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Don't Rejoice Over Tyler Perry's Flop Movie

Tyler Perry Presents Peeples hasn't been bringing in the peeples to buy tickets, but let's not celebrate about that. The fact is, it's actually a challenging work that breaks new ground for Perry in that it doesn't pander to conservative church values. Writes Stephen Schaefer in the Boston Herald: ... More >>

Kim Kardashian Not Bad In Tyler Perry Film

Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor--based on one of Tyler Perry's old plays--snuck into theaters without press screenings, as per usual with his flicks. The one review that I saw condemned the casting of Kim Kardashian as a shallow worker at a dating agency. But a source who's seen th ... More >>

Tyler Perry is Back With Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor

SNL Sound-Off: Alabama Shakes

After watching Alabama Shakes' Brittany Howard belt her way through "Hold On" and "Always Alright" on Saturday Night Live, I did what I always do--peruse Twitter to see what people have to say about SNL's musical guest--and CHRIST that was an infuriating exercise. In a perfect world, Howard's glorio ... More >>

Twilight Film Gets The Most Nominations!

Relax! I'm talking about the Razzie awards, for worst of the year. The latest vamp epic scored 11 nominations, making it the Lincoln of the Razzies (or maybe the Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter).

Tyler Perry Gets The Worst Reviews of His Career

Even worse than for Madea's Witness Protection. He's gotten some scathing notices for Alex Cross, the thriller in which he's the homicide detective/psychologist once played by Oscar winner Morgan Freeman. But if there's any killing to investigate, it could be to Perry's career after this turkey lu ... More >>

Alex Cross: The Dumbest Movie of the Year?

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The Skinny With Patrik-Ian Polk, the Gay Filmmaking Love Child of Spike Lee and Tyler Perry

Before meeting the director of The Skinny for lunch recently, I had seen Patrik-Ian Polk refer to himself on his Twitter profile as "The gay Tyler Perry. Shut up." But I'd also heard of him referred to as the gay Spike Lee. So which is it, I inquired when we met, especially since many people consi ... More >>

Baby Jane Remake In The Works: Let The Casting Begin

The 1962 Granny Guignol classic Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? is being remade by Walter Hill, and it's time to line up two stars who are over the hill to play the parts. You know the drill. Jane is a nutjob who's stuck in her cutesy-pie kiddie routine and is so adorable except that she viciously ... More >>

The Sound of Music Is Coming To TV: I Know Who Should Star

The Sound of Music is a perfect movie, no matter what Christopher Plummer has been muttering for decades. It happens to be sweeping, enchanting, funny, adorable, and scary--the perfect mix of puppets, moppets, and Nazis. And now that it's been announced to come to TV in a whole new version, I want ... More >>

The Mainstreaming of Madea

Tyler Perry's mammy gets less melodramatic but not less grotesque

Madea's Witness Protection

The Tony Awards Are Over! My Roundup

Here are the highlights from my very vivid three-hour viewing experience. Hold your applause till the end: Interviewed on the red carpet, Tyne Daly dismissively said the Tonys are a race meant for everyone else, "not for us." She wasn't nominated. How bad were the musicals this year? So bad that ... More >>

Life, Love, Soul

Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day

Tyler Perry Was Spotted Out Of A Dress!

In his new movie, Tyler Perry's Good Deeds! And it looks as shocking as Pee-wee Herman in a tuxedo! From the trailer, this one looks pretty serious and at times dour, with none of the wigs, frocks, overheated hijinks, and fun of a Medea flick. (There are no screenings, so I have to rely on guessw ... More >>

So Much "God" Talk At Whitney's Memorial!

"Nothing separated her from God!" said an impassioned speaker. "She loved the Lord!"

Whitney Houston's Funeral: Make Sure To Watch

This is the biggest must-see tragic viewing since Michael Jackson's memorial (though her family wants quite a different feeling -- something smallish and intimate). It will be poignant, tearful, and filled with people who loved and felt for Whitney, as well as some who probably asked too much of he ... More >>

Ralph Richard Banks Asks if Marriage is For White People Only

​Ralph Richard Banks is the author of the new book Is Marriage for White People? While Banks, a Stanford Law professor, was in town for an event at Cardozo Law School, we met him for lunch in the West Village to talk about why black folks marry so much less often than whites, why black women a ... More >>

Who's The Best Male Movie Star In Drag?

Whether they were playing drag queens or women, a lot of name actors have been willing to step into the heels and do it up. Who's your favorite? Liev Schreiber in 'Taking Woodstock'​

As Tears Go By: The Soap Opera as Inspiration in Drama Queens

Tyler Perry Movie Asks "Are You Straight?"

​A journalist friend of mine just saw Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family--he paid, seeing as there were no press sreenings for some reason--and told me the fascinating way the movie starts: A pot-smoking aunt comes right out and asks a doctor in a hospital, "Are you straight?" ("Can you ... More >>

Tyler Perry Makes Mystery Woman Pregnant! Almost!

​I swear I didn't hallucinate this. I was flipping through a copy of Jet magazine in a drugstore and checking out the cover story about drag enterpreneur Tyler Perry. And Perry said in the interview that his lady love had thought she was pregnant recently, but it turned out not to be the cas ... More >>

Madea's Big Happy Family: Tyler Perry Gives Up On Coherency Altogether

Black Swan, Cyndi Lauper, South Beach, and Cockpit Jokes!

​CLICK HERE for my yuletide potpourri of a column which goes from movie premieres to Florida sun frolicking to free buffets to casino culture and back to the free buffets!

The Rainbow Disconnection: Tyler Perry Mangles For Colored Girls

This Week in the Voice: Let's Play "Who's My Landlord?"

​Home is, as they say, where the heart is. So who's the guy selling you your Lipitor and what the hell are all these rats doing everywhere? In this week's Village Voice cover story, join staff writer Elizabeth Dwoskin for a rousing, fun, morbid round of the game New Yorkers everywhere can rela ... More >>

Tyler Perry Is Against Down-Low Gays!

​I haven't been invited to see Tyler Perry's new film, For Colored Girls, a melodramatic adaptation of a Pulitzer winning stage work from the '70s about various victimized African American women. But--SPOILER ALERT--some people have been allowed in, and they tell me that one of the plot lines ... More >>

Tyler Perry Mocked in Gay-Spoofing Cartoon

​ I hope Tyler Perry wasn't watching Adult Swim a few nights ago. The latest episode of The Boondocks had a character named Winston Jerome, whom the L.A. Times describes as "a cross-dressing cult leader whose love of the Christian faith is a mask for his true sexuality."

"Is Tyler Perry Gay?" Piece in The Enquirer Quotes Me

​It's in the infamous "Who's Gay & Who's Not" issue, which you can read on the checkout line at D'Agostino. It reads: "Is Tyler Perry gay?

Tyler Perry's Worst Film: Why Did I Get Married Too?

2007’s Why Did I Get Married? was his best. The sequel is not.

The Decade in Film: A Timeline

A lot can happen in 10 years. Here, the highlights.

Video: New Orleans Mayoral Candidate's "Are You Shitting Me?" Ad

Who knows if James Perry has any chance to be elected Mayor of New Orleans? But we like his style. The executive director of the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center sued Ray Nagin for hiring expensive lawyers. And he has this ad going around which is like Millie Jackson meets Tyler Perr ... More >>

A Fetishist's Devotion Marks Black Dynamite

Tyler Perry Assembles The World's Greatest Blactresses

​So Tyler Perry--you know, the Madea guy--is writing and directing a film called For Colored Girls, based on the brilliant series of monologues called For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf. (The play surfaced in '75, when you had to have long, interesting title ... More >>

The Title Pretty Much Says It: I Can Do Bad All by Myself

Paraíso Travel Is Paraíso Lost

This Week in the Voice

Rob Harvilla on The Roots, hip-hop's favorite live backup and Jimmy Fallon's house band. Tim Elfrink and Jesse Hyde on how Guantanamo's custodians are coping with their mission and prisoners in the infamous prison's last days. Scott Foundas calls the new Harrison Ford vehicle, Wayne Kramer's Cro ... More >>

Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail

Oscar Micheaux and Black Pre-War Cinema at Walter Reade Theater

This Week's Voice: Playing Metallica's New Death Magnetic on Guitar Hero, Chuck Eddy on Folk Singers in Denial, Ne-Yo, Phillip Roth's Newest, and More

Why Tyler Perry Isn't Doing a Woman, Plus Harry Potter Horses Around

And Mamet books Broadway revivals, and several people reveal altered states.

Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns

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Why Would Musicians Use Steroids?

This Christmas

'Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls'

'Madea's Family Reunion'

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