It seems like the stars have aligned for Alexandra Pelosi and her new film, Friends of God: A Road Trip with Alexandra Pelosi, a sort of primer to this massive phenomenon called the evangelical movement. In early November 2006, days after she finished shooting her documentary (premiering tonight at 9 pm/ET on HBO), Pastor Ted Haggard, the president of the National Association of Evangelicals and a main focus of the movie, made headlines when he confessed to having sex with male prostitutes and using crystal meth. A few days after that, the filmmaker's mother, Nancy Pelosi, was elected the first female Speaker of the House. And another week later, Alexandra gave birth to her fir
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