{"id":982,"date":"2007-05-16T17:31:46","date_gmt":"2007-05-16T17:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=982"},"modified":"2007-05-16T17:31:46","modified_gmt":"2007-05-16T17:31:46","slug":"more_on_eric_johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2007\/05\/16\/more_on_eric_johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Eric Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just in case you read my pointless ramblings via an aggregator, or otherwise don’t follow the comments, there’s been an interesting development in regards to yesterday’s entry on the new Flash Gordon<\/i><\/a> series. I’ve been contacted by Andrea, the webmaster for EricJohnsonWeb.com<\/a>, who informs me that the head shot of Eric I saw is seven years out of date. She directed me to this more recent photo<\/a>, and, based on it, I’ve got to admit that I was wrong. A little older now, Mr. Johnson has definitely acquired what I would consider the proper “Flash Gordon look” since that Smallville<\/i> shot was taken. So this latest incarnation of Alex Raymond’s legendary adventure story has that much going for it at least.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, I failed to notice yesterday that Eric has, in fact, done some work I have some passing familiarity with, namely the Work and the Glory<\/i> films. If you haven’t heard of these, don’t feel bad. I doubt that many people outside of Utah have.<\/p>\n


\nThe Work and the Glory<\/i> movies — there are three of them — are based on a series of historical novels<\/a> written for the Mormon market. The books, which chronicle one family’s interactions with Joseph Smith and the early Mormon Church, are immensely popular in these parts, a local phenomenon akin to the Harry Potter series in that its fans read and re-read the books to the point of disintegration. (The Girlfriend’s parents are such fans.) I have no authority to say this, but I would hazard a guess that they are probably the most popular Mormon fiction ever written, based on the number of copies I see being read on the train and in public places. (And yes, Mormon fiction is a distinct, if extremely niche, genre; as you can probably imagine, it’s huge in Utah.)<\/p>\n

The movie adaptations were financed by Utah’s own gazillionaire, Larry Miller — you may remember him from that Brokeback Mountain<\/i> imbroglio<\/a> a year or so back — and, although I never saw them myself, the trailers made them look like the prettiest entries in the “LDS cinema<\/a>” genre thus far.<\/p>\n

Our friend Eric played Joshua Steed, who I believe is the bad brother in the protagonist family (the other brother, of course, converts to the new religion and wins the girl).<\/p>\n

None of which really has anything to do with anything. I just found it interesting…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just in case you read my pointless ramblings via an aggregator, or otherwise don’t follow the comments, there’s been an interesting development in regards to yesterday’s entry on the new Flash Gordon series. I’ve been contacted by Andrea, the webmaster for EricJohnsonWeb.com, who informs me that the head shot of Eric I saw is seven […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-color","category-the-glass-teat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}