“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 […]