Mormon Media Observer: Beyond the HBO moment

Published: Friday, July 3, 2009 9:07 p.m. MDT
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If Mormons' "HBO moment" was not bad enough, it seems that Hollywood, Broadway and the publishing world aren't likely to give up on portrayals of Latter-day Saints on screen, on stage and in books any time soon.

Such Mormon portrayals, often stereotypical, have been showing up since the 1800s. For example, When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle introduced detective Sherlock Holmes in the story, "A Study in Scarlet." It was set against the backdrop of anti-Mormon inaccuracies about Latter-day Saints and their beliefs popular in England at the time. On a later visit to Utah he apologized for the inaccuracies.

Here are some more contemporary examples of portrayals of Mormons.

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