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Re: Marjoe Gortner: The Business of Evangelism
Hugh Marjoe Ross Gortner, generally known as Marjoe Gortner (born January 14, 1944 in Long Beach, California), is a former evangelical minister who first gained a certain fame in the late 1940s and early to mid 1950s when he became the youngest ordained preacher at the age of four, and then outright notoriety in the 1970s when he starred in an Oscar-winning, behind-the-scenes documentary about the lucrative business of Pentecostal preaching. The name "Marjoe" is a combination of the names "Mary" and "Joseph".

When Marjoe was three, his father, a second generation evangelical minister, noticed his son's talent for mimicry and overall fearlessness of strangers and public settings. His parents claimed Marjoe had received a vision from God during a bath and began training him to deliver sermons, complete with dramatic gestures and emphatic lunges. By the time Marjoe was four, his parents arranged for him to perform a marriage ceremony for a film crew from Paramount studios, referring to him as "the youngest ordained minister in history." Like much in Marjoe's early life it is hard to say for sure who exactly ordained him, if his father ordained him, or if he was even ordained at all.

Until the time he was a teenager, Marjoe and his parents traveled the rural United States, holding revival meetings. As well as teaching him scriptural passages, Marjoe's parents also taught him several money-making tactics, involving the sale of supposedly "holy" articles at revivals which promised to heal the sick and dying. By the time Marjoe was sixteen, he later estimated, his family had amassed maybe three million dollars; shortly after his sixteenth birthday, Marjoe's father absconded with the money, and a disillusioned Marjoe left his mother for San Francisco, where he was taken in by and became the lover of an older woman. Marjoe spent the remainder of his teenage years as an itinerant hippie until his early twenties, when, hard pressed for money, he decided to put his old skills to work and re-emerged on the evangelical circuit with a charismatic stage-show modeled after those of contemporary rockers, most notably Mick Jagger. Marjoe made enough to take six months off every year, during which he returned to California, surviving on the previous six months' earnings.

In the late 1960s, Marjoe suffered a crisis of conscience -- in particular about the threats of damnation he felt compelled to weave into his sermons -- and resolved to make one final tour, this time on film. Under the pretense of making a documentary on the evangelical and non-denominational faiths, Marjoe assembled a documentary film crew to follow him around the Southern United States during 1971; unbeknownst to everyone else involved -- including, at one point, his father -- Marjoe gave "backstage" interviews to the filmmakers in between sermons and revivals, explaining intimate details of how he and other ministers operated. After sermons, the filmmakers were invited back to Marjoe's hotel room to tape him counting the money he collected during the day. The resulting film, Marjoe, won the 1972 Academy Award for best documentary.
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Re: Don't Move
'Don’t Move' is the 8th slice in Bloody Cuts' anthology of short horror films, made by a young team of UK film-makers on low budgets.
Written by David Scullion it stars Rachel Bright and Jake Hendriks alongside
Kate Braithwaite, Beth Cooper, Ian Whyte, Calvin Dean and Martin Skipper.
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Re: Kids on Death Row- Yemen
The country is one of only four left on Earth that still allows capital punishment for minors.
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Re: Gorillage People
Y.M.C.A.
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Re: Jonathan Winters - RIP
RIP Papa Smurf.
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Re: Sleeping Cat and Crazy Pigeons
This is not a pigeon, it is a turtledove.
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Re: YouTube Best Video Award
By the way... April Fools! ;-)
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Re: Disney Star Wars
Cast:
Anthony Padilla as Han Solo/Fan #1
Ian Hecox as Himself as Luke Skywalker/Fan #2
Josephine Longo as Princess Leia Organa
Ethan Ireland as Darth Vader
Jawara Duncan as Chris Tucker as C-3PO
Patrick Egan as Jar Jar/Millennium Falcon/Jabba the Hutt
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Re: Foster The People - Houdini
Scored 1 Headline already: http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/301648/detail/
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Re: Culture Shock for Amazon
See also: http://vimeo.com/58150407
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Re: Crazy Announcer Calls Craziest End to Basketball Game
At the end "..tell me i'm not dreaming!" (4X)
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Re: Animirus: About Authority
A bee bite me, let it be.
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Re: Animirus: About Authority
While M&C is beeing deported, visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbZBb2HOEbs
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Re: Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
I advise you to hear the MManson version of it. ;)
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Re: I Didn't Know That - Concrete Tent
Related: http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/253085/detail/
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