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Hold onto your wig: Madea appears to be coming to Hartford. Tyler Perry will play his comic drag persona Madea in his latest stage work, "Madea's Big Happy Family," when the national tour, which begins Jan.

Having just experienced the Atlanta Mayoral runoff election which was decided by less than 800 votes in a race in which the race issue was looming in the background, I wondered whether the Hollywood awards season would also be marked by the race race.

Tyler Perry will take his beloved matriarch character on the road this winter with the live stage show, Madea's Big Happy Family, the actor-director-producer announced Dec.

U.S. film director Tyler Perry said he will donate $1 million to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Tyler Perry used too much of the goodness of Jesus in his movie, " Madea Goes to Jail ," at least according to a new federal lawsuit obtained by TMZ .

Director and comic actor Tyler Perry, whose films include the recent "I Can Do Bad All By Myself," has given $1 million to the NAACP in the largest gift ever by a single person to that civil rights group.

Tamela Mann: 'The Master Plan' Nyah Nile The versatile Tamela Mann, aka Cora on TBS's "Meet The Browns," and a co-star in Tyler Perry's "Madea Goes to Jail," lit up the Best Buy on Winchester Road during a CD signing of her highly anticipated, faith-based sophomore project - "The Master Plan" - last Friday.

Many people watched Tyler Perry plays and then went on to watch his movies. My understanding from friends who have seen some of his plays is that quite a bit of buffoonery went on in the plays.

Caption: Spike Lee and Tonya Lews Lee 6th annual Keep a Child Alive New York City, USA .... Outspoken moviemaker SPIKE LEE has picked a new film fight with actor/director TYLER PERRY after suggesting the MADEA GOES TO JAIL star's hit films are a step backwards for African-Americans. The Do The Right Thing director accuses Perry of "coonery and ...

Caption: Tyler Perry Celebrities kick off two major initiatives, Participate and Cities of Service, to encourage volunteerism - held in Times Square New York City, USA .... TYLER PERRY was inspired to open up about his horrific childhood - after watching OPRAH WINFREY reveal her own dealings with abusive relatives.

Producer Tyler Perry speaks onstage at the 'Precious: Based On The Novel 'Push' By Sapphire' press conference held at the Four Seasons Hotel on September 13, 2009 in Toronto, Canada.

Caption: Tyler Perry Celebrities kick off two major initiatives, Participate and Cities of Service, to encourage volunteerism - held in Times Square New York City, USA .... PERRY: 'I WAS BEATEN AND MOLESTED AS A CHILD' Actor/director TYLER PERRY has opened up about his horrific childhood - confessing he was beaten, abused and molested by some ...

In the beginning, when God created Hollywood, He commanded the movie studios to release their worst films during January and August of each year.

Lynn Crosbie Last updated on Tuesday, Sep. 22, 2009 11:01AM EDT H ave you ever woken from a television coma, sat upright and asked: What is going on? Maybe because that wired little shill, Vince, is smacking a Slap Chop and Graty around.

The forecast was bright at the box office for "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs," which earned $30.1 million to lead this weekend's films.

In the movie "I Can Do Bad All by Myself", a hard-living nightclub singer discovers the importance of family with the help of a handsome Mexican immigrant.

It was all sunshine and rainbows for Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs at the box office over the weekend.

Prolific filmmaker Tyler Perry scored his second No. 1 movie of the year at the North American box office on Sunday, leading a weak field of newcomers in what is traditionally one of the industry's slowest weekends.

Incandescent filmmaker Tyler Perry's latest family comedy "I Can Do Bad All By Myself" opened in the top place in North America's ticket booths this weekend, with an estimated 24 million dollars in ticket sales during three days beginning Friday, preliminary estimates provided by North American boxoffice authorities Sunday show.

Perry has rode the house-dress of his most popular character, Aunt Madea - a chain-smoking, gun-toting and cussing doppelganger of everybody's favorite auntie - to become a phenomenon.