Word: televangelistic
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...received a $1 million advance from Simon & Schuster for his autobiography; the first draft was completed in June. The preacher and his wife Macel are making payments with interest to the ministry on an 1834 dairy farmhouse, purchased in 1980 for $160,000 and given to his church. The televangelist's Thomas Road Baptist Church pays the household utilities, as well as health and life insurance. Falwell drives around Lynchburg in a four-wheel-drive GMC truck and boards a small jet for out-of-town trips...
People still bring suits, though; prominent among them are cases involving public figures who should know exactly how arduous a battle they face. Televangelist Pat Robertson is in the early stages of a case brought against Representative Andrew Jacobs Jr. and former Representative Paul McCloskey Jr., who accused Robertson of evading combat during the Korean War by using the influence of his father, the late U.S. Senator A. Willis Robertson. The Milwaukee Journal is being sued by a former Democratic state representative, the Chicago Sun-Times by a former president of the city council, and WCCO-TV, the Minneapolis affiliate...
...doctors, dentists, shrinks, anthropologists, poets (Allen Ginsberg), novelists (William Burroughs) and composers (John Cage) dog-eared his card in their Rolodexes. Even the selection of Boulder as a center was a commercial brainstorm; it is a mecca for vagabond children with trust funds. He lived as ostentatiously as a televangelist -- though not as tastelessly...
...response, Falwell scoffed, "To say that Jerry Falwell stole PTL is like accusing someone of stealing the Titanic just after it hit the iceberg." As Falwell told it, Bakker "misled me and lied to me in the meeting in Palm Springs." The Lynchburg televangelist insisted that he did not threaten Bakker with the Swaggart takeover rumor. Rather, Bakker asked him to take over PTL, saying, "You're the only preacher I trust right...
...scandal seems to have had a fallout effect on some other televangelists. Falwell admits that proceeds at various enterprises in Lynchburg were down $2 million in April; Jimmy Swaggart reports a $1.5 million decline for that month. The Rev. Robert Schuller of Garden Grove, Calif., whose popular Hour of Power is carried by 172 TV stations, shows a 3% dip in donations so far in 1987, but he does not consider that necessarily a result of the PTL scandal. The televangelist with the most to lose is the one with the biggest video operation, Republican Presidential Candidate Pat Robertson...