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She Nose: Tammy Faye Bakker is back...

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Compiled by YEMI TOURE

She Nose: Tammy Faye Bakker is back in the pulpit at her New Covenant Church in Orlando, Fla. Her husband, former television evangelist Jim Bakker, is serving a prison sentence for fraud. Reporters were not welcomed at Sunday’s service, but Bakker told them part of her sermon concerned the poor. “Love has no nose,” she said, because poor people “sometimes don’t smell too good, so love can have no nose.”

Crown Askew: Christy Fichtner-Alhadef, Miss USA 1986, says she was exploited during her reign, making her the second former beauty queen to criticize pageant organizers. Miss USA 1989, Gretchen Polhemus, earlier complained about working long hours and getting few days off. “You get trained and conditioned to say the right thing. I don’t care any more,” Fichtner-Alhadef, 27, said in a recent interview from her Dallas home. Pageant officials said they inform contestants they face long, hectic hours.

Drink Up: Jerry Rubin, the ‘60s radical-turned-entrepreneur, is now an independent marketer for Omni IV, a nutritional drink that contains kelp, ginseng and bee pollen. “This is the best business opportunity for the average American,” said Rubin in Wallingford, Conn. The former Yippie was among a group of radicals charged with disrupting the 1968 Democratic National Convention. He was acquitted of conspiracy to incite violence.

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Chicken Soup: The late Andy Warhol wasn’t the only artist in the family. Paul Warhola, 67, a retired scrap-metal salesman, opened an exhibit Friday in Pittsburgh that includes paintings of Heinz ketchup bottles and pieces created by dipping a chicken in paint and walking it on canvas. Proceeds will benefit a local soup kitchen and mission. “I’m so happy that I can do something for them,” said Warhola (Andy dropped the final a in the family name). “After you get up in age, what do you need with money? Money is only for poor people and young people.”

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