Well, I guess I won't get to have Tammy Faye as a buddy after all. :(

[gloriajn]

Tammy Faye Bakker, the diminutive and elaborately coiffed gospel singer who, with her first husband, Jim Bakker, built a commercial empire around television evangelism only to see it collapse in sex and money scandals, died Friday at her home near Kansas City, MO. She was 65.