Word: evangelist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first period in the gym shower (as a high school senior, no less) in the opening scene. She cannot find relief from the mockery of her more sophisticated peers at home; a healthy dose of Scripture and a spell of confinement in a cell-like closet is the evangelist-mother's prescription...
...great contempt of the one among them who is politically committed. A few incidents occur to liven things up as the cars roll through the soap and spray: a hooker stiffs a cab driver for his fare and hides out in the ladies' room; a black evangelist (Richard Pryor) and his entourage splashily tool up to get a bird dropping removed from his customized limo; one of the polishers wins a prize on a radio contest and gets a date with a waitress he has been lusting over; the radical attempts to liberate the contents of the cash register...
...been devoted to the numinous imagery of Mark Rothko's paintings, with their feathery bars and rectangles of hovering light. The vital text, however, was unwittingly furnished by a popular American preacher in the 1920s, when asked to describe his vision of God. "I see him," said the evangelist, "as a sort of oblong blur...
...world turns on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman this season, the eight-year-old Rev. Jimmy Joe Jeeter, boy evangelist, comes to a sorry end when a television set rigged up over his bathtub falls in and electrocutes him. "He died for the 6:30 news, Lord. For the sins of the 6:30 news," wails Mary's friend Loretta Haggers, who happened to be out of the room at the crucial moment, hunting for the reverend's rubber duck. Meanwhile, Loretta's oversexed husband Charlie-shot in the groin in a tussle with Jimmy...
...kind of alike, and I think something is really there between us," purred Faye Dunaway, 35, considering her newest costar. Teamed with Hollywood Veteran Bette Davis, 68, Faye plays the title role in Sister Aimee, a Hallmark Hall of Fame production based on the life of California Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson. Davis, who unsuccessfully sought a Sister Aimee movie role some three decades ago, belatedly settled for the part of McPherson's domineering mother on the mid-November TV show. No hard feelings, though. "Good God, Bette's been a star since...