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	Movie Info for The Rainbow Man/John 3:16 on MSN Movies
		The name Rollen Stewart may not mean much to most people, but anyone who watched professional sports on television in the 1970's and 80's would certainly recognize him, and Sam Green's documentary traces Stewart's strange rise to fame as well as his disturbing fall into madness.
		Stewart grew up in a troubled home, and in his early thirties, after a failed marriage, he was making a living growing marijuana and watching a lot of television.
		In 1977, Stewart hatched a plan to become a TV star without going through the usual show business channels -- he put on a rainbow-striped Afro wig, bought a ticket to a Portland Trailblazers basketball game, and captured the attention of a cameraman panning the crowd when he began mugging and dancing for the camera.
	entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=503985 (301 words)

	The Rainbow Man/John 3:16
		Stewart was just another nobody until he started to get national attention on television when he started to dress in bad leisure suits and/or loin clothes and a rainbow afro wig at various basketball and football games around the country.
		Stewart was an odd man, and he also liked to smoke a lot of the wacky tobacky.
		A couple of years later, Rollen was staying in a hotel in Los Angeles and decided that he’d take the maid hostage, covering his windows in his religious placards in an attempt to get his word out across national television to as many people as possible.
	www.dvdmaniacs.net /Reviews/Q-T/rainbow_man.html (671 words)

	The Rainbow Man/John 3:16 - Movie Review
		Rollen Stewart is The Rainbow Man, and this is his story.
		Stewart quickly became disillusioned with the idea of being a celbrity, and with his 15 minutes long since expired, Stewart found Jesus.
		This all ends badly in 1992, as his scheme spirals out of control and Rollen ends up in a room in a Los Angeles hotelroom, holding a hostage and demanding a three hour press conference to expound upon the end of the world, which he states is coming in six days.
	www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/therainbowmanjohn316 (525 words)

	Rollen Stewart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rollen Stewart (born 1945), also known as Rockin' Rollen and Rainbow Man, was a fixture in American sports culture best known for wearing a rainbow-colored wig and holding up signs reading "John 3:16" at sporting events around the United States in the 1980s.
		Stewart was a born again Christain obsessed with "getting the message out" through publicity stunts.
		In the late 1980s, he began a string of bombings, mostly with stink bombs, in newspaper offices and public gatherings.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rainbow_Man (210 words)

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		These comments (from a zine called Verbivore) were made by Rollen Stewart, better known during the last two decades as the Rainbow Man, Rainbow Head, or the "John 3:16" Guy.
		Stewart's ghastly tale is reprinted in The Factsheet Five Zine Reader by Seth Freidman (Crown).
		It all ended when an armed Stewart barricaded himself in a hotel room in 1992, taking a hotel maid hostage for several hours before surrendering.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/vol17/issue06/books.zines.side3.html (234 words)

	Rockin' Rollen Stewart Exhibit
		Rollen claimed he was hounded by authorities at the 1984 Olympics in Sarajevo who took him for a spy, thinking his JOHN 3:16 placard was some sort of coded message.
		Rollen became known as "The Rainbow Man" due to the aforementioned rainbow-hued wig of which he adorned his anointed, holy-madman-head, buzzing as it did with the divine resonance of The Lord.
		In the final analysis, I believe Rollen Stewart became disillusioned with not only his fading fame in the late eighties, as more and more TV directors became wise to his ploys and were able to limit his on-screen antics; but also with the growing realization that his message was not being taken very seriously.
	home.pacifier.com /~dkossy/rainbow.html (2674 words)

	The Straight Dope: Is the guy who held up those 'John 3:16' signs at sports events in jail for life?
		Rock'n Rollen Stewart, the guy who used to hold up those "John 3:16" signs at sports events.
		Rollen figured he'd be able to parlay his underground (OK, background) celebrity into a few lucrative TV gigs and retire rich.
		By now Rollen had gotten his 15 minutes of fame and was the target of increasing harassment by TV and stadium officials.
	www.straightdope.com /classics/a971107.html (732 words)

	Featured Film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		He abandoned his home and marriage to roam the country living out of his car, studying TV Guide each week in a never-ending quest to stay televised.
		Rollen Stewart is now serving three life sentences at the California Men's Colony near San Luis Obispo.
		The Rainbow Man / John 3:16 uses interviews, home movies, news footage and passages from Stewart's unpublished autobiography to tell the life story of a media-obsessed fame-junkie who might serve as a metaphor for fin-de-siecle America.
	www.nyuff.com /2002/realarchive/8th/rainbow.html (219 words)

	Books: Sidebar: Not in Kansas Anymore (Austin Chronicle . 10-13-97) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		These comments (from a zine called Verbivore) were made by Rollen Stewart, better known during the last two decades as the Rainbow Man, Rainbow Head, or the "John 3:16" Guy.
		Stewart's ghastly tale is reprinted in The Factsheet Five Zine Reader by Seth Freidman (Crown).
		It all ended when an armed Stewart barricaded himself in a hotel room in 1992, taking a hotel maid hostage for several hours before surrendering.
	weeklywire.com /ww/10-13-97/austin_books_feature1_side3.html (276 words)

	Amazon.com: The Rainbow Man/John 3:16: DVD: Rollen Stewart,Sam Green (II) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Rollen was born into a crappy family and later after a crappy marriage he began smokin' lots of weed and decided to make himself into a celebrity by acting like an ass while wearing a rainbow colored afro wig at nationally televised sporting events.
		Driving all those miles, Rollen must have hit one too many potholes and knocked a screw loose cause he became convinced that the rapture was gonna happen soon (like this week) and that he needed to warn as many people as possible now.
		Stewart's intrepid, single-minded pursuit of the TV camera as a means of spreading "the message" of Jesus' love became an obsession about an approaching apocalypse.
	www.amazon.com /Rainbow-Man-John-16/dp/B0001YJEYI (1677 words)

	BCCN: John 3:16
		Stewart was not the polite, slightly ironic figure in Taylor's song who knew how to wink at his detractors.
		Lonely and depressed, Stewart donned a rainbow-coloured Afro wig and began to appear at sporting events around the country, dancing and playing with his super-long moustache for the TV cameras.
		Unfortunately, Stewart also suffers from a martyr complex fed by a shallow, self-serving theology, as well as a weakness for methods that proved to be counter-productive, if not dangerous.
	www.canadianchristianity.com /cgi-bin/bc.cgi?bc/bccn/0898/bannerman (585 words)

	ESPN Classic - Rockin' Rollen was one sign of the times
		Some sports figures are popular, but some are something else -- they bend our mind, or tickle our funny bone, or move our groove thang, or inspire us to go the extra mile.
		His athleticism had made him popular, and his activism made him hip, but "Pre" didn't reach his greatest heights as a cult figure until he died in a car crash at age 24 and left the world wondering what he might have done next.
		Rollen and his rainbow-colored afro debuted at the 1977 NBA Finals, and after that, they were in the crowd and on the screen for televised sporting events everywhere.
	espn.go.com /classic/s/2002/0120/1314720.html (1819 words)

	GreenCine \| product main - The Rainbow Man: John 3:16 (1997)
		It would have been very easy for "Rockin'" Rollen Stewart to fit into his role as a local loser, taken to spending long afternoons in his easy chair smoking reefer.
		Stewart began to brood on the nature of the celebrity and the value of recognition.
		At the 1980 Rose Bowl, Stewart tired of the rigors as a professional freak and began to contemplate that maybe there was more to life (let's hope so!).
	www.greencine.com /webCatalog?id=99644 (831 words)

	St. John's Episcopal Church - Thursday, March 1, 2007
		Thanks to a man named Rollen Stewart, John 3:16 has probably become the most known, quotable verse from the Bible.
		Stewart is the guy we have all seen on T.V. with a rainbow colored wig, holding up a card that reads, simply enough "JOHN 3:16".
		His theory is that you will open up the bible to see what the sign is about, and while you are there find the rest of the gospel.
	www.stjohnsmontgomery.org /content.asp?id=95438 (352 words)

	The Straight Dope: What's with those "John 3:16" signs that people hold up at football games?
		He's an off-the-wall born-again Christian whose mission in life is to get his signs (and his mug) on national TV as often as possible, the better to spread the word of the Lord.
		Rollen's original idea was that he would parlay this shtick into a job as a media pitchman, but his only big score was a role in a Budweiser commercial.
		Indeed, he envisions the day when he'll be at the controls of Sign Flasher Central, directing the efforts of evangelical exhibitionists across the U.S. by means of TV monitors and cordless telephones.
	www.straightdope.com /classics/a2_186.html (584 words)

	Boing Boing: Pre-school cartoon character reminiscent of loony "rainbow man"
		I thought of Rollen Stewart -- AKA the "Rainbow Man" -- a nutty and notorious guy who wore a rainbow-colored wig and waved signs about Jesus at professional sporting events in the early 80s.
		I wasn't happy, though, and one night I had a religious experience and was born again as a Christian." This historic conversion took place after the 1980 Super Bowl in Pasadena.
		Subsisting on one meal a day, and smoking massive quantities of pot, Stewart began a blitzkrieg for the Lord, working twelve sporting events a month as he fervently flashed his JOHN 3:16 message on placards, signs and T-Shirts, spreading The Lord's Word in his own unique fashion.
	www.boingboing.net /2006/01/11/preschool_cartoon_ch.html (393 words)

	The Rainbow Man/John 3:16 (1997) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		from Dallas, TX A fascinating study of the descent into madness of Rollen Stewart, aka, the Rainbow Man. Stewart garnered national attention when he appeared in leisure suits and a rainbow wig at several Superbowls and other sporting events.
		At some point in the '70's, he gave up the "disco" lifestyle and was born again.
		The film depicts the dark side of fundamentalism by documenting the gradual take over of Stewart's personality by his Messianic complex.
	us.imdb.com /title/tt0138051 (240 words)

	Comments on 20803 \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		That gentleman was named Rollen Stewart and while he was ubiquitous for a time, he came to sad and bizarre end.
		His rise and fall detailed in this article and a short movie is an interesting cautionary tale about the nature of celebrity in a media saturated world.
		At the scene police found Rollen's infamous blue, red, yellow, green, purple and pink Afro wig, along with a high caliber pistol, various incendiary devices, three days of food and Bibles.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/20803 (699 words)

	Flynn Files: Comment on A Tale of Two Olympic Gate Crashers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Although he did not physically impose himself on any sporting event or participant I think the father of this type of behavior was "Rockin" Rollen Stewart.
		Rollen unfortunately was mentally disturbed and his demise was very sad and tense, in a hotel room near LAX.
		Rollen Stewart was the original sporting event renegade.
	www.flynnfiles.com /cgi-bin/mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=456 (257 words)

	Sermon 4.18.04
		It all started years ago when a man named Rollen Stewart came up with a novel idea to get his fifteen minutes of fame.
		At just the right moment, Stewart would jump up in front of a TV camera to be seen by the world.
		When Stewart was arrested some years ago, his loyal followers continued his placard-raising ministry.
	www.markdroberts.com /htmfiles/sermons/4.18.04.htm (2681 words)

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	www.youtube.com /?v=51WD1nghrYs (61 words)

	Frank Chirkinian: front and center! Coming up, a TV legend with revelations on Bobby Jones, Spider-Man and the guy in ...
		You're going to be spending most of your time with your funny wig behind bars." That was the end of Rollen Stewart, at least for us.
		[Stewart was sentenced to three life prison terms for taking a hotel maid hostage in 1992.]
		Movies in fl and white tend to be predicated on human emotion and are uplifting.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0HFI/is_9_54/ai_106995783 (914 words)

	Cipherdom: Everybody Plays the Fool
		My costume was Rockin' Rollen Stewart (aka "Rainbow Man" and "John 3:16 Guy").
		Though it might not prove my idea was original -- maybe just obscure -- about 1 in 10 people recognized Rockin' Rollen without prompting.
		About half the people got it after a little explanation, which is the whole idea, to start conversations.
	www.friends-partners.org /tom/blog/archives/000075.html (225 words)

	911 Media Arts Center: January '98 Screenings
		That guy is Washington native Rollen Stewart, a media-hound obsessed with getting free airtime for himself and his religious message.
		Part King of Comedy, part Taxi Driver, Rollen's sordid tale is compelling to those of us raised with a TV as a baby sitter.
		The rise and fall of this one-man media virus is attributed to a steady diet of the alienation and meaningless that is television.
	www.911media.org /events/screenings98/january.html (424 words)

	Ed Driscoll.com: The Rainbow Man
		While I was at the gym today, one of the TVs in front of the treadmills had ESPN on, but with no sound.
		That was Stewart, who's lead a life far stranger than his antics at football games.
		No reason, except having Googled Stewart's bio to discover who the Rainbow Man was after watching a silent broadcast of ESPN, I figured I might as well share the results.
	www.eddriscoll.com /archives/005770.php (946 words)

	Overstock.com: The Rainbow Man (DVD) : Movies
		Sporting events in the 1970s were frequently given a dash of color if Rollen Frederick Stewart was around.
		Known as The Rainbow Man, Stewart attended events dressed extravagantly in a colorful afro wig, and wielding a sign saying John 3:16.
		Description: Sporting events in the 1970s were frequently given a dash of color if Rollen Frederick Stewart was around.
	www.overstock.com /cgi-bin/d2.cgi?PAGE=PRODUCT&PROD_ID=1092308&cid=97279&fp=F (421 words)

	The Rainbow Man/John 3:16 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The film relates the strange and tragic story of Rollen Stewart, better known as Rock'n Rollen, from his trauma-scarred childhood, through his salad days as the Rainbow Man at the height of the disco era, to his present incarceration.
		The piece unfolds through a series of vignettes, using home movies, still photos, found footage, TV images, and interviews with Rollen himself.
		The film feels like fiction as it reveals one man's transformation from fame-obsessed partygoer into a gospel-preaching criminal.
	www.filmscouts.com /scripts/film.cfm?film=rai-man (176 words)

	Project Page \| The Weather Underground - Essay
		"Two impulses inform my approach to potential film subjects: stories that resonate with me emotionally, and my desire to be engaged with the world," says Green, explaining why he chose to chronicle Stewart's admittedly kooky life.
		(Stewart first gained notoriety by sporting a rainbow wig and jumping in front of TV cameras at major sporting events.) "I identified with [Stewart] in the sense that he wanted to accomplish something.
		Everybody wants to be significant in some way." The 40-minute documentary, which premiered at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival, weaves news clips, home movies, interviews, and archival footage into a richly textured plait that is both a critical essay on the media and a modern fairy tale about a misguided and ultimately tragic hero.
	www.channel.creative-capital.org /project_249.html (748 words)

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		On July 13, 1993, Rockin' Rollen Stewart was found guilty for the Sept '92 "hostage drama" and sentenced to three life prison terms.
		An LA Times letter to the editor--written shortly after Rockin' Rollen's conviction--called rightly into question the inequality of the American justice system in regards to The Rainbow Man. The text read: "Tell me how this adds up right?
		A drunk driver in Ventura, after four years in the courts, gets less than two years for killing three young men, while Rollen Stewart, the Rainbow Man, gets three life sentences for holding someone hostage and displaying religious placards.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=3964124&postID=109066881064221667 (217 words)

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