Dear Tyler Perry, As you must know by now, your film For Colored Girls was officially shut out of the Oscar race. I wish I could say I’m surprised but the writing was pretty much on the wall, with the Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild also choosing to snub For Colored Girls as well. […]
Here is an interesting review of Tyler Perry’s adaptation of “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide..” by Courtland Milloy in The Washington Post: Can anyone name a movie that came out recently starring a black man who wasn’t a sociopath? Someone who had a terrific screen presence, like a young Paul Robeson? And he […]
Director Tyler Perry has thrown his hat in the Oscar ring with For Colored Girls. Based on Ntozake Shange’s groundbreaking 1974 choreopoem, the film boasts a dazzling, multigenerational cast of black actresses: Janet Jackson, Kimberly Elise, Loretta Devine, Thandie Newton, Phylicia Rashad, Tessa Thompson, Whoopi Goldberg, and Macy Gray.
Jawn Murray, a contributor to AOL Black voices and the Tom Joyner Morning show used his Twitter account to criticize people who were doubting Tyler Perry as a director for Ntozake Shange’s play, “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf” as a movie. All those militant-nappy headed #AngryBlackWoman who didn’t […]
The soundtrack to Tyler Perry’s ‘For Colored Girls’ will be released on November 2, but you can preview TODAY by streaming over at Atlantic Records.
Tyler Perry told Oprah about being abused as a child on a show that will air this Wednesday according to Contact Music.In the interview, he told her that the abuse led to suicide efforts. The mogul recalled being beaten and sexually abused by a male and a female relative – and how he once blacked […]
I wonder where his wife Bey will be in 2015. Will they be the first Hip Hop union worth over $2B???
Movieline has confirmed that Lionsgate shortened the title of Perry’s award season ensembler For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf to just For Colored Girls.
Celebrity blogger ATLien sat down with Tyler Perry at the Essence Music Festival this past weekend. And while she didn’t ask him any pressing questions (such as why he refuses to kick open that closet door), she did ask him about the controversial ‘Boondocks’ episode starring a hilarious gay caricature of him! “Just like the […]
The controversy surrounding the “Pause” episode of The Boondocks continues.
Word is that Tyler Perry is on FIRE about the latest Boondocks episode. The Boondocks created a parody, who was believed to be Tyler Perry about a was about a filmmaker who “Was sent on a mission from God to cast sexy men and cross dress”. It was also stated that the Madea creator is […]
Did last Sunday’s episode of “The Boondocks” hit too close to home for Tyler Perry?
