Another chance to show off your erudition!

By: Kaimi - May 25, 2004

(I know, I’m using the term icon loosely — it’s not like I had a lot of material to work with here).

14 Comments

  1. Don’t know about Eliza as an icon, but she has the coolest Mom of the bunch!!

    Comment by Kristine — May 25, 2004 @ 9:51 pm

  2. She has kids?! Holy moley!

    I think we can definitely say that the cooler the mormon icon, the more outlandish/apostate they are. Which is why in critical literary circles Neil LaBute is the only mormon with any respect.

    Comment by Steve E. — May 25, 2004 @ 10:08 pm

  3. I’d also add a write-in vote for Glen A. Larson, creator of Battlestar Galactica!!

    Comment by Steve E. — May 25, 2004 @ 10:09 pm

  4. No, Eliza doesn’t *have* kids (that I know of), she *is* the kid of a very cool woman named Judy Dushku, who teaches in the International Studies program at Simmons (I think?) and is an Africa expert, as well as one of the founding mothers of Exponent II and a generally fascinating and wonderful human being.

    Comment by Kristine — May 26, 2004 @ 1:00 am

  5. Ah-hem… ’scuse me (clears throat). Have you forgotten Gladys Knight? She puts the “pop” in “Mormon pop-culture…” :)

    Comment by danithew — May 26, 2004 @ 3:13 pm

  6. Oh. They’re all American. :(

    Comment by Kim Siever — May 26, 2004 @ 3:17 pm

  7. I played the piano at Dale Murphy’s wedding reception (Billy Caspar’s house in Price, Utah). Also, Dale was later the Mission President in Boston area, I believe.

    My parents and sister/brother-in-law lived in Belmont, MA, in the ward with Judy Dushku and Eliza. Judy is sisters with Lisa Arrington, James’s wife, and I wrote a musical with James. There’s your small world.

    I agree, though, that Gladys Knight sort of kicks butt, here.

    Comment by D. Fletcher — May 26, 2004 @ 3:35 pm

  8. I knew I was forgetting someone . . .

    Comment by Kaimi — May 26, 2004 @ 4:23 pm

  9. Glen Larson rocks!
    Although I’m probably thinking of shows like BJ and the bear, Battlestar Gallactica, Buck Rogers, Knight Rider et al through the sugary paradigm of youth.

    I still get stuck when channel surfing and finding one on late at night somewhere.

    Comment by Charles — May 26, 2004 @ 5:56 pm

  10. I’d forgotten (happily) about BJ and the Bear. …

    Comment by Steve E. — May 26, 2004 @ 6:03 pm

  11. I was going to put in my second vote for Danny Ainge, but since that would be a wasted vote I’ll give it to Elizabeth Dushku as the best “anyone but Card” candidate. I’ll try and throw in one more vote tonight from yet another machine.

    Comment by Dave — May 27, 2004 @ 12:27 am

  12. Whatever happened to Glen A. Larson. He’s not had TV shows in *years*. Did he retire? I heard he’d left the church as well.

    Comment by Clark — May 28, 2004 @ 9:43 pm

  13. Aw… I wanted to vote for Tracy Hickman. Oh well, OSC is a good choice too.

    Comment by Joseph N — June 2, 2004 @ 8:04 pm

  14. I can’t access the site. How many times have you guys heard that from me?

    Dale Murphy was, maybe still is, a mission president. A kid in our ward was in that mission and he loved President Murphy.

    Comment by annegb — May 22, 2006 @ 9:02 am