Word: mormon
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...Historically, when Mormon leaders have been jailed or hidden as has happened twice in the past, it has unified members and enhanced the stature of the leaders. The view is that a leader who remains firm and resolute in his beliefs despite serious consequences to himself is a leader to look...
...Jeffs were with him as well as a number of on-the-run travel essentials, including: several wigs, $67,500 in cash, 14 cell phones, a radar detector, two GPS systems, seven sets of keys, a photograph of Jeffs and his father, and a Bible and a Book of Mormon...
...points out that Jeffs is the leader of the largest and most secretive of the fundamentalist polygamy groups. Llewelln has authored four books on polygamy and is a former polygamist himself; he also worked as Salt Lake County's deputy sheriff, specializing in sex crimes investigations. "From the fundamentalist Mormon polygamist point of view, Jeffs is the quintessential Mormon polygamist because he does not hold himself accountable to any government or societal rules - only his religion. His followers view him as having done nothing wrong except to live his religion and do what a prophet does...
...true, as Rod Stewart so memorably sang, that the first cut is the deepest. Everyone has a favorite early Streep film, a Sophie's Choice or an Out of Africa. But if the first piece you ever saw her in was 2003's Angels in America, those roles--the Mormon mom, the rabbi, Ethel Rosenberg--would be just as indelible. "I asked her, 'How in God's name did it ever occur to you to make Ethel funny?' says Nichols, who directed Angels. "I'm surprised by her every single day we shoot." She may have more surprises...
...blow. With her tomboy haircut and all-around infantile figure (she was 15 at the time the film was shot), it’s hard to believe how mature she had to be to take on such a layered and surprisingly savvy character. Wilson, who played a closeted Mormon in HBO’s “Angels In America” miniseries, is the consummate professional. Jeff goes through every emotion imaginable and Wilson is up for the challenge every step of the way. He is a character actor in a leading man’s body...