Eyes of Tammy Faye, The

Aroview: The heavily-mascaraed eyes of Tammy Faye Bakker shed a lot of tears as she recounts her experiences before and since the scandals that collapsed her marriage to televangelist king, Jim Bakker, and their religious broadcasting empire, PTL (Praise The Lord).

Tends to gloss over facts that sometimes demand more rigorous analysis, but the film-maker’s objectives aren’t investigative, but rather to give voice to the real person behind the perhaps misunderstood public figure, as honest-to-goodness wife, mother, entertainer, and even gay icon (RuPaul Charles is narrator!).

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