From: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com (aml-list-digest) To: aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: aml-list-digest V2 #32 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 Tuesday, April 22 2003 Volume 02 : Number 032 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 02:41:59 +0000 From: "Andrew Hall" Subject: [AML] JONES, _Messengers of Truth_ Sunday, April 20, 2003 A really bad film By Jeff Vice Deseret News movie critic "MESSENGERS OF TRUTH" is a comedy about some rather gung-ho LDS missionaries. And it's executed so poorly and is so completely unfunny that you might think it's just a joke. There were times I wondered if it was purposely produced and released by the Halestorm Entertainment guys to make their amateurish "road-show" comedies "The Singles Ward" and "The R.M." look better by comparison. Also, some of the humor is a bit . . . off-color, shall we say? Consequently, while the film is not rated, it would probably earn a PG-13. For those who just can't resist, "Messengers of Truth," which played Friday and Saturday, will continue over the next two weekends at Brewvies Cinema Pub, 677 S. 200 West. (You do have to be 21 or older to patronize Brewvies, by the way.) For show times and ticket prices, call 355-5500. There's also a Web site, www.messengersoftruth.com. [The writer/director is Brent Jones.] Copyright 2003 Deseret News Publishing Company _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 05:52:56 -0600 From: "Alan Rex Mitchell" Subject: Re: [AML] Apologies Harlow, Rest assured that you have done nothing to offend. I was trying to get the point across that some people can be offended by anything. Even puns. I am not. I am only offended if people think they are smarter than me, which is probably a good assumption on which to build a relationship. Alan - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 09:30:28 -0400 From: "Jamie Laulusa" Subject: Re: [AML] _Chicago_ Susan Malmrose: > >Sorry, but I can't buy that. We may be fascinated by it, but we don't >celebrate it. If it were true, people who thought he was guilty would still >love OJ Simpson right now. Me: If we don't celebrate evil, at the very least, we delight in shuddering at it. If we didn't, than the media would find better things to report that which celebrity is cheating on their spouse, in rehab for drugs, dating Brittney Spears, ect. People like that stuff. And I do know people who full-out celebrate it. Their positively gleeful over the prospect of a weekend spent retching in a toilet. "A damn good way to kill brain cells," one of them said. It's amazing. And I'm totally facinated by them. I sat for fifteen minutes in my sister's dorm listening to her mod-mates brag about their level of drunkeness last weekend. So, some of us celebrate evil, and the rest of us like hearing about it. Maybe it makes us feel good about ourselves. ~Jamie Laulusa _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 20:43:18 -0500 From: Linda Adams Subject: Re: [AML] Mapletree Publishing Company At 06:08 PM 4/18/03, you wrote: > I would definitely negotiate on the contract. There are a >few things I'd need changed. (Is it now customary for all publishers to >pay royalties on the wholesale price? I could have sworn it was retail.) Either way is acceptable and it depends on the company's policy. Personally, in the future, I would rather only accept a contract based on the retail price listed on the cover, rather than a variable. Some companies also offer contracts not only based on the variable wholesale price received, but add the double variable of deducting whatever advertising and other costs they'd like to include before calculating your royalties. Read carefully before you sign any legal document. Linda Linda Adams adamszoo@sprintmail.com http://www.alyssastory.com - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 10:16:05 -0600 From: "Thom Duncan" Subject: [AML] Ruth Hale, Co-Founder of Hale Theatre, Dies (from the Deseret News) Ruth Hale, playwright and theater founder, dies Ruth Hudson Hale, 94, matriarch of one of the country's longest-running family theater operations, died Sunday at Highland Care Center of complications of a stroke. Hale, who wrote more than 75 plays and acted in most of them, leaves a legacy that includes a 54-year-old venue in Glendale, Calif.; the Hale Centre Theatre in West Valley City, Hale Center Theater Orem and the rustic Hale Summer Theater on the family's ranch in southern Utah. Her plays are filled with homespun humor, and she exhibited boundless energy on stage. She won numerous awards, including a PBS Peabody Award, a presidential citation from Brigham Young University and a Utah Governor's Mansion Artist Award. In recent years she enjoyed a spin-off career acting in TV ads and doing voice-overs. She was among local celebrities driving animated vehicles in a TV commercial announcing the opening of the first major leg of the I-15 project. She and her husband, James Nathan Hale (who died on Jan. 30, 1994), left Utah during World War II and moved to California. But acting jobs were scarce, and a producer suggested that perhaps they should start their own theater. "You could star in your own shows, and no one could fire you," he said. The comment sparked a dream that resulted in the Glendale Centre Theatre, now celebrating its 54th season in Southern California. The theater quickly gained a loyal following. The couple were parents of seven, and the extended family numbers 160. The Hales attempted to retire about 15 years ago, turning the reins of their Glendale operation to younger family members, and moved to Utah. But retirement didn't last long. "A person could die from watching television and tatting doilies," Ruth Hale said. Instead, she, Nathan and other family members opened a theater in South Salt Lake. Eventually it was replaced by a theater in West Valley City. Today, that venue, the Hale Centre Theater, attracts more than 208,000 patrons annually. Ruth and Nathan Hale served a mission for the LDS Church in Nauvoo, where one of the historic buildings was a vacant theater. They felt that a play geared to missionary work would fill the seats. They wrote "Are the Meadowlarks Still Singing?" about a returned LDS missionary who falls in love with a minister's daughter. The play is frequently performed, free, on Sunday evenings at Hale Centre Theatre as part of an ongoing "fireside" program. McDougal Funeral Home is handling funeral arrangements, which are not yet finalized. - ----- Allow me to append a personal note. The Center Street Theatre exists today because of Ruth and Nathan Hale. As a teenager in Southern California, I knew the Hales and was inspired by their success in operating their theatre on California street in Glendale. If you were LDS and you loved theatre, the Hale Center Theater was the place to go. My ex and I enjoyed our first date on December 11, 1967 at the Hale's. It was, naturally, Christmas Carol. I had the privilege of being in their first production here in Utah, at the Hale Center Theatre, on 400 North in Orem. I've known the family for nigh onto twenty years. The star of the Single's Ward, Cody Hale (and a grandson to Ruth) played my son in a Hale play I performed in the mid-80's. I've shared the stage with both Hales on numerous occasions. When the idea started forming in my head that maybe, just maybe, the world was ready for an all-LDS all-the-time theatre (as J. Scott likes to call it), I was greatly heartened by the fact that Hales had already done a version of it. They are true pioneers in the field of LDS theatre. Nathan and Ruth will be greatly missed but, as with all great pioneers, their legacy will live on after them. - ---- Thom Duncan Nauvoo Theatrical Society in residence at the Center Street Theatre "Mormon artists exploring Mormon life through theatre" - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 13:24:07 -0600 From: "clark" Subject: RE: [AML] Temple in Literature ___ Michael ___ | I'm talking about those Mormons who think reverencing sex=20 | _is_ pretending it doesn't exist. This pretending can take=20 | more than one form. It's not only an insistence that we=20 | never mention sex. It's also the notion that we can=20 | acknowledge the existence of sex, but we never follow the=20 | couple into the bedroom--we must close the door and stay=20 | outside. ___ I guess my point was disputing this. That's why I brought up the = classic noir films. In effect they were very sexual but they did ascribe to the = "we must close the door and stay outside." Yet, as _The Maltese Falcon_ = shows, that doesn't equate to pretending sex doesn't exist. ___ Michael ___ | I'll follow my characters everywhere they go and witness=20 | everything they do. It's what fiction is for. | [...] | I'm recommending telling the story as effectively as possible.=20 | You should include as much information about the sex as you=20 | need, and no more. ___ That's fine. I think you are in the minority on that - unless the = details of personal hygiene really do interest you that much. =20 The fact is that some stories are more appropriate than others. You = might be interested in the story of a person's intestinal track but I don't = think most are. Further that notion of "appropriateness" is key. You suggest that you *don't* think anything goes and instead tie "what goes" to some authenticity relative to a "story." But that merely avoids the question = by pushing it down a level. What makes a story appropriate or = inappropriate? Surely you'd agree that there are some well written, compelling stories = that are inappropriate? Without an other descent to the pornography realm, consider a book that give the *real* *full* look into a killer's mind. Would you *really* be interested in a story that focused in on say = Sadaam's sons and their rape and torture in all its glorious Technicolor? =20 Perhaps you would. And that's fine to me if you are. But surely you'd recognize and understand why most aren't and why they feel it = inappropriate. The key difference is whether this "harmony to the story" is really a sufficient ground so as to justify some writing. =20 Clark - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 16:51:08 -0600 From: Steve Perry Subject: [AML] Ruth Hales Dies Begin forwarded message: > THEATER LEGEND, RUTH HALE, DEAD AT 94 > See http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5679187.htm > href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/ > 5679187.htm">Link > > Ruth Hudson Hale, co-founder of the Hale Centre Theatre, died Sunday > at the > age of 94. She and her husband, Nathan Hale, who died in 1994, founded > four > theaters, beginning with the Glendale Centre Theatre in California in > 1947. > They enjoyed acting in community theater and in films for The Church of > Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They wrote more than 80 plays. At > the > opening of one of her theaters, Ruth Hale said: "I wouldn't care if I > died > onstage. The cast might have a problem, but they could ad-lib around > it." - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 20:46:55 -0600 From: Barbara Hume Subject: Re: [AML] Does Theory Matter? At 04:35 PM 4/21/03 -0700, you wrote: >Here is an article from "The New York Times" to keep in mind when thinking >about the possibility of constructing a "conservative literary theory." >(Or indeed, the utility of any literary theory.) A gentleman on another mailing list I'm on mentioned a book by someone named Vickers, called _Appropriating Shakespeare_. The book is purported to demolish the ludicrous isms that plague the field of literary criticism these days. Anyone have any experience with that book? Barbara R. Hume Provo, Utah - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ End of aml-list-digest V2 #32 *****************************