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	Tammy Faye Bakker, 65, Emotive Evangelist, Dies - New York Times
		Tammy Faye Bakker, the diminutive and elaborately coiffed gospel singer who, with her first husband, Jim Bakker, built a commercial empire around television evangelism only to see it collapse in sex and money scandals, died Friday at her home near Kansas City, Mo. She was 65.
		Bakker was convicted of federal charges that he had bilked followers out of $158 million by offering lifetime vacations at Heritage USA while knowing he could not provide them and that he had diverted about $3.7 million to support an opulent lifestyle.
		Bakker’s wife vowed to stand by her man. When he was found guilty of fraud and conspiracy, she appeared at a news conference and, in tears, sang, “On Christ the solid rock I stand/All other ground is sinking sand.”
	www.nytimes.com /2007/07/22/us/22bakker.html?ex=1342756800&en=ae815c9d3b425380&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (1122 words)

	Tammy Faye - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tammy Faye Bakker Messner (born Tamara Faye LaValley on March 7, 1942 in International Falls, Minnesota), is the former wife of televangelist and later convicted felon Jim Bakker.
		Though the show presented a side of Tammy Faye, and of evangelism, that many Americans had probably never seen before, of open-minded, compassionate, and non-judgmental friend to all she met, there were also moments during the show where Messner was clearly uncomfortable.
		Tammy Faye Messner's new husband said Bakker and his former wife didn't want to talk about the tax issues: "We don't want to stir the pot." He also said that the original tax amount was about $500,000, with penalties and interest accounting for the rest.
	www.peekskill.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Tammy_Faye_Bakker (1068 words)

	Jim Bakker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Orson Bakker (born January 2, 1939 in Muskegon, Michigan) is an American televangelist, Assemblies of God preacher, and evangelist beset by scandal, and the former host of The PTL Club (PTL being an acronym for 'Praise the Lord' and 'People That Love') with his then-wife Tammy Faye Bakker.
		The Bakkers greatly contributed to the growth of the network, but their success with a variety show format (including interviews and puppets) sparked controversy, and they were eventually forced out by Robertson in the early 1970s.
		Jerry Falwell called Bakker a liar, embezzler, sexual deviate, and "the greatest scab and cancer on the face of Christianity in two thousand years of church history." Falwell was rumored to be using the situation to gain control of a leading broadcast competitor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jim_Bakker (1463 words)

	Tammy Faye - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was on the program that Tammy Faye announced, on July 20, 2005, that cancer had returned to her lungs.
		Tammy Faye and previous husband Jim Bakker are referred to in Frank Zappa's song Jesus Thinks You're a Jerk from the Broadway the Hard Way tour of 1988, and released post-PTL scandal in 1989.
		Tammy Faye's roots might also be Canadian, as there is both a township and community near her hometown of International Falls, called La Vallée.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tammy_Faye_Bakker (1285 words)

	Welcome to the Best of New Orleans!
		Asked to remove her makeup, Tammy Faye reveals that her eyebrows and lipstick liner are "permanent;" essentially, they're tattoos that cannot be altered in any way.
		Raised the oldest of nine children in a lower-middle-class Minnesota home, Tammy Faye met Jim Bakker in a small Bible college and married him in 1960 when she was only 17 years old.
		(Tammy Faye never speaks ill of her ex-husband.) And strive though it might, I remain unconvinced that Jim is the utter innocent the documentary would have us conclude.
	www.bestofneworleans.com /mov/revarch/tammyfaye.html (1334 words)

	Jim Bakker -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Bakkers greatly contributed to the growth of the network, but their success with a variety show format (including interviews and puppets) sparked controversy, and they were eventually forced out by Robertson in the early (The decade from 1970 to 1979) 1970s.
		Bakker was (Click link for more info and facts about indicted) indicted on federal charges of fraud, tax evasion, and racketeering.
		In 1993, after serving almost five years of his sentence, Bakker was granted ((law) a conditional release from imprisonment that entitiles the person to serve the remainder of the sentence outside the prison as long as the terms of release are complied with) parole for good behavior.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ji/jim_bakker.htm (1343 words)

	02/22/01 TWN-National News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The son of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker returned to Charlotte, North Carolina, where his family and their ministry broke up in a sex scandal and a $158 million fraud that cheated thousands of investors in a religious theme park.
		Jay Bakker, who is heavily tattooed, flew in Feb. 13 to sign copies of "Son of a Preacher Man" – his take on the scandal that brought down his family’s religious empire and carved their last name into American folklore.
		Tammy Faye Messner, who now lives in Matthews, was there in spike heels and an all-fl outfit to pose for photos.
	www.twnonline.org /newsarchive/010222/national_news.htm (869 words)

	BBC News \| ENTERTAINMENT \| All eyes on Tammy Faye
		Tammy Faye, whose credibility was much maligned following the spectacular collapse of her TV ministry in the 1980s, credits the documentary with providing an authentic portrayal.
		Tammy Faye even spent time promoting the documentary in New York with a special appearance at a gay bar where she was mobbed by adoring fans.
		Tammy Faye maintains she was one of the few Christians who never condemned gay people.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/845156.stm (674 words)

	Willamette Week \| Screen
		Tammy Faye's story, like that of the besieged queer icon Judy Garland and her tormented offspring Liza, is filled with drama, eyelashes and the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.
		The general theme is that Tammy Faye and Jim were naïve do-gooders who were snookered out of their hard work many times by conniving Christians and feasted on by a hungry media looking to find a symbol of the decade's greed and shallowness.
		Tammy Faye seems to be an open book; indeed, that may have led to her downfall.
	www.wweek.com /html/screena080900.html (1067 words)

	Flak Magazine: Review of The Eyes of Tammy Faye, 08-28-00
		Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
		The Eyes of Tammy Faye is made in full cooperation with its namesake, and this should give any audience pause for thought — the filmmakers are clearly sympathetic to their subject, and amongst the money, drugs and backstabbing of the Christian Right, Tammy Faye is made to shine as a beacon of loopy, lovable goodness.
		At the same time, the film works a little too hard to establish Tammy Faye as a fixture of gay camp — its narration (by Rupaul Charles) and repeated interviews stressing her gay-friendly outlook present her as a sort of pro-gay Christian martyr.
	www.flakmag.com /film/tammy.html (560 words)

	Arts & Leisure: Life Goes On (Memphis Flyer . 08-21-00)
		Tammy Faye went from being a partner in the largest Christian satellite network in television history and a co-owner of a successful amusement park to a woman convicted in the court of public opinion.
		Tammy Faye is adamant that Jim Bakker has done nothing wrong and insists that she would begin a ministry with him again if he asked.
		Tammy Faye is forging ahead, hawking her book, her movie, and a new line of bath products.
	weeklywire.com /ww/08-21-00/memphis_socvr.html (912 words)

	Quiet Revolution Of The Punk Priest Son Of Jim And Tammy Faye Bakker Winning Converts To Christianity
		But Bakker is attracting headlines not just for his message, but also for who he is. Jay Bakker is the son of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, America's most famous evangelical Christians, whom many see as giving birth to modern evangelism with its glamour, unbridled wealth and huge political influence.
		Bakker is brutally blunt about megachurches and their celebrity pastors whose political influence is often only matched by their capacity to raises millions of dollars.
		The freefall from grace of the Bakkers was completed when Jim was sentenced to 45 years in jail and Tammy Faye divorced him for one his best friends.
	www.rense.com /general63/quiet.htm (859 words)

	iFMagazine.com Reviews - THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE
		At first shot of Tammy Faye she is sitting in her pink chair with her two fluffy poodles plopped beside her and her heavy make up firmly applied.
		Tammy Faye tells most of her story while RuPaul Charles, Bailey and Barbato are the manager of the famous He/She Charles, fills in the blanks with scattered narration.
		THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE is an interesting piece on a fascinating woman that holds together nicely throughout but once you “get” what kind of woman Tammy Faye is the rest is the equivalent of lumpy, clumpy mascara applied over and over and over again to an extreme point of redundancy.
	www.ifmagazine.com /review.asp?article=773 (613 words)

	NPR : The Re-Invention of Tammy Faye (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tammy Faye Messner at a recent look-alike contest at a Washington, D.C. nightclub.
		Tammy Faye Messner, on her newfound fame in the gay community
		She and her husband Jim Bakker once ruled over an empire that included lavish homes, the Heritage USA theme park and a Christian broadcasting network with its own satellite.
	www.npr.org /programs/atc/features/2002/june/tammyfaye (835 words)

	ipedia.com: Jim Bakker Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Jim Bakker (born January 2, 1939, Muskegon, Michigan) is an American televangelist, Assembly of God preacher and Evangelist, and the former host of The PTL Club (PTL is an acronym for 'Praise the Lord' and 'People That Love') with his wife Tammy Faye Bakker.
		Bakker, who apparently made all of the financial decisions for the PTL and kept two sets of books to conceal the accounting irregularities, took conspicuous consumption to new extremes.
		Bakker's actions and convictions not only affected the reputation of other televangelists such as Jimmy Swaggart, but also resulted in a dirty fight for the control of PTL among several other prominent televangelists.
	www.ipedia.com /jim_bakker.html (994 words)

	The Eyes of Tammy Faye Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		Rescuing disgraced televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker from the slag heap of discarded tabloid scandals, directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato with their new documentary, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, have fashioned a lively, loving portrait of one of the world's true eccentrics.
		Tammy's story doesn't end with the demise of the PTL Club, however, and Bailey and Barbato continue the tale as she co-hosts a short-lived talk show with gay comedian Jim J. Bullock, and pitches her ideas for a new series to a skeptical Steven Chao, the head of the USA network.
		As an evangelist, Tammy Faye was a witness for the Lord, so it's perhaps only fitting that she makes such an excellent witness for her own story.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=130145 (538 words)

	Review: The Eyes of Tammy Faye
		TAMMY Faye Bakker was, with her husband Jim, one of the most successful televangelists of the 1970s and 80s.
		Then Falwell offered the Bakker's posts in his organisation and used their lists of requirements - made in good faith - to suggest that the Bakkers were greedy and unapologetic contrite.
		Tammy Faye - the innocent party in all this, at least as far as the documentary is concerned - divorced Jim, and remarried.
	www.iofilm.co.uk /fm/e/eyes_of_tammy_faye_1999.shtml (522 words)

	Tammy Faye Bakker
		Tammy Faye Bakker (born March 7, 1942) is the former wife of televangelist Jim Bakker.
		She is best known for both her tendency to wear too much mascara and the infidelity and fraud of her former husband.
		She made an impassioned plea for all other people to cast off the things that are holding them back, to be happy with themselves whoever they are, to persevere in the face of opposition, and to show each other unconditional love.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/tammy_faye_bakker (689 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| 'The Eyes of Tammy Faye'
		The Eyes Have It: Tammy Faye Bakker was as famous for her mascara as she was for her televangical excesses.
		Tammy Faye Baker--saluted in the documentary The Eyes of Tammy Faye--is remembered by the public both for her weeping in disgrace and for her copious use of eye makeup, thus the famous tear-streaked mascara that made her a national favorite.
		Tammy Faye might be the generous, unhomophobic person that she's portrayed as here.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/07.27.00/tammybaker-0030.html (588 words)

	Ace Weekly
		The movie is a biography of Tammy Faye, beginning with her birth, but largely concerned with her tumultuous relationship with good ol' Jim Bakker, from marriage to public humiliation and imprisonment.
		Tammy Faye Bakker has been/is an object of so much scorn and public ridicule that one would expect this to be a savaging of her tacky fashion sense and troweled on make-up, her emotional...
		Hell, even Jim Bakker comes off kind of OK. While the filmmakers never once legitimize what Bakker was doing, they do indicate he wasn't bilking the public of millions for his own benefit, but for his deranged vision of PTL and his Heritage USA theme park.
	www.aceweekly.com /Backissues_ACEWeekly/000907/film000907.html (670 words)

	Tammy Faye Bakker
		The Bakkers' income as professional Christians allowed them to own several lavish homes, and PTL even built a Christian theme park, before their ministry collapsed in scandal.
		As investigators closed in, the Bakkers signed their ministry over to Jerry Falwell, and Jim Bakker was convicted of fraud and sent to prison.
		She was profiled in a 1999 documentary, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, which, along with a subsequent appearance on The Surreal Life, significantly softened her public image.
	www.nndb.com /people/063/000023991 (374 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker
		Husband and wife televangelist team Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker became a prominent part of American popular culture in the late 1980s when their vast PTL ministry was hit by scandal and accounts of fraud.
		The Bakker affair--and the activities of other TV preachers in the news at the time--inspired a popular reaction against TV preachers, and, fairly or unfairly, the Bakkers were seen as the embodiment of eighties materialist excess and Elmer Gantry-like religious hypocrisy.
		To some of the Bakkers' detractors, however, "PTL" stood for "Pass the Loot," an allusion to the Bakkers' frequent and often lachrymose fund-raising appeals on the air and to their lavish lifestyle (including, it was later disclosed, an air-conditioned doghouse for their dog).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200062 (875 words)

	Eyes of Tammy Faye, The (2000) . Movie reviews by Dr. Edwin Jahiel.
		Examples: "Tammy is one of the most adored and reviled women of her time." Do the makers really believe that she was/is a concern of most Americans, not to mention the rest of the planet?
		Tammy was and remains a Class A oddity who cannot be taken seriously as she recounts her life from its beginnings to the Odyssey of the Tammy-Jim Bakker duo, its rise and fall, to developments and updates through recent times.
		Apparently he hated PTL because (among the reasons given by Tammy) he was against its all-embracing nature, its acceptance of all denominations, of gays, addicts, and so on.
	www.prairienet.org /ejahiel/eyes_of_tammy_faye.htm (1238 words)

	Amazon.ca: Video: Eyes of Tammy Faye [IMPORT] (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tammy Faye Bakker, she of the layers of makeup that made her face into a living Halloween mask, will forever remain a camp icon of '80s culture for many of us.
		Tammy Faye Bakker explains what really happened to her and her husband when they lost control of the first and most successful television ministry of its kind.
		Ultimately this becomes rather fascinating because letting Tammy Faye make her own defense is going to convince her critics that she is a pathetic clown, it is also going to allow her defenders to see her as a persecuted martyr.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000560WG (2349 words)

	Short Persons Support: Who's Who of Short People : Biography : Tammy Faye Bakker (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tammy Faye Bakker and her husband Jim began their career as a traveling ministry, preaching in various cities throughout America in the early 1960s.
		Tammy Faye's trademark was established on these shows.
		The Bakkers' empire began to unravel in 1980, when the national spotlight fell on her husband's adulterous affair.
	www.shortsupport.org /cgi/whowho_bio.cgi?seq=10&orderby=height&direction=ASC (227 words)

	Integrity (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bakker presided as king over one of the most corrupt television ministries of the past two decades, and his rise and fall also exposed the dark underbelly of the organization as other televangelists fought for control of the pseudo-Christian empire.
		Bakker was later convicted of fraud, and served five years in prison.
		Bakker and his wife, who professed Christian love and family values on their popular TV show, took 1980’s greed and conspicuous consumption to new extremes.
	www.sportmanager.com /integrity.htm (3822 words)

	My Week ~ Tammy Faye Bakker and Karla Le Vey
		Tammy Faye was the guest of honor at ad man Bob Pritikin's perennial, and perennially odd, Labor Day bash.
		Tammy Faye was dressed in fl slacks, a fl turtleneck, Chanel fl suspenders and a gold Chanel belt.
		In honor of Tammy Faye, Christ was depicted with false eyelashes.
	www.altmanphoto.com /my_week_8_sept_13.html (442 words)

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