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    Tammy Faye Bakker

    1942-03-07 (82 years old) in International Falls, Minnesota, USA

    Tamara Faye "Tammy" Messner (née LaValley; March 7, 1942 – July 20, 2007), formerly Tammy Faye Bakker, was an American Christian singer, evangelist, entrepreneur, author, talk show host, and television personality. She initially gained notice for her work with The PTL Club, a televangelist program she co-founded with her husband Jim Bakker in 1974. Prior to founding The PTL Club, they had hosted their own puppet show series for local programming in Minnesota in the early 1970s, and Messner also had a career as a recording artist. In 1978, she and Bakker built Heritage USA, a Christian theme park. Messner would garner significant publicity when Jim Bakker was indicted, convicted, and imprisoned on numerous counts of fraud and conspiracy in 1989, resulting in the dissolution of The PTL Club. After divorcing Bakker in 1992, she remarried to Roe Messner. She was diagnosed with colon cancer in 1996, of which she suffered intermittently for over a decade before dying of the disease in 2007. Over the course of her career, Messner was noted for her eccentric and glamorous persona, as well as for her moral views that diverged from those of many mainstream Evangelists, particularly her acceptance of the LGBT community and reaching out to HIV/AIDS patients at the height of the AIDS epidemic. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Movies

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    The Front Runner
    58.86 %|Nov 6, 2018
    Drama, History
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    Vanilla Ice Archive
    0 %|Jul 16, 2012
    Documentary, Music
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    Tammy Faye Death Defying
    60 %|Jun 25, 2005
    Documentary
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    Windy City Heat
    71 %|Oct 12, 2003
    Comedy, Documentary, TV Movie
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    The Eyes of Tammy Faye
    62 %|Jan 25, 2000
    Documentary, Drama
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    Praise the Lord
    0 %|Jan 26, 1988
    Documentary
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    Thy Kingdom Come ... Thy Will Be Done
    0 %|Jan 1, 1988
    Documentary

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    The Surreal Life
    78 %|Jan 9, 2003
    Reality
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    Where Are They Now?
    75 %|Jun 7, 1999
    Documentary
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    E! True Hollywood Story
    81 %|Aug 21, 1996
    Documentary
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    The Drew Carey Show
    65 %|Sep 13, 1995
    Comedy
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    Intimate Portrait
    45 %|Nov 14, 1993
    Documentary
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    Roseanne
    68.27 %|Oct 18, 1988
    Comedy
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    The PTL Club
    10 %|Invalid Date
    Talk, Family