Country Music Royalty Abe Sylvia Sings With “George And Tammy”
Happy at home doesn’t make hits – George Jones This adage holds true, especially in the case of the tumultuous romance between famed country musicians Tammy Wynette (Jessica Chastain) and George Jones (Michael Shannon). It all began when writer/ director Abe Sylvia (Dead To Me, The Eyes Of Tammy Faye) received a phone call […]
“Humanizing Performative People With Outsized Lives” Abe Sylvia On Adapting ‘The Eyes Of Tammy Faye’
Tammy Faye LaValley-Bakker-Meisner who married the infamous televangelist Jim Bakker were behind the immensely lucrative PTL (Praise The Lord) Club television ministry and Heritage USA, a Christian theme park. Tammy Faye most notably rose to prominence by bucking the church orthodoxy and embracing the LGBT community at the height of the AIDS epidemic. Screenwriter Abe […]
