From: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com (aml-list-digest) To: aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: aml-list-digest V2 #121 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 Thursday, August 14 2003 Volume 02 : Number 121 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 08:18:26 -0700 From: "Susan Malmrose" Subject: Re: [AML] Box Office Report 8 Aug. 03 Matthew Modine is LDS? Paul Walker is too? Never knew that. What exactly is the definition of LDS for this report? Susan M - --- ----------------------------- ----------- ----- ---- 20 Le Divorce (NEW) 516,834 34 3 Matthew Modine (actor) 516,834 27 2 Fast 2 Furious 289,910 302 66 Paul Walker (lead actor) 125,882,195 - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 09:15:44 -0600 From: "Paul VanDenBerghe" Subject: Re: [AML] Val Kilmer and Joseph Smith I would love to see either of these two actors take the role of Joseph Smit= h= before Val Kilmer. Nothing against Val Kilmer; I just don't like his acting. Paul VanDenBerghe >>> jongiorgi@sunset.net - 8/12/03 1:03 AM >>> How does Hugh Jackman strike you guys? Or what about Viggo Mortinson? (Sorry about the spelling... you know the guys I mean: Wolverine and Aragorn, respectively) I'd be interested to get some informal survey feedback. (Your responses will be taken seriously) Jongiorgi Enos - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:28:17 -0400 From: "Quinn Warnick" Subject: Re: [AML] Dutcher on KRAKAUER, _Under the Banner of Heaven_ Jeff Needle wrote: | One question, if I may. You refer to the book as a "novel." Was this a | deliberate comment on how you view the book -- more fiction than fact? This is a | strong indictment, if it's true. Oops. What can I say? It was late, I was typing too fast, and I didn't proofread before hitting "send." The book is definitely not a novel, and I didn't mean to characterize it that way. Thanks for your positive feedback. Long-time lurkers like me rarely post, but when we do it feels nice to know that people are reading. Quinn Warnick - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 08:47:57 -0700 From: "Kathy Tyner" Subject: Re: [AML] Val Kilmer and Joseph Smith I think Hugh Jackman could do an excellent job of portraying both Joseph's known sense of humor and playfulness, (ala Kate and Leopold), while being able to handle the serious aspects of his personality and life, (ala Wolverine), and do the western frontiersman thing, (ala Curly in "Oklahoma). And he seems to have the closer physique to Joseph's body-type. What a hunk. He would be my preference in the role. Including over Val Kilmer. Viggo Mortenson is lesser known to me, although he did a fantastic job in LOTR. Aragorn was, by the nature of the story, more melancholy, but there was the occasional flash of humor as when he wryly smiled upon being begged by John Rhys Davies character, "Don't tell the elf!" Kathy Tyner Orange County, CA - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 10:40:46 -0600 From: Tom Matkin Subject: RE: [AML] Dutcher on KRAKAUER, _Under the Banner of Heaven_ My son has earned his MPA at BYU and is moving this week to Lawrence to pursue his PhD. in the field of public administration. By the time he's done he will have spent half his life in school and probably won't be good for anything except to spend the rest of his life in academia. But that's okay, he's living life as he goes. He married in 1998, in the middle of his last year of his Bachelors program in Recreational Therapy, and moved into a basement apartment in Provo with his new bride. They lived there for 3 years and their landlady was Sister Lafferty. The refrigerator didn't stay cold very well, and there were lots of spiders in the basement, they had no laundry facilities, it wasn't very close to campus, but upstairs was a kind, compassionate, devout lady, who became, for them, something of a surrogate grandmother. We met her many times as we came and went visiting our son and dil. Once I asked her briefly, as we picked grapes together in her garden, about her family, boldly wondering out loud if she was possibly connected to the infamous apostates. She acknowledged that her connection was indeed intimate and tragic and, necessarily, because these are her children, ongoing. Another time we had a long discussion about Michael McLean's "The Ark" which I had just seen at Thanksgiving Point and which she was planning to go to see as well. She seemed to have a keen interest in the LDS arts. I can't remember whether or not I warned her that I had sometime heard Thom Duncan express (probably on this list) his great ambition to explore her family tragedy in some theatrical or literary way. For those three years Sister Lafferty was there as a great friend and generous parental figure to a pair of newlyweds and then new parents hundreds of miles away from their own parents. I have nothing but fond and grateful feelings for this good woman, as do my son and dil. I suspect that if Krakauer treated her quietly and kindly in his book, which someone on this thread wondered about, it was because he came to know her and realized that she is a sweet innocent victim, unworthy of public analysis and shame. Tom - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 13:00:36 -0500 From: "Thom Duncan, replying from the Web" Subject: Re: [AML] Is It Funnier with the Profanity? - --- Original Message --- From: Vholladay5254@aol.com >Does this tell us why we need more good Mormon theatre? Your assumption being, I presume, that good Mormon theatre would never have the "F" word in it? I personally have never used it any of my plays thus far but that's only because I haven't yet written a play where I feel it is needed. (I have used other words in my Mormon plays but not that one.) If the occasion ever come up, however, I would throw the word in without a second thought. Now, would I produce it at my theatre? Not as a main stage production. One of the mandates of the Nauvoo Theatrical Society is to help nurture new plays, the only criterion being that they must be good plays. If we ever decided to do a good play with such language, we would probably do it on an off-night, in more of a reader's theatre environment, and clearly advertise it as an experimental LDS play. Thom Duncan - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 14:05:15 -0500 From: "Thom Duncan, replying from the Web" Subject: Re: [AML] Val Kilmer and Joseph Smith - --- Original Message --- From: "Jongiorgi Enos" > >Or what about Viggo Mortinson? > >(Sorry about the spelling... you know the guys I mean: Wolverine and >Aragorn, respectively) You mean the same Viggo who played the bad boyfriend to Julianne Moore in the remake of Psycho, who had a nice butt shot? So far I haven't anyone suggesting an actor to play Joseph who more approximated his physical type: 6 feet, 200 pounds, (considered porty by some accounts) with a slightly receeding chin. My suggestion would be John Lovitz. Thom Duncan - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ End of aml-list-digest V2 #121 ******************************