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William Eugene "Gene" Scott (August 14, 1929 – February 21, 2005) was a U.S. pastor and teacher who served for almost fifty years as an ordained minister and religious broadcaster in Los Angeles, California.
Gene Scott was born in Buhl, Idaho. He earned his Ph.D. in Philosophies of Education at Stanford University in 1957 and subsequently served as an ordained minister for almost fifty years. During his career, Scott served as a traveling teacher for the Pentecostal Assemblies of God, the president of the Full Gospel Fellowship of Churches and Ministers International for nine years and, for a combined total of thirty-five years, as the pastor for the Protestant Wescott Christian Center and Faith Center. For the last fifteen years of his ministry, Scott held weekly Sunday Bible teaching services at the Los Angeles University Cathedral in Los Angeles, California.
In 1975, Scott was elected pastor of Faith Center, a forty-five-year-old church of congregational polity in Glendale, California. Faith Broadcasting Network was the first Christian television station and the first to provide twenty-four-hour Christian programming. Scott added a nightly live television broadcast to the network, the Festival of Faith.
Actors: Vanessa Redgrave (actress), Brad Fiedel (composer), Vanessa Redgrave (actress), Santos Morales (actor), Michael Cavanaugh (actor), Alice Krige (actress), Louise Fletcher (actress), William Russ (actor), Martin Balsam (actor), Jeff Corey (actor), Whit Hertford (actor), Whit Hertford (actor), Richard Venture (actor), Bob Corff (miscellaneous crew), Ed Call (actor),
Plot: Fact-based story about tennis pro Renee Richards, whose player status was challenged in 1976 when it was revealed that she was a transsexual. Flashback to 1964 and meet Richard Radley, a successful New York doctor with a great lifestyle, a flashy girl friend, and a secret life. Seems like the good doctor likes to dress up in women's clothes and visit Manhattan. His psychiatrist mother refuses to deal with him and sends him to a colleague who diagnoses with a psychotic gender confusion, which he says can be unlearned. After a failed marriage and fatherhood, he gives in to the transsexual operation and becomes Renee for good with a new life in California.
Keywords: based-on-book, based-on-novel, sex-change, tennis, transsexual