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Regis Philbin, a longtime television host, has died. He was 88. “We are deeply saddened to share that our beloved Regis Philbin passed away last night of natural causes, one month shy of his 89th birthday,” his family told People magazine on Saturday.

Mullahs, madmen and monotheists September 10, 2005 TORONTO -- Someday I would love to see a Werner Herzog documentary about blithering messianic monotheists -- those religious snake-oil salesmen (of Christianity or Islam or whatever) -- that would emphasize the circular absurdity of their world view, in the way that Herzog's "How Much Wood Would a Wood Chuck Chuck" flaunts (and even celebrates) the ludicrous but hypnotic speech patterns of Southern auctioneers. We get a sampling of the Islamic variety, without a lot of coherent context, in "The Smell of Paradise," a documentary about jihadists in Afghanistan, Chechnya, Qatar, Azerbaijan and...

Dr Gene Scott, 1929 - 2005Thought Provocative Evangelist Televangelist Gene Scott Dies at Age 75 LOS ANGELES (AP) - Gene Scott, the shaggy-haired, cigar-smoking televangelist whose eccentric religious broadcasts were beamed around the world, has died, a family spokesman said. He was 75. Scott died Monday after suffering a stroke, said the spokesman, Robert Emmers. The longtime pastor of Los Angeles University Cathedral began hosting a nightly television broadcast of Bible teaching in the mid-1970s. His University Network eventually aired a nightly talk show and Sunday morning church services on radio and television stations in about 180 countries. Scott's church,...

Televangelist Gene Scott Dies at Age 75 LOS ANGELES (AP) - Gene Scott, the shaggy-haired, cigar-smoking televangelist whose eccentric religious broadcasts were beamed around the world, has died, a family spokesman said. He was 75. Scott died Monday after suffering a stroke, said the spokesman, Robert Emmers. The longtime pastor of Los Angeles University Cathedral began hosting a nightly television broadcast of Bible teaching in the mid-1970s.

LOS ANGELES -- Gene Scott, the shaggy-haired, cigar-smoking televangelist whose eccentric religious broadcasts were beamed around the world, has died. He was 75. Scott died Monday after suffering a stroke, family spokesman Robert Emmers said. For three decades, Scott was pastor of Los Angeles University Cathedral, a Protestant congregation of more than 15,000 members housed in a landmark downtown building. In the mid-1970s, Scott began hosting a nightly live television broadcast of Bible teaching. His nightly talk show and Sunday morning church services were aired on radio and television stations to about 180 countries around the world by his University...