WOW Report Entries
Recently DeadJoyce "Dottie" Rambo, gospel singer and songwriter (over 2,500 spritual tunes!), died early yesterday when her tour bus hurtled off Interstate 44 near Springfield, Missouri, and struck an embankment. She was 74. Seven other people on the bus taking...
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Is Tammy Faye the Earthquake Phantom?
After an earthquake struck Illinois on April 18, appearances of a mysterious lady making pronouncements have been reported, the phantom said to resemble Tammy Faye Bakker, who died almost a year ago. The mysterious lady, whoever she is, has...
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Remembering Tammy Faye
World of Wonder producer/director Jeremy Simmons attended Tammy Faye Messner's memorial service in Decatur, Georgia, on Saturday: I love tammy faye. And I love her family. And I was so happy to be a part of Tammy's memorial celebration...
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Remembering Tammy Faye
On Saturday night, close to 300 family, friends, and admiring strangers assembled at the Cathedral at Chapel Hill in Decatur, Georgia, for a memorial service for Tammy Faye Messner, who died July 20 from colon cancer. We wish we'd...
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More Blink Than Bling
Stephanie Simek's Tammy Faye necklace in sterling silver and real human hair is described at Cool Hunting as "an unusual and delicate piece of jewelry that, alternatively, has the calm look of sleep," and the addition of pearl tears...
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Synopsis
Tammy Faye's Battle With Cancer and Road to Recovery
Few Americans have had lives as intense and publicized, or been as adored and sometimes reviled, as Tammy Faye Messner.
Four years after the award-winning documentary THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE, we catch up with Tammy Faye as she fights the biggest battle of her tumultuous life -- against inoperable stage IV colon cancer.
For more than six months, we follow Tammy Faye, the pop culture icon and charismatic former wife of disgraced televangelist Jim Bakker, as she undergoes a difficult regimen of chemotherapy, loses her trademark eyelashes, and tries to heal herself using equal doses of alternative therapy and prayer.
Though her type of cancer only has a 5-percent survival rate in the first five years, Tammy's health slowly improves. We watch as she shares her journey with AIDS patients at a hospice near her home and then as she learns to sing again, months after cancer ravaged her vocal chords. Finally, with the cancer nearing remission, Tammy Faye begins preaching again, with a whole new perspective on life and death.
Her story is inspirational and heart-warming, as she never loses her characteristic positive and fearless attitude. A woman of intense contradictions, unique style, mesmerizing personality, a singer of great joy and one of the most public weepers in America, will again show the world how she deals with adversity.
