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In the summer of 1972 I was a missionary for the LDS Church in Bandung, Indonesia. In those days we had one day a month we could go to a movie. On that particular day we chose to go see "Bad Man's River". I can't tell you how this movie ended as I got up and walked out in the middle of it! Mind you, this was the ONLY opportunity over a month long period that I could see I movie. In those circumstances, if I was to walk of a movie it must have been a real bowser. As I recall the straw that broke the camel's back was the sad realization that a more or less distinguished actor like James Mason had been reduced to appearing in total Derek. Lee Van Cleef was in his element, but even he was approaching the margin with this one.

In September 1973 I had just returned from two years in Indonesia as a missionary for the LDS Church. The first week end I was back in the US I went out to a movie, and when I came home I flipped on the TV. It was the Midnight Special, a program that had started in my absence. I was familiar with the host Wolfman Jack from his days on radio station XERB. Not so with the first act of the evening. Out comes David Bowie, whom I had never seen, and while attired in a dress he started singing the song with the lyrics "something tells me she the devil's daughter". All the while he started shedding the dress. After two years of an intense "non-worldly" existence as a missionary, it was startling. "My, things must have changed in my absence!"

In August of 1973 I was finishing up a two year stint in Indonesia as a Missionary for the Mormon Church. One day a month we could take an afternoon off and possibly see a movie. On this day we went to see "The Getaway". My district of four missionaries were the only non-Indonesians in the theater. The movie was not dubbed, but instead had sub-titles of varying degrees of accuracy. Some of the translations were real howlers. In one scene set in a bus station some solider goes up to Ali Mcgraw and asks her "are you a Mormon girl?" She says she isn't, and then the soldier says ,"I'm from Orem, Utah, which is right near there to Salt Lake City". Not only was the dialogue a fairly classic example of the Utah dialect of English, but Orem, Utah was my home town. At this bit of dialogue my entire district started cheering. Obviously, the dialoge in and of itself was not worthy of such an enthusiastic response, and a lot of the Indonesians in the audience looked at us and then inquired in whispers what the dialoge in English had been in comparison to the fairly accurate translation, as they were curious why it drew such a reaction from us.