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PHOTOS: Mother Perry service: 'We have lost an important person, but not her spirit'
Photos of Mother Perry throughout the last few years. NAPLES - The Naples community - black and white, young and old - came together to celebrate and remember the extraordinary life of the town's Mother Perry.
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Katy Perry attempts to draw our attention to Katy Perry
There's nothing to say that god-fearing, right-living evangelicals Mary Hudson and Keith Hudson didn't lead an exciting life before meeting up with Jesus, but Katy Perry's claims for her parents seem a little ...
Gospel Music: Carolina Gospel Association announces new season of music
The Carolina Gospel Association will start its thirteenth year this coming Thursday.
Open Letter: Hollywood Heavy Hitters Send Direct Message To Tyler Perry
While film and TV mogul Tyler Perry partied with a who's who of Black star power at the opening of his Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta this weekend, the Writers Guild Association sent an open letter to the ...
By: Lauren Moraski Katy Perry is a bride-gone-wild -- in the new music video for her current single, "Hot & Cold." In a behind-the-scenes MySpace video, Perry explains: "This music video is a big production.
Tyler Perry musical needs acting counselor
The new musical "The Marriage Counselor" is about twice as long as a Sunday church service and filled with many of the same messages.
After a strong $6.5M Friday, the star teaming of George Clooney , Brad Pitt , Frances McDormand , Tilda Swinton , John Malkovich spy comedy received a 24 percent bump to $8M Saturday, and Focus expects the ...
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Hollywood's Wedding Radar is On: Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson Lindsay Lohan has sparked further speculation that she and rumored girlfriend Samantha Ronson will wed after she was photographed wearing a ...
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Leftover Night With Tyler Perry's 'Family'
All you really need to know about 'Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys,' which opened yesterday, are the first two words: Tyler Perry. Maybe two more: Alfre Woodard, but we'll get to that.
"Preys," is, yep, another produced-directed-written-by-and-starring vehicle for the workaholic actor and writer, and it delivers exactly the two-dimensional middle-class black family soap opera that you know is coming. You'll figure out what's going to happen to each character in the first 15 minutes.
But it's almost comforting, this sort of predictability, in which you pay to be nurtured, mildly entertained and not at all surprised. In the world of Perry ("Why Did I Get Married?" "Diary of a Mad Black Woman," television's "House of Payne"), good people are rewarded, bad people are punished, family actually matters and tragedy is tempered by faith and a gospel power ballad.
To state that The Family That Preys is Tyler Perry's most accomplished screen effort to date doesn't change the fact that it's still exactly the kind of preachy, pandering, tone-shifting, gospel-laced soap ...
B.O. Update: 'Burn After Reading' May Upset Perry's 'Preys' to Win
And the winner appears to be The Coen Brothers and Burn After Reading , although it is very close, and I cannot rule out a win for Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys .
Rose Dennen reviews Katy Perry at the Water Rats, London WC1 The daughter of two Californian pastors, Katy Perry released her first album aged 16 under her real name Katy Hudson.
Whether wrapped inside a chocolate bar, used in cooking oil, roasted, boiled or mashed into peanut butter, the peanut is one of America's snack food staples.
Ryan Shaw has a vintage soul sound, even though he was only 26 when this episode was taped.
Katy Perry Battles Tabloids and Critics
Homophobe. Sinner. And now, shameful and disgusting. These are just some of the names Perry has been called.
Los Osos couple headed to Democratic National Convention in Denver
Theresa Perry's son, a convention staffer, scored her tickets to the Democratic Party's big event.
Rihanna Gives Katy Perry the Kiss-Off
This week Rihanna 's a bad girl gone good. Her new single "Disturbia" just gave the singer a third No.
Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl" continues its reign as the Number One song in the country for the sixth consecutive week.
3 accused of child abuse make court appearance
Three family members facing charges of child abuse involving torture and child rape appeared in court Friday.
Judge bans brain-damaged boy from suing over bouncy castle accident
A couple ordered to pay 1 million damages after a boy was left brain damaged on their bouncy castle have won their appeal.