in schools journey farther into the misty netherworld. I personally blame socialism--the miracle of socialism is that it somehow convinced intellectuals that they would be better off in a society where they would be slaves. The proles would merely be serfs, but in every socialist society thus far it is the intellectuals that suffer the worst slavery. Every aspect of their lives is informed by ideology. This is something they push for, wish for, and dream about constantly. Most people don't even know socialism when it bites them, and universities are rife with it. How does studying fantasies and delusions make one qualified? I had a devil of a time in college. When I started I had already read most major philosophers and lots of delusional writers like Marx and Mao and Hitler. I came very close to fighting with my professors on several occasions. If you knew me personally you would no how ludicrous that is--I was very shy and diffident at 18. Just arguing with my sociology prof was a painful experience, but I just couldn't swallow the khat he were trying to feed me. My western civ prof was trying to disprove the bible to everyone and I argued with him too. There were people in my class who groaned aloud when he explained the "origin" of the flood myth in Gilgamesh. Another time I couldn't sit still. The list goes on and on, and happened as often at BYU as at ASU. Then I started working for an Apple education dealer and worked with professors as a veritable equal...if there could be any equals to such peerless paragons of virtue and wisdom. The old saw about "those who can't do, teach" is true far to often, but strangely enough it's high school and college where the worst ones congregate. Forget about qualifications. Go to the source. There are plenty of silly books in the world and there's no need for a silly person to explain them. Jim Wilson - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 20:59:30 -0700 From: The Laird Jim Subject: Re: [AML] Lousy Movies on 8/27/02 9:37 PM, Kim Madsen at kcmadsen@utah-inter.net wrote: > Unfortuneately, today's bad movies (which seem to be aimed at the > adolescent mindset) are filled with slasher gore. I can't stand > to watch them. They must create numbness in the teenage minds who > seem to be attracted to them. > > Kim Madsen > That is certainly something I don't understand. What's the pleasure in watching girls and their inept boyfriends getting killed by some supernatural killer? I have seen a ton of horror movies because when I was twelve _Halloween_ scared me. None of the others have, but I keep hoping. _The Blair Witch Project_ was purported to be scary but it wasn't even close. I see pretty much any ghost movie that comes out but at best they only rise to creepy. *Sigh.* I don't know about it creating numbness, however. They're too goofy and unrealistic to be desensitizing. I think people like them because they're "fun" like Eric says. That latest Jason movie is obviously not supposed to be scary--it's painfully ludicrous. The Scream movies were of the same goof-ball quality. Drive-in movies are still around, they just have larger budgets and "respected" directors make them. There are still occasional gems, however, and I'm always hoping for more. Of course, I haven't seen a gem of a ghost story since _The Sixth Sense_ and it was only scary because of sympathy for the kid's fright. Oh well, maybe next year. Jim Wilson aka The Laird Jim - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ End of aml-list-digest V1 #815 ******************************