If Mormons "HBO moment" was not bad enough, it seems that Hollywood, Broadway and the publishing world aren't likely to give up on portrayals of Latter-day Saints on screen, on stage and in books any time soon.

Such Mormon portrayals, often stereotypical, have been showing up since the 1800s. For example, When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle introduced detective Sherlock Holmes in the story, "Study in Scarlet."  It was set against the backdrop of anti-Mormon inaccuracies about Latter-day Saints and their beliefs popular in England at the time. On a later visit to Utah he apologized for the inaccuracies.

Here are some more contemporary examples of portrayals of Mormons:

In a  new Woody Allen film, "Whatever Works" actor Ed Begley Jr. thinks that his daughter has been abducted by "polygamous Mormons." The movie takes an especially dim view of organized religion and anything associated with the National Rifle Association, according to the Columbus Dispatch.

"South Park" creators continue work on a play unofficially titled the "Mormon Musical." Variety reports Tony-winning writer Robert Lopez  is working with Matt Stone and Trey Parker. Openly gay Broadway star Cheyenne Jackson has already been cast as a missionary and the show is slated for an Off Broadway opening later this year, according to Variety magazine and the Melbourne Age newspaper. I am sure all of us Mormons can't wait for this one.

In February, a play titled "Funeral Potatoes" premiered in Washington focusing on the subtleties of a Mormon family. The D.C. Theater Scene Web site said this of the play: "Riffing on and off the subtitle- 'Good Wife Always Knows Her Place,' the play centers on a young woman struggling with her family's request that she speak at her grandfather's funeral. In searching for the words and trying to find her voice for this duty, Megan reveals glimpses of her immediate families' expectations, historical legacy, and rebellious and zany outtakes in this delicious collision of life smashing with conservative family values."

Translation: Many Latter-day Saints might find the content offensive.

Best-selling novelist David Ebershoff's book "The 19th Wife" has gotten some acclaim (and has hit the shelves at Costco.) "The 19th Wife" forms a dual plot between Brigham Young's 19th wife, Ann Eliza Young, and a tale of murder involving a polygamist family in present-day Utah. Jordan Scott, a young man who was thrown out of his fundamentalist sect years earlier, must reenter the world that cast him aside in order to discover the truth behind his father's death, according to the author's Web site. What's troubling about the trailer is that Ebershoff said he  went looking for understanding about Ann Eliza Young's experience in polygamist enclaves in Southern Utah.

"Facing East" by Carol Lynn Pearson, which first premiered in Salt Lake City, has gotten noticed on the West coast. A Los Angeles Times reviewer wrote:

"Utah has the country's highest suicide rate for males between the ages of 14 and 25. That grim statistic is given a name and a troubled family in Carol Lynn Pearson's impassioned "Facing East," now at the International City Theatre in Long Beach. This 80-minute agit-prop takes place at the fresh grave of Andy McCormick, the 24-year-old gay son of upstanding Mormons Ruth (Terry Davis) and Alex McCormick (Christian Lebano). A polite memorial service has just concluded -- during which no one mentioned that the deceased took his own life with a gun. Alex, devastated by the ceremony's hypocrisy, decides to hold a second funeral right there in the cemetery. (Stephen Gifford's stark unit set features an open grave, several tombstones and four piles of salt.) This time, he tells his resistant wife, they'll speak the truth. Of course, that honesty will implicate everyone in the family. And there'll be a surprise guest: Andy's partner, Marcus (Daniel Kash)."

In a new book "Between the Assassinations" by Aravind Adiga, the writer sets his story in an India town where  "The Jain basadi (shrine) on the outskirts of town has been purchased by Mormon evangelists from Utah," according to a Australian newspaper.

The Mormon Media Observer is collecting readers' favorite (or not so favorite) portrayals of Mormons on stage, in film and in books. Send your nominations to foiguy@gmail.com.