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Jessica Chastain is not resting on her laurels after taking home Best Actress at this year's Academy Awards ceremony for her role in the Eyes Of Tammy Faye.The actress, 45, bundled up in an Army green jacket over a blue turtleneck as she shot a scene for a new untitled movie in New York City on Monday.The 355 star added gray pants with a greenish tinge to her look and tall black combat boots. Back at it:Jessica Chastain isn't resting on her laurels after taking home Best Actress at this year's Academy Awards ceremonyHer red hair whipped wildly around her face, and she seemed to bring her hands up to her face to brush it away.

Tammy Faye, the Olivier-nominated Elton John–Jake Shears–James Graham musical about ’80s-era televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker, will premiere on Broadway during the 2024-25 Season.

The Rev. Steven Pieters, a long-time HIV survivor and activist who became famous when interviewed by televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker in 1985, died Saturday of complications from gastrointestinal cancer. He was 70. 

Alan Dershowitz is off the hook, legally speaking.

Elton John and the Scissor Sisters’ Jake Shears have come together to collaborate on the creation of a brand new musical based on the life of the legendary televangelist and LGBTQI icon, Tammy Faye Messner. The new musical, entitled Tammy Faye is slated to begin its run at the Almeida Theatre in London’s West End in October 2022.The cast of Tammy Faye, which includes Beautiful’s Katie Brayben, The Book of Mormon’s Andrew Rannells, and Zubin Varla, began rehearsals for the show this week. Tammy Faye will feature music by Elton John, with lyrics by Jake Shears. John has also famously written music for The Lion King and Billy Elliott. Elton John was nominated for a Tony Award in 1998 for Best Original Score for his work collaborating on the score for The Lion King and was nominated again in 2009 for Best Original Score for his work on Billy Elliott.The musical is based on the life of the iconic Tammy Faye Messner, who along with her former husband Jim Bakker fronted the PTL Club television ministry during the 1970s and 1980s.

She delighted her fans by dressing up as Lady Gaga and Jessica Chastain ahead of the Academy Awards.But Kelly Ripa took a break from the Hollywood glamour on Friday, when she and her husband Mark Consuelos were spotted on a walk in New York City.The 51-year-old Live! With Kelly And Ryan star looked relaxed in a vibrant tie-dye shirt as the couple strolled past the Greenwich Hotel in Manhattan. On the town: Kelly Ripa, 51, paired a casual tie-dye shirt with a sleek blazer and dark jeans as she took a walk near Manhattan's Greenwich hotel with husband Mark Consuelos, 51Kelly paired her green, blue and red shirt with a classy black blazer, and stuck to dark colors with her slim jeans.The talk show host and occasional actress rounded out her outfit with weathered white sneakers.

The 94th Academy Awards have blessed Jessica Chastain with her first career Oscar. The actress accepted the best lead actress prize for her work in The Eyes of Tammy Faye on Sunday. During her acceptance speech, Chastain touched on current social issues of discrimination, violence, bigotry and division.

won the Oscar for Best Actress, awarded by presenter Anthony Hopkins.In her speech, broadcast live from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, Chastain drew large applause and thanked her “brilliant” co-star Andrew Garfield.“So many people out there feel hopelessness and alone and suicide is a leading cause of death in the United States,” she noted.“It’s touched many families. It’s touched mine and especially members of the LGBTQ community…we’re faced with discriminatory and bigoted legislation that is sweeping our country with the only goal of further dividing us.

Kelly Ripa is taking her award season preparations very seriously, and now some fans think she might have taken things too far.MORE: Kelly Ripa shares new details from family vacation following returnLive with Kelly and Ryan released an exciting teaser promoting their After Oscar show out the Monday following the Academy Awards, to discuss all things winners, red carpet looks, and surprises of the night.The teaser however revealed a shocking transformation Kelly underwent in honor of the awards, and fans were completely taken aback by it.WATCH: Kelly's son Joaquin showcased his impressive dance moves in a new video MORE: Kelly Ripa's family celebrate news related to son Joaquin's time at college"This is who I really am," the television host said in the video, recreating an iconic scene from Jessica Chastain's Oscar nominated film, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, which tells the story of infamous televangelists Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye Bakker.Tammy was known for her extreme make-up looks, most notably for her eye make-up, which featured layers upon layers of heavy black mascara.

Kelly Ripa transformed into Tammy Faye Bakker in a new clip for her upcoming post-Oscars broadcast with Ryan Seacrest.She was spoofing Jessica Chastain's Oscar-nominated performance as the late televangelist in the biopic The Eyes Of Tammy Faye.In the new clip Kelly, 51, is unrecognizable as Tammy Faye, lampooning Jessica's big scene where she declares that her exaggerated stage look is 'who I am.' Goofing about:Kelly Ripa, 51, transformed into Tammy Faye Bakker in a new clip for her and Ryan Seacrest's upcoming post-Oscars broadcastKelly can also be seen singing onstage as Tammy Faye, who used to perform songs as part of her ministry while her husband Jim Bakker did the preaching.For her TV parody, Kelly was singing one of Tammy Faye's actual stage numbers, Jesus Keeps Takin' Me Higher And Higher. When a makeup lady asks if she wants 'a little remover' for her eyelashes, Kelly as Tammy Faye replies: 'Oh, no, that's it.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorEver since Searchlight Pictures released stills of Jessica Chastain in “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” audiences were captivated by her transformation, and now, the hair and makeup team, along with Chastain, are all in the running for Oscar. The goal of makeup department head Linda Dowds, hair department head Stephanie Ingram and special makeup effects artist Justin Raleigh was not to make a caricature of the famous televangelist but create a real person.Raleigh’s process began with 2D conceptual designs combining the real Tammy Faye Bakker with Chastain to figure out the elements that had to be altered with prosthetics.

The Eyes of Tammy Faye star Jessica Chastain joined makeup department head Linda Dowds and prosthetics designer Justin Raleigh for a virtual panel at Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees event.

Jessica Chastain has built a résumé of portraying strong-willed women, but playing Tammy Faye Bakker was the first time she felt “exposed.” Believe it or not, she’s been working on bringing The Eyes of Tammy Faye to life since her most recent Best Actress nomination in 2012’s Zero Dark Thirty.

The last time Andrew Garfield was shortlisted for Leading Man was in 2016 for his role as true-life pacifist hero Desmond Doss in Mel Gibson’s war drama Hacksaw Ridge. His performance in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s tick, tick… BOOM! could not be more different. In this stylized, unconventional biopic, he stars as Jonathan Larson, a playwright working in musical theater who died in January 1996 on the morning of the biggest day of his life—the first preview of his Broadway hit Rent. Many expected tick, tick… BOOM! to tell the story of that artistic and commercial triumph, but no—it tells instead of the myriad failures that Larson experienced, with dogged determination, in the run-up.

theme park - it’s not what you might expect of a pair of Christian preachers.But Jim and Tammy Bakker were no normal God-fearing couple. They were the biggest televangelists of 1980s America, who were brought down by a sex, drugs and fraud scandal.It saw Jim outed for paying off a woman who accused him of rape and then jailed for fraud.

In a short period since blasting out of a cannon on the big screen in Terence Malick’s Oscar nominated and Palme d’Or-winning The Tree of Life in 2011, Jessica Chastain has quickly built a resume of playing strong willed women. Alas, some are Greek tragic heroes, who reach for the stars, only to fall short; Tammy Faye Bakker being one of them.

The Eyes of Tammy Faye, one of the many new movies in theaters now.I took a look at theaters near me to compare movie showtimes and settled on going to the 6 pm Thursday evening showing at the AMC theater near me. Luckily, the theater was almost empty so it felt pretty safe.

Jessica Chastain is on a publicity tour for her new project The Eyes Of Tammy Faye.And the actress was in cheerful spirits as she wrapped up an appearance on LIVE with Live! Kelly And Ryan on Thursday morning where she explained why she wanted to play Tammy Faye while adding that she met the star's kids.The redhead siren was seen in a sleeveless canary yellow midi dress with a turtleneck bodice. Working: Jessica Chastain is on a publicity tour for her new project The Eyes of Tammy Faye The big film: She stars as Tammy with Andrew Garfield as Jim Bakker, right, in The Eyes Of Tammy Faye'I realized because you have false memories of people, I remember the Church Lady from SNL..

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorHow do you make a movie about colorful televangelist and gay icon Tammy Faye Bakker without veering into caricature? That was the challenge for “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” costume designer Mitchell Travers and star and producer Jessica Chastain, who were united in their vision for the look of the film. “We never wanted it to become a parody.

Michael Appler In 1985, after thousands of gay men had died of AIDS in the U.S., Tammy Faye Bakker interviewed an openly gay pastor with HIV/AIDS named Steve Pieters on a national Christian television program.“How sad that we as Christians, who are supposed to love everyone, are so afraid of an AIDS patient that we will not put our arm around them and tell them that we care,” Tammy, through teary eyes and smudged makeup, said then on The PTL Club, the televangelist network she founded with husband Jim Bakker and which spectacularly collapsed after he was convicted of mass fraud and conspiracy.In “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” a new biographical film starring Jessica Chastain as Tammy and Andrew Garfield as Jim Bakker that interview with Pieters

Hot off of the TIFF premiere of their new biopic “The Eyes Of Tammy Faye”, stars Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield dished about their physical transformations for their roles as former televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker.