No balance. No BET news, Teen summit, no music videos, no BET UNCUT.
So you mean to tell me BET is missing out on BET Uncut, no music videos, a 30 minute news segment and a 40 minute show dedicated to teens? I mean damn I see what you're saying but is this what stopped BET from "destroying" our lives? This 2 hours of programming?
ATLANTA — Tyler Perry is standing in the middle of what was once a life on the brink.
It's a postage stamp of a room. A 200-square-foot studio apartment that's more heap than home: a broken television set; a stained mattress piled with broken end tables and torn couch cushions; an overflowing toilet caked with waste.
Others stayed here after Perry moved out years ago. "But this is pretty much how I was living," the director says, stepping over newspapers and a roach trap. "This was my place, and I was glad to have it."
The apartment building, which sits near downtown Atlanta off historic Peachtree Street, is to be torn down this month. But Perry, 38, wants a final look at the place he called home before he became the most influential black filmmaker in the business today.
Letting go, Perry is the first to concede, is not his strong suit.
"I never want to forget how close I came to losing everything," he says. "My bed was there. My stove was there — mainly Ramen noodles. That little corner there, that's where my computer sat. That's where I ran from my fears."
Those fears materialized in the form of journals and short plays, which Perry, on the advice of an episode of Oprah Winfrey, wrote to come to terms with a childhood of abuse and poverty in New Orleans.
Perry is still running, still remembering, still tapping out dread on a computer screen.
Now, though, he makes millions doing it. Even among Hollywood's elite, Perry has a track record worth envying. He has had four No. 1 films. He has sold more than 11 million DVDs of his films and videotaped stage plays.
TBS airs his half-hour show House of Payne and has ordered up a new one, Meet the Browns, based on his film characters. His movies cost about $10 million; they take in, on average, $47 million.
While I haven't watched any of his tv shows, I can't hate the man because he keeps people working. Between these three shows, that has to be about, what, 40 actors getting a steady check? Plus, the majority of his studios crew is black so that's probably another couple hundred people able to feed themselves and their families. He also makes sure that he goes back and grabs former black stars that Hollywood forgot about and gives them starring roles in his films. I can't be mad at that. I'm about to end my Tyler hate campaign.
I actually like "House of Payne" and "Meet the Browns". Dude here from "House of PAyne" is the modern day Fred Sanford
Leroy S. Brown is funny too
but i really watch for
And? This hasn't disputed anything I said in my earlier posts. I'm not 'hating' as you would so like to believe. I guarantee anyone with an ounce of talent could make it as big if not bigger if they were willing to coon. Then the promotion would explode. I chose not to go down that route because unlike Tyler, I have something called integrity.
That's the point. They are trying to get back to what they were in the 80's.
Maybe people dont like that these dudes are too happy and jolly. They stupid funny which reminds me of the shows they use to have back in the early 90s.I actually like "House of Payne" and "Meet the Browns". Dude here from "House of PAyne" is the modern day Fred Sanford
Leroy S. Brown is funny too
but i really watch for
While I haven't watched any of his tv shows, I can't hate the man because he keeps people working. Between these three shows, that has to be about, what, 40 actors getting a steady check? Plus, the majority of his studios crew is black so that's probably another couple hundred people able to feed themselves and their families. He also makes sure that he goes back and grabs former black stars that Hollywood forgot about and gives them starring roles in his films. I can't be mad at that. I'm about to end my Tyler hate campaign.
Doesn't just have to be a 'white audience'. That's why you see other races/ethnicites mocking black people of the stereotypical thug/gangster image that's perpetuated worldwide. In Tyler's case, there are so many. From the lonely hard done by independent strong black woman, to the good, pristine honest light bright individuals.
Stereotypes are stereotypes. While I agree his main audience are the ones you described, to think for one moment he doesn't have a large following outside of those parameters are naive. If Tyler Perry didn't have the coonery he displays, and had the depth of Spike Lee, do you honestly think he would get to platforms such as Oprah as often as he does? [/quote]
I agree on this point.
I agree. He knows his limitations and he sticks to it. My main point is how he seems to get more exposure when it comes to the media.
A lot of people have... and I for one did, but the nature of this industry very very rarely allows individuals who make films/sitcoms of substance to reach the same heights Tyler has.
This I agree on. And they are no different from TP in my opinion.
That was exactly my point if you look at my first post in here. And I never blamed TP, I'm simply acknowledging it's coonin. The executives at the major corporations will happily promote and support his kind of nonsense. There isn't enough black influence in Hollywood and I have seen it first hand.
LOL keep telling yourself that. Holier-than-thou cyberintegrity and four quarters can buy you something from the Dollar Menu. The point was that Tyler Perry didn't start off with 30 million and white Hollywood approval. But you already knew that. Maybe spend less time worrying about how easily TP sleeps and worry more about your own grind...
...or lack thereof
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