Posted in Just A Bite, tagged efrem zimbalist jr, jim bakker, ptl on May 3, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
