Word: evangelistic
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...century. Surely, however, the legend could not have been as turgid or as invincibly dull as the film that has been fashioned from it. The film makers, making a wild scramble for contemporary relevance, have chosen to frame the story with a singularly absurd yarn about a schizoid evangelist (also portrayed by Miss Ullmann) who believes she is Pope Joan. "Classic case of withdrawal," mutters Psychiatrist Keir Dullea, peering at her through huge spectacles...
...stitch together glorious empires. Ling could do all that and make it sound different and better. When making presentations to potential merger partners, he would take a piece of chalk or a felt pen and sketch marvelous projections of future earnings. He sounded like a cross between an evangelist and Univac. Not even the financial experts fully grasped how Ling intended to meet his predictions, but they were eager to advance him money. They wanted to believe...
...thought it was a miracle of God that I preached," says the voice-over in a new documentary film called Marjoe. "I just knew I could do it well." More's the pity. The narrator, Marjoe Gortner, has been a foot-hopping, finger-jabbing, Jesus-peddling evangelist for more than half of his 28 years, starting at the tough age of 3½. At four, the curly-coiffed, dandied-up moppet stirred up headlines and a legal ruckus by marrying a young sailor and his girl in a California wedding.* Now he is a sensation in a devastating...
From the beginning, as the film tells it, Marjoe was a child of corruption, born in a collection basket. When he was four, his evangelist parents took him to a Los Angeles rescue mission and had him ordained as a minister of the Old Time Faith Church. Then the family hit the hallelujah trail around the independent Pentecostal churches of the South and the Midwest. When Marjoe preached, according to the film, his parents cued him with prayerful exclamations ("Praise God!" meant the audience was ready for a collection); at home he was taught his routines under duress. To make...
...slick cover shows a pastel Jesus in red-polka-dot robes (a poster version is available for another $1.50). But who is the author, Levi Alphaeus? The introduction says he was a Galilean tax collector who "later adopted the name Matthew." He is better known as St. Matthew the Evangelist. A California entrepreneur named Joseph Rank simply took Matthew's Gospel (from the New American Standard Bible, Rank admits), tricked it up in poetic format, big type and plenty of white space, rewrote some passages, and dropped most Old Testament references. The reputable firm of Pocket Books...