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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though he has not said publicly what sins he committed, sordid details will be forthcoming just a few weeks after he goes back on the air. Penthouse magazine has solicited, for an undisclosed sum, Prostitute Debra Murphree to give her account of the pornographic acts Swaggart paid her to perform for him over a year's time. The preacher's ministry is already losing $1.8 million a month and could be hurt further by those revelations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Worshipers on A Holy Roll | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

After Swaggart's sermonic confession, a prostitute named Debra Murphree turned up in West Palm Beach, Fla., and claimed to be the woman in the photos. Interviewed by WVUE-TV of New Orleans, she said she had had a yearlong series of motel meetings with Swaggart, during which no intercourse had occurred. She added that she customarily posed naked for him, and on one occasion, he asked her to wear a dress but no underwear and drive around with him. The world- renowned man of God was "kind of perverted to talk about the kinds of things they talked about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Now It's Jimmy's Turn | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...Jane is the Lois Lane of the '80s, a newswoman whose affections are torn between a Clark Kent reporter (Albert Brooks) and a flawed Superman-anchorman (William Hurt). The male leads had long been cast, but until just before rehearsals, Jim Brooks was still looking for his "little steamroller." Debra Winger, who had shone in his Terms of Endearment, was pregnant and unavailable. Sigourney Weaver, Mary Beth Hurt, Christine Lahti, Judy Davis -- all were fine, but nobody was right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Holly Hunter Takes Hollywood | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

...fondly. The accomplished performers who wrote the show and some of the musical selections -- Mark Hardwick and Debra Monk (who collaborated previously on the 1981 off-Broadway hit Pump Boys and Dinettes), Mary Murfitt and Mike Craver -- are all Middle Americans by upbringing, not New York City wise guys. They've been there. When Debbie sings an ode to shopping malls and interstates called Ohio Afternoon ("Ohio fun . . . diesels dragging out on Highway 1"), she gets all misty. When Mark and Mike have at a couple of Zez Confrey ivory ticklers like Dizzy Fingers and Coaxing the Piano, their doofus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: In The Sweet, Funny By and By OIL CITY SYMPHONY | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

First Period-- 1 H Julia Trotman (Johanna Neilson, Brita Lind) [ppg] 1:58; 2 H Karen Carney (Jane Kalinski) 2:30; 3 H Julie Sasner (Char Joslin, Trotman) [shg] 8:30; 4 H Sasner (Millet) 11:25; 5 H Joslin (Sasner) 17:55. Penalties--C Debra MacWalter, (checking) 1:17; H Kalinski, (interference) 4:45; H Kalinski, (tripping...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women's Hockey | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

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