Word: bakkers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHAT WAS not tremendous was the show biz gimmickry, from stupid patter about Jim and Tammy Bakker to the vastly overrated spinning song wheel. This business detracted from the music itself--and for no apparent purpose. It is strange that someone like Costello, generally acknowledged as one of the greatest lyricists in music, resorts to pat jokes about the Beastie Boys, CNN News and Oliver North. It's almost as if he wants to start a second career as Jay Leno...
Televangelist Jim Bakker once broached the delicate subject of his finances to his huge television congregation. "You know, one time they accused me of being a wealthy man," he said. Then, looking sincerely into the camera, he told the audience that when an audit was carried out "several years ago" his net worth "came...
That declaration was made in late 1985. Since then a remarkable improvement seems to have taken place in the financial affairs of Jim Bakker, 47, and his singing wife Tammy Faye, 45, former cohosts of The Jim and Tammy Show, an inspirational daily cable hour. The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer reported last week that the couple received nearly $1.6 million in pay last year from their PTL (for Praise the Lord or People That Love) television ministry. In the first three months of this year, the paper added, the Pentecostal preacher and his wife received $640,000. In all, the Bakkers...
Insecurity plagues my daily activities and plunges me into involuntary reflection...if God made humans in His own image, why does Tammy Bakker look like multi-colored tupperware was abstractly melted all over her face? I am forced to question His good looks, and even the brand of cologne He chooses to wear, if in fact He can be said to wear any cologne at all in the Biblical sense...
...USED to think that nothing would surprise me. When Sasquatch's '68 presidential bid was supressed by the CIA/Better Homes and Gardens axis, I had seen it coming. When Jimmy "The Butcher" Baker quit pro wrestling and changed his last name to Bakker, I had a gut feeling he'd make it big on Sunday TV. When the "Facts of Life" was renewed after its first season, I was surprised just a little bit, at most...