("We're all just people, made out of the same old dirt," she chirped. Her inclusive personal theology, which would inspire her to reach out to the LGBT community, also made her an anomaly in the conservative Christian milieu. And yet, with her relentlessly bubbly nature, big hair and dramatic make-up, she hewed closer to Dolly Parton than the dowdy archetype of preacher's wife.
Tammy Faye Messner achieved fame as a pioneer of televangelism alongside then-husband Jim Bakker. In The Eyes of Tammy Faye (directed by The Big Sick's Michael Showalter), Jessica Chastain (Scenes From a Marriage Molly's Game) sets out to do just that for the pint-sized preacher of the title, duly plastered with prosthetics and hoping to maybe pick up an Oscar for her trouble.Īfter re-watching the original documentary, Chastain acquired the rights to the story of Tammy Faye for about $5,000 in 2012. Such works function as correctives to the misogynistic media narratives once attached to them. She's approached with empathy, sometimes even reverence, to the point of the term's eager reclamation by many of the TikTok generation.Īs the cries of "free Britney" have grown louder, little wonder we've seen a spate of revisionist histories about some of the most maligned women of the 80s and 90s - Tonya Harding, Monica Lewinsky, Princess Diana - crop up on our screens. Now, the bimbo is back - but this time, she's not being treated as a figure of fun, but rather appreciated for her hyper-feminine mystique.
It was a year in which vitriol and condescension were heaped freely upon the women slapped with the label - considered sexy but brainless and ethically challenged. The pair received toasts and telegrams, and heard speeches from their best men before tucking into a wedding cake topped with penguins.Ī larger reception with all staff at the research base will take place on May 8 when the ship returns to Rothera research station.Ī celebration for their family and friends in Spain, where Bourne lives, is planned for later this year.The Wall Street Journal declared 1987 "The Year of the Bimbo". “We’re both very proud to be the first same-sex marriage to happen in British Antarctic Territory,“ Bourne said. He said Antarctica, with a backdrop of icebergs and snow-covered mountains, was “the perfect place” to get married.īefore heading south, the couple had the coordinates of the location - 67 34' S 68 08' W - engraved into their wedding rings.
On Sunday, Carpenter braved the freezing temperatures in a kilt - and snow boots - while the ship's crew, in full uniform, officially welcomed the newlyweds, forming an archway by holding aloft ice axes. The first couple to get married in the territory were polar field guides Julie Baum and Tom Sylvester in July 2017.īaum made her own wedding dress using part of an old orange tent while Sylvester made the wedding rings at research station's metal workshop. The British Antarctic Territory Government, based in the foreign office in London, will register the union, which will be valid in the UK. The ceremony - the second marriage between BAS staff since a change in the law in 2016 allowing marriages to be arranged in the territory - was held by the ship's captain. LONDON: Two stewards on a polar research vessel have become the first same-sex couple to get married in the British Antarctic Territory, the British Antarctic Survey said on Monday.Įric Bourne and Stephen Carpenter got hitched on Sunday in bright sunshine on the helideck of the RSS Sir David Attenborough at the BAS's Rothera Research Station.