Tammy Faye Passes Away
Most us remember her as Tammy Faye Bakker. Or just plain Tammy Faye.
The televangelist once married to the crooked pervert and financial cheat, Jim Bakker, who was involved in a sex scandal with the very memorable Jessica Hahn. Jessica Hahn, the first woman who ever used her breast implants as flotation device.
It was announced by her family today that Tammy Faye unfortunately lost her battle to Cancer. Tammy Faye. The woman who was so easily identified by her mascara covered eyes. The woman who will be forever immortalized on SNL by the very funny Jan Hooks.
When I think of Tammy Faye Bakker, I think of the time that I played a hooker on the Christian Broadcasting Network. It was in the eighties, the same exact time Tammy was a super celebrity. That's right. I played a hooker turned undercover cop. It was for a television show whose name I cannot recall and we shot on the streets of the "old Times Square"before it became Disneyfied. I was in my early twenties and I thought I hit celebrity status when the camera was rolling on eighth Avenue with 80 or so people watching us film. Boy, was I wrong. I was hookered-up in white leather, fishnets and heels. I had to "come on" and then hand cuff a good Nigerian Christian and then haul him off in a police car.
A month later I was flown to Virgina Beach to loop some sound for the show where I almost pledged into becoming a born again. That's a whole other blog entry!
If I could dig up the video of me as the do-gooder-hooker at my parent's house, I swear I will post it. In the meantime, here's Jan Hooks in an SNL sketch. I had no luck finding her playing the Tammy Faye character but this is just as memorable.
Wow. I didn't know she died. I should watch TV more often. I grew up in the south and had friends that visited the PTL theme park the Bakker's used to run. What a strange counter-culture that was. Thanks for posting this.
Posted by: lisa mcglaun | July 23, 2007 at 05:26 PM
I was never a Tammy Faye fan. But I think that televangelists shouldn't be millionaires either or how ever much money they made.
Posted by: I Eat Snowman Poop | July 23, 2007 at 09:30 PM