Dr. Gene Scott (1929-2005)
Eccentrics continue to die this week with the passing of California televangelist Dr. Gene Scott on Monday afternoon. Subject of Werner Herzog's documentary God's Angry Man, you might have caught Dr. Gene in the wee hours of the morning...

Severe close-ups of his screaming bearded face (he often wore reading glasses on top of sunglasses); forty-five-minute-long video segments of his Arabian horses played as "punishment" to his viewers for not calling in enough donations; hour-long lectures on stamp collecting; preaching in his cathedral at a wipe-away board completely covered with layers of impossible diagrams while impossibly tan porn stars in the front row hang on every word; all this punctuated with the occasional Bobby Beausoleil-style jam by the in-house band...

"We're gonna have a stare down."
- Dr. Gene Scott

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Written by Coach.

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