Saturday, December 17, 2005

New York Doll

Several friends recommended the indie film "New York Doll", a documentary about New York Dolls bassist Arthur "Killer" Kane, a drugs-sex-and-rock-and-roll
convert to the LDS Church who worked in the Family History Library at the Los Angeles LDS Temple until his sudden death from leukemia shortly following the group's reunion performance at the London "Meltdown" concert.
It's a wonderful film. After seeing it, my daughter said that she has decided you can't really judge people -- if a mesh-stocking red-lipstick drag queen rocker can convert and find peace in the Gospel and live a life of service, anyone can. It's a testament to the good news of the Gospel, and to the goodness of people -- not just Arthur, but his home teacher, bishop, and other friends. Here's the Wikipedia history of the Dolls.

1 Comments:

Blogger Garry Wilmore said...

I'm not into the rock scene, although I have had to learn more about it during the past couple of years because rock music is such an important part of Colin's life. Thus, I had never heard of the movie or the story until now, but I think I will take your advice and watch the film. This sounds like a sort of Alma-the-Younger saga!

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