Kim Peek mega-savant 1951-2009 Kim Peek, inspired the 1988 movie “Rain Man,” Peek, Died when he was 58, He was likely the world’s most famous savant, enduring mental handicaps while at the same time possessing extraordinary gifts of memory and...
Baptists at our Barbecue Tartan (Dan Merkley), a 29-year-old single Mormon man, moves to a new town to put some distance between himself and his mother, who wants nothing more than to marry him off to a nice girl. His adopted community, Longfellow, is half Mormon,...
Granite Flats Granite Flats BYUTV …. Young Arthur and his mother arrive in a small town that quickly becomes a hotbed of mysteries that the boy and his new friends try to...
John R. (Roger) Lasater Air Force general (retired) Not since Joseph Smith was lieutenant general of the Nauvoo Legion has there been a General Authority of the Church who was actually a general. Elder John R. Lasater, sustained in April conference 1987 to the First...
The Best Two Years K.C. Clyde heads the cast in this incisive tale based on director Scott Anderson’s missionary experiences in the Netherlands. Clyde plays Mormon Church elder John Rogers, a once-passionate proselytizer who’s lost his fervor and is merely...
On her LinkedIn page, Sally Meyer writes that she is “an award winning screenwriter and producer of short and feature films.” She explains that she learned to write by reading scripts and books on how to write scripts. She adds, “I live for the rush...
Spencer Burhoe is a well-known and popular figure in the modeling world. He has worked all over the world, from Miami to Milan, and has been open about his membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Burhoe began modeling when he was 17 as the...
Nicole Starr is a native of Springfield, Missouri. Raised by musically inclined parents, she began writing her own original songs when she was just 12 years old. She started off on an old, out-of-tune piano and has since continued to fuel her passion for song-writing...
A year after a pandemic delay, the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic games are officially underway, with the opening ceremonies being held on Friday, 23 July 2021. The events run through Sunday, 8 August 2021. Among the athletes competing on the world stage are 13 members of...
Marilyn Anderson, a lifelong member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (often referred to as “the Mormon Church”), is an 88-year-old violinist. She has been playing the violin since age seven and brings more than eight decades of musicianship to the...
Bruce E. Dana and William G. Fortune are the co-authors of the book Called to Laugh: The lighter side of missionary life. The book, which was released on 12 March 2019, is a collection of 86 stories and 58 cartoons that relate to the sometimes odd and funny happenings...
Peggy Fletcher Stack is an American journalist, editor, and author. She was born in New Jersey as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on 1 July 1951. She is a great-granddaughter of Heber J. Grant, the seventh president of the Church, and a...
James Valentine is currently the lead guitarist for the Grammy Award Winning band Maroon 5. He didn’t start out well known but has always had a passion for music. James was born in Lincoln Nebraska to parents Robert and Shauna Valentine. His older sister Lisa...
Craig Hosking started flying when he was just 8 years old. Now he is a film pilot and aerial coordinator in Hollywood. Since he was young, he was obsessed with flying. He was legally able to fly solo on his 16th birthday making him the youngest pilot in the world. His...
The writer of the hit movie, Galaxy Quest, David Howard, wrote a new in-coming movie, Trek- The Movie. David was born in Utah, but grew up in Arizona. He went to school at the University of Utah and studied playwriting. He didn’t grow up writing however he knew...
“You read and you get paid?” is what many people ask Kirby Heyborne incredulously. “Yes, and I love it,” is his response. You probably remember him from The Singles Ward (2002), The Best Two Years (2004), The R.M. (2003), and Saints and...
It’s Halloween! Which means that everywhere you turn on the radio or the TV, it’s going to get spooky. So why not have a laugh watching these Halloween-themed Studio C videos to celebrate this day? This article was originally published in Meridian...
Artistic representations of the golden plates within the LDS community is not uncommon, but Gordon Andrus took a special take on his replica. You can see it on display at the Church History Museum in its The Heavens are Opened exhibit. On September 21, 2017, Andrus...
ABC’s 25th season of “Dancing With the Stars” premiered on Monday night and if you missed Lindsey Stirling’s performance, you had better watch it now. Like, right now. We’re all familiar with Lindsey’s usual dance partner—her...
On June 5, 2002, Elizabeth Smart was abducted and held captive of nine months. On Tuesday, September 19th, 2017, Fox 13 aired an interview with the now 29-year-old on Crime Watch. She shares the feelings she had after her nine months of captivity. “I felt like it...
Danny Heslop is an American singer / songwriter who has been performing and teaching for over 15 years He covers a wide variety of genres, including funk, jazz, rock, folk and bluegrass. Heslop says several things have helped to inspire his music. Other musicians like...
Aaliyah Rose is best known for her appearance on NBC’s singing competition, The Voice. Before appearing on the show, Rose already had a substantial online presence. Posting videos of her singing since she was 10, the artist has had over 13 million views on...
Bob Bennett was an American politician, businessman and senator for the state of Utah. He passed away in May 2016. Bennett was born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1933. His father, Wallace Foster Bennett, was also a United States Senator. Bennett is also the grandson of...
Michael Okerlund Leavitt (Mike Leavitt) is a U.S. politician of the Republican Party and a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He served as the fourteenth governor of the state of Utah from 1993 until 2003. His re-election in1996 earned him the...
