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RAIN in Utah



Actually there's only smog; we're in the midst of a long inversion,
which happen here in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake with
unfortunate frequency in the winter.  Ah well, it's what we get for
livin' in Eu-Taw.   I see Peter K. picked up on the story about how
our fair guv wants to have his own historian, vis:

Salt Lake Tribune 01/07/01
Leavitt wants funds for official historian
http://www.sltrib.com/01072001/utah/60594.htm

My comments follow:

No one is better than Guv Mike Leavitt at making himself look
good; he could give Ronald Reagan lessons on the wearing of
teflon.  Now he wants to make sure his "footprints" (i.e. whirling
disease in fisheries, which started in the Leavitt family fishery, the
Olympic scandal, I-15 construction at the expense of everything
else in the state, the rich gettin' richer) have the proper historical
spin.  In the body of the article Dr. Everett Cooley, whom I know
quite well and is one of the deans of Utah history, comments:

 "It's a terrible idea," says Everett Cooley, former
     head of the Utah Historical Society and emeritus
     University of Utah historian. "If he could dictate what
     history would be written, he'd come out looking pretty
     good."

You go Ev!

But that wasn't the only RAIN in Sunday's (1/7/01) SLTRIB; the
following was inside in the UTAH section:

Historian Arrington's Papers to Open for
 Public View

Sunday, January 7,   2001

BY KIRSTEN STEWART
     (c) 2001, THE SALT LAKE
     TRIBUNE

In the two years since Utah State University received the
much-sought-after Leonard Arrington collection, the Mormon
historian's papers have languished in the school's library.
Come spring, the university hopes to have most of it open for the
public to peruse, said Ann Buttars, USU's director of special
collections. Eventually, the entire collection will be available.

The rest of this story can be read at:

http://www.sltrib.com/01072001/utah/60572.htm

And finally, speaking of living  Behind the Zion Curtain, I found the
following this morning as I was seaching for the online version of
yesterday's paper to make note of the Arrington papers story.  It's
interesting for its copyright implications.  This is from today's
(1/8/01) SALT LAKE TRIBUNE:

Monday, January 08, 2001

He Snips the Flicks

BY MARK EDDINGTON
THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE

[dateline:]   OREM [a city in Utah Valley, wherein also resides
Provo and BYU]
                --
CleanFlicks owner Ray Lines is a visionary.  He foresees
the day when people around the world will have access to
wholesome videos they can watch at home. "Saving Private Ryan,"
for example, sans the guts and gore. "Schindler's List" with the
"breast scene" neatly trimmed, or "A League of Their Own," in
which taking the Lord's name in vain joins crying on
baseball's list of thou shalt nots.

The rest of this can be found at:

http://www.sltrib.com/01082001/utah/utah.htm

Some might remember--as is noted in the article--the 15 minutes of
fame a video store in American Fork, Utah (just up the road from
Orem) got by snipping Kate Winslet's assets from copies of
"Titanic."  Obviously, in our pretty, great state, it's OK to watch
1500 people die horrible deaths in a shipwreck but not to see Kate
and Leonardo breathin' heavy in the back seat of a car.  Ah well
again.





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Roy Webb, C.A.
Multimedia Archivist
Special Collections
J. Willard Marriott Library
295 South 1500 East
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah   84112
(801) 585-3073  //  fax (801) 585-3976
rwebb@library.utah.edu

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