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...long before Altman woke her from her pre-Hollywood slumber, Duvall had been collecting antique illustrated fairy-tale books. She was charmed by the stories, but bewitched by the pictures: dreamy Maxfield Parrish landscapes, bold N.C. Wyeth seascapes, puckish Arthur Rackham characters. While in Malta in 1980, playing Olive Oyl opposite Robin Williams in Altman's film Popeye, a vision of the rubbery Williams as a vain and manic frog prince leaped into her head, and the notion of Faerie Tale Theatre was born. Each tale would have different players and be colored by the visual style...
...Alan Parrish of the Harvard Institute of Religion explains that the church uses missions as a means of spreading the gospel and as an invaluable learning experience for missionaries. Young Mormon men are strongly urged--but, contrary to common belief, are not required--to fulfill a mission when they are between the ages of 19 and 26. Nearly all of them do, and Harvard undergraduates are no exception. Of the 50 to 60 active Mormons in the College, virtually every male spends two years as a missionary after his freshman or sophomore year...
Teaching takes place in missionaries' apartments, in Mormon churches, and--most frequently--in "students" homes. Missionaries find students by using the-old-fashioned door-to-door method, although Parrish says "it's going out of style," by setting up informational bulletin boards in public places, by approaching people in parks and universities, and by relying upon a snowball effect through which each student interests a few of his friends in attending teaching sessions. Students in Oriental countries are primarily the young: older people are too bound to traditional morals and religions to embrace a new faith...
...Parrish explains, "If you're involved intimately in teaching people about your faith eight or ten hours a day, that is going to become an intensely spiritual experience." One letter he received from a missionary in the field expressed the conviction that it would be worthwhile to die for the gospel...
...discovered the skeletal remains of two, or possibly three, men in an abandoned well in the woods near Blum, in north Texas. Arrested on suspicion of murder: Jerry Van Pendley and Henry Burton Merrill, a hermit and trapper. Then, on Monday morning, in a Dallas suburb, Truck Driver John Parrish, 46, after an argument with employers over $1,600 in wages, went on a rampage, fatally shooting six people and wounding four others at three places where he had worked. He was finally killed in a Shootout with police. A day later, Junett Bryant found her son Ricky...