THE REAL STORY OF TAMMY FAYE
After jurors found her husband guilty of fraud, Tammy Faye Bakker stood on the courthouse steps and sang, “On Christ the solid rock I stand. All other ground is sinking sand.” The hymn, as news cameras rolled outside the North Carolina court on that October day in 1989, perfectly summed up Tammy Faye and her husband Jim’s turbulent life: filled with faith, but soiled by scandal, drugs and infidelity.
The rise and fall of the famed televangelist couple gets a fresh look in the biopic , which stars Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield. Along with the heavy mascara and
