Come, come ye hippies
Will Swenson, a Utah native, has made a name for himself playing the charismatic half-naked ringleader of the revived Broadway musical Hair. New York magazine offers a profile of the actor who says he is a big celebrity in straight-laced Utah.
Actually, it’s bizarre. I’m nobody in New York, and I get off the plane in Salt Lake and can get recognized immediately. Not as much with my long hair, though, which is lovely.
Many Mormons recognize Swenson from LDS films, including the faith-promoting ones shown on Temple Square.
I don’t practice Mormonism at all anymore, but I grew up in a Mormon family, and my cousin still is, and he made this comedy and asked if I’d star in it. So my friends and I wrote a screenplay for "Sons of Provo," about a Mormon boy band.
He also has appeared in "testimony-building" films of stories from the Book of Mormon.
I’ve played prophets from the Book of Mormon, I’ve played Jesus. Matter of fact, if you go to Salt Lake to the big Mormon visitors’ center, they play a big movie and I’m the voice of Jesus in that. Of course, they’ll probably shut it down knowing I’m doing "Hair" on Broadway.
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Do newspapers in Chicago or Boston talk about "recognized" Catholics in this manner?
Mormons are so obsessed with members of their ranks, current or not, that they always need to bring affiliation up.
Utah, where Mormons are Jews and Jews are Gentiles.
Get over it, Mos.
I don't practice mormonism anymore....?
You mean since you came out of the closet and bumhumping takes up all your free time.....right?
Joseph Smith probably bumhumped, his 14 year old wife Helen Mar Kimbal because that is one technique of Mormon birth control.
Also Smith's dying act of mortally wounding two men with a hand gun that was smuggled into his jail cell is another form of Mormon birth control.
Which one do you prefer Pencil Dick?
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