LDS popular culture super stars when I was a kid

[Solon]

Originally Posted by ute4ever

First or second edition?

Either/any. I'm aware of the changes McConkie was forced to adopt, but that's not what the folks in parents' ward really care about. I haven't gone to church there in years, but my dad tells me it's the name McConkie - not any particular tenet - that is so revered. I'm sure it's less so among the youngsters, but my parents go to church with a bunch of old-timers (including themselves).

[SeattleUte]

The biggest current LDS pop culture stars seem to me to be as follows:

Gordon B. Hinkley (seems to be more dynamic and worldly-wise than his predecessors)

Mitt Romney

Boyd K. Packer

The Huntsman Dynasty

Orson Scott Card

Orrin Hatch

Jefe

Larry Miller

About Gladys Knight--She's undeniabley an icon in pop music history, but don't you think she's not closely enough associated with LDS culture per se to qualify as an LDS pop culture superstar?

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by SeattleUte

The biggest current LDS pop culture stars seem to me to be as follows:

Gordon B. Hinkley (seems to be more dynamic and worldly-wise than his predecessors)

Mitt Romney

Boyd K. Packer

The Huntsman Dynasty

Orson Scott Card

Orrin Hatch

Jefe

Larry Miller

About Gladys Knight--She's undeniabley an icon in pop music history, but don't you think she's not closely enough associated with LDS culture per se to qualify as an LDS pop culture superstar?

You trolled in there.

Packer? Gimme a break. You must really hale from the Ozzy and Harriett crowd. I'm aware of nobody who idiolizes Elder Packer. They take note and some may agree, but he is not a pop star type persona. He has no strong personality.

Gladys Knight is probably one of the few with popstar type persona for both in and without. Yet she is the only one to have developed it from without before she developed a cause celebre within.

[SeattleUte]

Originally Posted by Archaea

You trolled in there.

Packer? Gimme a break. You must really hale from the Ozzy and Harriett crowd. I'm aware of nobody who idiolizes Elder Packer. They take note and some may agree, but he is not a pop star type persona. He has no strong personality.

Gladys Knight is probably one of the few with popstar type persona for both in and without. Yet she is the only one to have developed it from without before she developed a cause celebre within.

Agree that Packer is the dark horse here. But seems to me Indy/Rocky/Lingo types must idolize him. He represents a dogmatic purity that to them is the ideal. Like it or not, they represnt the mainstream in the LDS fold, you and your tastes and sensitivities and values do not.

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by SeattleUte

Agree that Packer is the dark horse here. But seems to me Indy/Rocky/Lingo types must idolize him. He represents a dogmatic purity that to them is the ideal. Like it or not, they represnt the mainstream in the LDS fold, you and your tastes and sensitivities and values do not.

No my tastes are most common and foul, of that I'm certain.

[All-American]

Originally Posted by myboynoah

I may be treading on thin ice, but I thought it interesting that he went so quickly.

Those Danites are good.

I won't argue with you on that one, though. I can't help but be somewhat suspicious that Joseph Fielding Smith and Harold B. Lee, both of whom maintained that the priesthood ban would remain intact so long as they were alive, had two of the shortest tenures at the head of the church, while Spencer W. Kimball, who should have died well before the prior two, lived so long.

Thin ice indeed. But interesting, nonetheless.

[SteelBlue]

Originally Posted by SeattleUte

The biggest current LDS pop culture stars seem to me to be as follows:

Gordon B. Hinkley (seems to be more dynamic and worldly-wise than his predecessors)

Mitt Romney

Boyd K. Packer

The Huntsman Dynasty

Orson Scott Card

Orrin Hatch

Jefe

Larry Miller

About Gladys Knight--She's undeniabley an icon in pop music history, but don't you think she's not closely enough associated with LDS culture per se to qualify as an LDS pop culture superstar?

Unfortunately my list was far more accurate than yours.

[Mormon Red Death]

Originally Posted by Solon

Either/any. I'm aware of the changes McConkie was forced to adopt, but that's not what the folks in parents' ward really care about. I haven't gone to church there in years, but my dad tells me it's the name McConkie - not any particular tenet - that is so revered. I'm sure it's less so among the youngsters, but my parents go to church with a bunch of old-timers (including themselves).

plus there are a couple McConkies in your parents stake... sons of his I believe.

[SteelBlue]

Originally Posted by Solon

...but my dad tells me it's the name McConkie - not any particular tenet - that is so revered. I'm sure it's less so among the youngsters...

Bingo.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Originally Posted by SeattleUte

The biggest current LDS pop culture stars seem to me to be as follows:

...

Boyd K. Packer

...

Boyd K. Packer? An LDS pop culture star? Now, that's funny.