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...Books; $8.95). Ever since they were introduced in 1985, Letterman's nightly Top 10 lists have been his show's most reliable laugh getters, a shrewd mix of topical satire and frat-house nuttiness. Recycled in book form, they are just as funny to read. Here again are Jim Bakker's Top 10 Pickup Lines ("Pray here often?"; "Your eyes are the same color as my leisure suit"), Princess Diana's Top 10 Complaints about Prince Charles (always calls Pizza Hut before we've decided on topping we want; that phony British accent), and the Top 10 Least Popular Attractions...
...secretary whose sex tales about Jim Bakker led to the collapse of a televangelical empire is offering rehashed reminiscences by phone. For $2- plus, one can dial 1-900-230-5050 to hear her say such things as "I did not seduce Jim Bakker; I was seduced...
...stands variously for Praise The Lord or People That Love, but PTL, the former evangelistic empire of Jim Bakker, has recently spelled nothing but trouble. In its heyday, PTL operated the biggest all-day, all-God TV network and reached 14 million cable households, in addition to controlling a theme park and retirement village. But its founder's fall and imprisonment shattered the empire and left it bankrupt. Last week it got a new -- and quite unexpected -- owner...
Cerullo won out because the new bankruptcy trustee, Dennis Shedd, preferred to unload all the PTL remains as a unit. Roberts wanted only the TV network, while Cerullo was willing to offer a total of $52 million for all of Bakker's former empire. There were five other eleventh-hour bidders, including a secular TV-ad broker who offered $8.35 million for the cable operation. But Cerullo is the rightful heir, his lawyer pleaded, because "the men and women who created that partnership were Christians." A court hearing on the non-TV transaction will be held next month...
...that at the National Religious Broadcasters ((convention in Washington)) about four or five years ago, in a major address I gave them. I do not know whether Jimmy Swaggart was there, but Jim Bakker was there...