Originally Posted By wonderingalice Those scamps in the packaging department... No way this was an 'honest' mistake. ;-) Heh heh heh... <a href="http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2005/Oct-07-Fri-2005/news/3708271.html" target="_blank">http://www.reviewjournal.com/l vrj_home/2005/Oct-07-Fri-2005/news/3708271.html</a> Utah families buy 'Diary of a Porn Star' in DVD mix-up SALT LAKE CITY -- Mormon music fans thought they were getting a DVD about the squeaky clean boy band Everclean. Instead, they got "Adored: Diary of a Porn Star." Two Utah families reported the packaging mix-up after buying DVDs at Deseret Book stores, which are owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The DVDs were pulled from the shelves.
Originally Posted By utahjosh It's true. I bought "Sons of Provo," but I got the real thing. BTW, Sons of Provo is a mockumentary style movie about a FICTIONAL boy band in utah. The movie is VERY low budget, but has some laughs. The CD soundtrack is fantastic, but full of Utah/Mormon culture inside jokes. Halestorm Entertaiment is offering $100 to anyone who got the wrong DVD. I feel terrible for that company!
Originally Posted By ecdc The real question is, how many people bought it and quietly kept the wrong DVD?
Originally Posted By wonderingalice Cool, utahjosh... Mormon Spinal Tap! ecdc... It would be kind of a 'legitimate' excuse to take a peek without actually making a knowing purchase, eh? ;-)
Originally Posted By TomSawyer What about the poor folks who ordered the other DVD and wound up with "Osmonds 2000"? That'll take the snap out of the gherkin.
Originally Posted By -em < had to sit through Sons of Provo- Wouldve MUCH prefered a naughty movie to that... Sorry I just dont like "mormon movies" -em
Originally Posted By utahjosh Oh, the Sons of Provo movie is quite clean, but not a very well-made movie. I still LOVE the CD soundtrack. However, if you can't get enough of Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, and A Mighty Wind and other like-minded movies, you might want to catch Sons of Provo. If you're not familiar withe the mormon culture, you probably won't get 90% of the humor. www.sonsofprovo.com (caution, music starts playing immediately) Oh, and it looks like "Adored: Diary of a Porn Star" is NOT a porn flick. It's a foreign film about a gay porn star; I don't know how much "R" or XXX material it contains.
Originally Posted By DlandDug A GAY porn star? This story gets more hilarious with each detail. Hope nobody fired it up on a Monday night at home without checking it out first...
Originally Posted By wonderingalice *LOL* Tom Sawyer! utahjosh... You just named four of my very favorites (Christopher Guest and company are just TOO funny!) I'm not Mormon, but living in Vegas I'm real familiar with a lot of the culture... Might have to give the ol' "Sons" a shot. DlandDug (and Josh), isn't Family Home Evening still on Thursday nights? ;-)
Originally Posted By DlandDug (I know Family Home evening is on Monday night, and I'm not even a Mormon...)
Originally Posted By Elderp I am LDS and the official night the church observes is Monday Night but you are not obligated to have family night monday night. You can have it any night but the church closes all of its buildings Monday and has no meetings that day in order to make it easier on families.
Originally Posted By utahjosh For those who don't know, you can probably guess that Family Night is sort of a tradition for LDS (mormon) families. They are encouraged to dedicate one night a week to spend together. They have fun, teach children lessons from the scriptures, have treats, songs, games, or whatever. It really is a wonderful thing. Doesn't have much to do with the Sons of Provo, however!
Originally Posted By wonderingalice I had friends in high school who had their Family Home Evenings on Thursday nights... probably where I got the assumption.
Originally Posted By DlandDug Monday Night Football (the spawn of Satan, according to some fussy LDSers) has caused many families of football fanatics to move Family Night to a day other than Monday.
Originally Posted By pkonold I thought family home evening night was always whatever night BYU played At least it was at my house....
Originally Posted By ecdc Although the LDS church has said it is ok to hold family night on other nights if Monday doesn't work, it didn't stop them from asking schools and other public institutions from not hosting activities on Monday night so family night can go forward. I live in Utah too, and I think the Mormon church gets a bad rap and is unfairly accused of running a theocratic state. But it's stuff like this that makes people raise their eyebrows.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss I thought I heard somewhere that Utah has one of the highest rates of porn sales in the nation.
Originally Posted By ecdc "I thought I heard somewhere that Utah has one of the highest rates of porn sales in the nation." That one's probably a myth or at least an exaggeration. But the highest incident of anti-depressant use isn't.
