“Actor Efrem Zimbalist Jr. testified Monday [in Charlotte] that the PTL board of directors, on which he once served, was little more than a rubber stamp for television evangelist Jim Bakker. ” ‘It was called a board of directors, but at no time did it operate like one,’ said Zimbalist, star of ‘The FBI’ television […]
Posts Tagged ‘jim bakker’
Zimbalist: PTL directors didn’t do much directing
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged efrem zimbalist jr, jim bakker, ptl on May 3, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
When Mickey Rooney backed beleaguered Bakkers
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged ava gardner, jim bakker, mickey rooney, ptl club on April 7, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
“Mickey Rooney has made a TV spot urging support of the Bakkers, the former PTL evangelists and proprietors of the collapsing Heritage USA…. ” ‘Won’t you call Jim and Tammy now?’ Rooney says. ‘They need your friendship’…. “What you get for the price of your long-distance call is a two-minute recorded message from the Bakkers […]
The rise and long, hard fall of muscadine wine
Posted in Tar Heelia, tagged billy graham, chapel hill nc, durham nc, jim bakker, muscadine wine, nc tourism, ptl, raleigh nc, variety vacationland on December 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
More phrase-frequency charts from Google Books Ngram Reader: — Chapel Hill vs. Raleigh and Durham — Variety Vacationland. Tourism promotion not a priority during World War II? — Billy Graham vs. Jim Bakker. No contest, even during the glory run of PTL. — North Carolina vs. South Carolina. South Carolina’s spike in the early 1700s […]
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