The Eyes of Tammy Faye, May 12, 2000 | 16th Annual Boston Gay & Lesbian Film/Video Festival

16th Annual Boston Gay & Lesbian Film/Video Festival

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Director

Fenton Bailey; Randy Barbato

Year

2000

Run Time

78

min

Country

USA

Language

English

PROGRAM Time

108

minutes

CONTENT WARNING:

A documentary look, mostly through the eyes of Tammy Faye Bakker Messner, at her rise and fall as a popular televangelist with husband Jim Bakker.

This film is presented in English with English subtitles.

Truth really is stranger than fiction, as this documentary from the filmmakers of last year's popular The Real Ellen Story asserts. Investigating the legend beneath the mascara, narrator RuPaul Charles guides us through Tammy Faye Bakker-Messner's "reunion" with old friend Pat Boone, a visit to Heritage Park, and interviews with her children and incarcerated Roe Messner, Jim Bakker's ex-best friend and Tammy's current husband. This absorbing and often poignant film, "a crowd-pleasing combination of campy sensibility and serious reporting, shows the former Tammy Faye Bakker to be a more intriguing individual than might be suspected" (Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times).

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The Trey Billings Show

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David Briggs

30 min

English

USA

The Trey Billings Show by David Briggs (1999, 30 min., video), in which David Drake, known for his play The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me, stars as both the starstruck host of a cable access talk show and the show's greatest guest ever, washed-up TV comedienne Dodie Day.

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