News about Tammy Faye Bakker

In a forthcoming documentary, Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye Messner's uncle will tell the truth of his family's colorful history. According to Jay Bakker, 48, the four-part series titled Better Angels: Tammy Faye will investigate his late mother's legacy in a way that the Oscar-winning Hollywood film starring Jessica Chastain could not. Jay says his parents' tale is 'far more complicated' than people realize and that the film will feature both 'friends and enemies' of the controversial Christian megastars.

It's difficult to believe now, but huge numbers of scheduled airflights were hijacked in the 1960s and 1970s, the majority of which were carried out by lone nutters armed to the teeth. It was, actually, a different age. Internal flights in the United States were incredibly cheap, and security was non-existent. You can't take a pair of nail scissors on an aeroplane anymore, and all security companies seem to have Semtex tubes. (Is there such a thing as minty Semtex?) Nonetheless, your average hijacker boarded with at least one heavy weapon, likely a grenade or two sticks of dynamite tied around his waist, and possibly a grenade or two. He wanted $500,000 and a parachute, and was about to jump out of the plane's aft entrance because people rushing out of the front door would be sucked into the jets and killed unpleasantly. (Ugh.)