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Then there are the books. Five. Then the clients: Anatoly Scharansky, Claus Von Bulow, Leona Helmsley, Michael Milken, Jim Bakker, Mike Tyson, Penthouse, Frank Snepp, John Landis, John DeLorean, David Crosby, Patricia Hearst, the Tison brothers, various death row inmates, Rabbi Meir Kahane....There are more...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: Dersh & Me | 10/31/1992 | See Source »

...adds all of the hilarious anecdotes that have happened to him in his months of travel. Where else will you find Naples depicted as a dump and a description of the view of the sea at Capri as something for which the author would trade eyelashes with Tammy Bakker...

Author: By Brady S. Martin, | Title: Fantastic Euro-Voyage | 2/20/1992 | See Source »

Fashion magazines are sprouting models who look like actual women. Cosmetics makers are pushing the "real" look. Get ready for the Tammy Faye Bakker backlash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forward Spin: Feb. 3, 1992 | 2/3/1992 | See Source »

...writer or critic would refuse a chance to look at this trial? It's juicy, sexy, colorful and demanded by the public. The same principles apply to other "faddish" events which mix hard news with sensational and sordid events--like the Clarence Thomas hearings, the Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakker scandals and the recent David Duke gubernatorial campaign...

Author: By Philip M. Rubin, | Title: Sham and Grist | 12/7/1991 | See Source »

...BAKKER knows a vice when he sees it. The convicted preacher has kept busy in the Rochester, Minn., slammer by exhorting fellow prisoners to quit smoking. And he gets results. Prison officials say Bakker, who co-founded the eight-day smoking-cessation program in May 1990, used his "inspirational and motivational" skills to help 116 of the first 125 "students" throw away the packs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He's Got a Calling After All | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

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