Showing posts with label Sundance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sundance. Show all posts

19 January 2009

David Archuleta at Sundance

 The Los Angeles Times covers an encounter with the young Mormon singer, David Archuleta, while partying during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

Jeff, watching with me, nodded and said: "This is how Mormons party. It's just like kids everywhere, just without the sex and drugs. But there's always lots of music." He credited the Mormon faith for encouraging this devotion to music. "It's about instilling in them a sense that there are no limits to what you can be."

If one wonders where a David Achuleta comes from — a prodigy who expresses himself more naturally in music than in words — this seemed a glimpse at the answer. Through the night, the wandering tribe of 9- to 19-year-olds rarely paused, breaking into song at every possible moment — even, as I soon learned, in extreme circumstances.

23 January 2008

The Sundance Film Festival & Mormons
















The Sundance Film Festival is the most important cultural event that happens in Utah, and attracts thousands of people to Salt Lake City and Park City.  This year, Sundance film fans enjoyed a whimsical reference to Mormons in one of the films on debut at the festival:

In the film "Sunshine Cleaning," a character explains why she doesn't drink alcohol or do drugs, and the character played by Emily Blunt replies, "You should just tell people you're a Mormon."

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