joked “At least it’s a fruit pie,” and prayed to forgive Higgins “for his deviant lifestyle.” Anita Bryant, her face covered with banana cream pie, stares in disbelief during a news ...
Nearly half a century after Anita Bryant ... she had a pie thrown in her face on live television by gay rights activist Thom Higgins, joked “At least it’s a fruit pie,” and prayed to forgive ...
The way Anita Bryant told it, she didn’t have a choice ... “At least it’s a fruit pie”—a whole bunch of Americans reveled in her comeuppance. The New York Times stood up for Bryant ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Anita Bryant, a former Miss Oklahoma ... During an appearance in Iowa, an activist jammed a pie in her face. Her career in entertainment declined, her marriage to her first ...
Anita Bryant recently died ... I happened upon a photograph in the newspaper of Ms. Bryant getting a banana cream pie in the face, wielded by an angry demonstrator named Thom Al Higgins.
Anita Bryant, the singsongy beauty queen who spun her folksy Oklahoma charm into a career hawking orange juice and campaigning against gay rights, died last month at 84. When the news broke on ...