By now, most AMV readers have heard that the documentary on New York Dolls bassist and Mormon convert Arthur Kane that I asked about last July is by an LDS filmmaker and screened at Sundance. Coverage has appeared in the Deseret News, and elsewhere.

But I did find something that may be new for you all. The Deseret News story confirms what dantithew wondered about over at Times & Season — that filmmaker Greg Whiteley, he did meet Arthur Kane when he was assigned as his home teacher. But this indieWIRE interview gives more of the story and includes a peek into what Kane was like as a person and Mormon and his hopes that the New York Dolls would reunite. I don’t know what the leadership of the LDS Church thinks about this whole thing. But I’d say it’s one of the best stories about the importance and power of home teaching — esp. home teaching those on the ‘fringe’ of you ward — I’ve ever read.

Whiteley says: “He talked a lot about his hope that one day the band would reunite. This seemed completely impossible to me since they hadn’t played in 30 years and three of the band members had died, but we prayed for it to happen anyway.”

ALSO: See the AP story.

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