TV evangelist

His characters range from real-life Ugandan leader Idi Amin to the fictional TV evangelist Rev. James L. White, upset at “not getting the white folks’ money.”

Chastain, who won an Oscar for her role as TV evangelist Tammy Faye Bakker, found strength in another Tammy’s story: a successful woman with powerful men all around her trying to take advantage of her talent.

TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart, Lewis’ cousin, told the more than 100 people inside Young’s Funeral Home in Ferriday, the town where Lewis was born, that when Lewis died he “lost the brother I never had.”

Like a TV evangelist charlatan, the Commanders and their new-age leader, team president Jason Wright, were exposed as a franchise buried so deep by their own sins that there is likely no salvation — save for, of course, excommunicating their owner, Dan Snyder.

Many experts say Jessica Chastain's portrayal of TV evangelist Tammy Faye Bakker will triumph, though some give the edge to former "Twilight" vampire Kristen Stewart for playing Princess Diana in "Spencer."