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Disgraced televangelist JIM BAKKER, he of the PTL ministry, has teared up on TV plenty of times, so an interview with BARBARA WALTERS was probably no big deal. Bakker, who's on parole after serving five years of an eight-year fraud conviction (chief duty: cleaning halls and toilets), says he now realizes it was wrong for a man of God to be paid such a high salary. He learned this, he says, from the Bible, a book he was apparently not so familiar with before his prison stint. He also tells Walters that a fellow inmate tried to rape...
...flamboyant personal-injury and defense attorney dubbed the King of Torts; in San Francisco. Belli pioneered the use of "demonstrative evidence" (unveiling an artificial limb, baring a client's disfigurement) to win over juries, and took on a variety of mass-disaster cases, as well as representing televangelist Jim Bakker and Jack Ruby, the killer of Lee Harvey Oswald...
...nails others. If the book lacks larger consideration of Nightline's place in the TV-news universe, it does offer a fine appreciation of Koppel's interviewing technique. He has always stood apart for his unmatched ability to focus, his knack for cutting through obfuscation. With Jim and Tammy Bakker, Koppel recalls that he was "worried about going after them too hard," yet jumped in as soon as the televangelists started quoting Scripture: "Is it going to be possible to get through an interview with both of you without you wrapping yourselves in the Bible?" To Michael Dukakis, who persisted...
AILING. TAMMY FAYE MESSNER, 54, former wife of televangelist Jim Bakker; with colon cancer. Her current husband, Roe Messner, sentenced to prison last week for bankruptcy fraud, has prostate cancer...
...money. After six weeks on a regular show, God's gift to the mascara industry has quit. The Jim J. and Tammy Faye Show, airing in almost half the country, proved to be too much for the former wife of disgraced televangelist Jim Bakker, especially while husband Roe Messner faces fraud charges...