The Mail on Sunday

THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE

DISNEY+ FILM

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Drama about the rise and fall of Tammy Faye, wife of US TV evangelist Jim Bakker (Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield, right). Jim, like almost all televangel­ists, was a grifting fraud who ended up in prison. Tammy Faye became a gay icon after sympatheti­cally interviewi­ng a man with AIDS on her TV show in 1985 – unusual behaviour for someone on the ‘Christian’ right. From Wednesday

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