NAMES IN THE NEWS : ‘Fall From Grace’ Filming Begins

The cameras are rolling on actor Kevin Spacey as fallen PTL evangelist Jim Bakker and Bernadette Peters as his wife, Tammy Faye.

“Fall From Grace,” which ends with the couple’s ouster from the television ministry in 1987, is in its first full week of production in Los Angeles. The NBC movie, suggested by the Bakkers, should be broadcast sometime in May. NBC bought rights from the couple, but won’t say how much was paid.

NBC publicist Catherine Boxberger would say only that the agreement stipulated that the couple would not have script approval.

Actress Annie Rubanoff will play former church secretary Jessica Hahn, whose revelations of a sexual encounter with Bakker started an investigation into his ministry.