Entertainment & Arts
Television evangelists Jim and Tammy Bakker sold their rights to NBC for the upcoming movie “Fall From Grace,” but NBC insists that it didn’t sell out to the Bakkers.
April 5, 1990
Books
“Jim and Tammy Bakker present Move That Mountain.” “Jim and Tammy Bakker Say You Can Make It.”
March 27, 1987
World & Nation
Tammy Bakker was having dinner with friends at a local restaurant a few days ago when she overheard a particularly disturbing conversation in the next booth.
May 1, 1987
Books: Jim Bakker’s ex-wife says Jerry Falwell deceived the couple during 1980s scandal, and she paints a blistering portrait of other evangelists.
Oct. 12, 1996
PTL founder Jim Bakker on Saturday denied allegations by a rival television evangelist that he frequented prostitutes and engaged in homosexual acts.
April 26, 1987
If Judge Robert “Maximum Bob” Potter, who recently presided over the trial of Jim Bakker, passes sentence on the basis of this book, Bakker will be confined to prison until the Lord returns.
Oct. 15, 1989
Obituaries
Tammy Faye Messner, the mascara-laden former wife of televangelist Jim Bakker, the charismatic TV preacher with the choir-boy face with whom she appeared on their popular Christian talk-variety show until his downfall amid scandal in the late 1980s, has died.
July 22, 2007
Movies
Sunday--the first blockbuster night of the May ratings sweeps--brings the good, the bad and the box office.
April 28, 1990
California
Pulling out of the driveway of their sprawling hacienda here in a white Cadillac convertible, followed by a yellow moving van, fallen televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker left California Tuesday for their new home in Tennessee.
July 29, 1987
Controversial television minister Jim Bakker said Friday that he and his wife are emotionally exhausted, financially drained and do not plan a return to the PTL television ministry and theme park that they founded.
May 2, 1987