Saturday, July 7, 2012
“Diana Ross refuses to work with ‘lowbrow’ Tyler Perry†links
Written by Kaiser
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I’m a, a diva, hey
I’m a, I’m a, a diva, hey
I’m a, I’m a, a diva, hey
I’m a, I’m a, a diva!
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Dang, she looks like Oprah in that first pic
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That is so true!!! I thought Oprah at first!
On another note, did anyone read what Co$ little cyber-techies do to censor comments on their church?
Here is what they are commanded to do:
On each comment if you place your mouse over it,it show up on the bottom right a tag that say ‘REPORT’.
2. Click the “Report†Tag and a small window show up. Click the tab “Send Note to Moderatorâ€
3. Once you do that a new window show up and you can send a text of 100 character. You can write something like ‘Violate Your Code of Conduct,’ defames or degrades a group for any reason including on the basis of religion.â€
4. Read the comment from people and pick the ones that fit the violation of the Code of Conduct.
5. Report the Violation!! That’s it!! You are done.
Once you got the hang of it it get pretty fast and in one hour you can report of lots of these nonsense comment!
If is only one person (me) reporting these issues, the Moderator at Microsoft will not take the comment off. if you start to have 10 or 20 people reporting it, they are going to take this down.
â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"-Those Little F-ckers. They will try to give any blogger a hard time wading through real and false reports of abuse!! H
Now, anyone with suggestions on how to counter-act those little xenutic terrorists?
EDIT: Xenutic, one who suffers from Xenu lunacy. Remind myself, submit this to Urban Dictionary. Will it be accepted?
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Maguita I read about Jackson Rathbone VI. I was curious about the numbers behind his name. Young Jackson is a descendant of General Stonewall Jackson and his great-granfather was chairman of Exxon Oil. Who knew.
I’m also completely disgusted by the Co$ PR machine.Report this comment as spam or abuse
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How many Muppets had to die to make that dress?
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+1
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LMAO!
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LOL! She’s a diva but that doesn’t make her wrong.
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+1
People are ‘allowed’ to say no.
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I clicked on that Kris Jenner link, I’m now going to pour bleach over my eyes
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Good for her! And I agree with her 100%!
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^ Diana Ross that is
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+1
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word.
love love love Miss Ross.
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Me too. Can’t stand Tyler Perry.
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prolly didn’t want to wear a fat suit and thick glasses..can’t blame her
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^ THIS. I don’t hear enough high profile people objecting to his becoming the voice of Black America and lowering the standards for entertainment. Good on her for not backing down on what seems to be a very unpopular opinion just because so many don’t agree!
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It’s a mixed bag.
On the one hand his movies are terrible.
On the other he’s the only film maker offering consistent roles to African Americans.
Seriously look at any of the films gushed about this year and point me to the one with a starring African American that’s not a Perry film.
Sucks.
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True.
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Couldn’t agree more, Riana, with everything you said. Also, there are often some good scenes, good dialog, or really incredible acting (he gets good people because jobs for Black actors, especially women, are so hard to find)in even the worst of his films, so that keeps me a consistent TP DVD renter. For example, Taraji killed her dramatic role, absolutely murdered it, in I Can Do Bad All By Myself, which was a pretty terrible movie otherwise.
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Think Like a Man- never saw it- was a huge hit and had nothing to do with Tyler Perry.
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True, but name another movie besides it and I’m not trying to be snotty when I say that.
Outside of movies that are primarily intended for black audiences there are no to few films with an ensemble cast that have black actresses or actors who are not big stars.
Sure Denzel or Halle will get a movie but outside of them how many black faces have you seen in the movies you’ve attended this year?
Diana has the option of not wanting to work with him because she’s already a star but if she was a struggling black actress a Perry film would be a relief.
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Takers was #1 in it’s opening weekend wasn’t it?
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@ Riana, totally agree!
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Safehouse with Denzel
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i loved safehouse, but denzel was the pretty much the only black actor in the film. it wasn’t an ensemble.
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Spike Lee mainly casts black people in his films. He has a film coming out soon Beasts of the Southern Wild has an all black cast. Yes, it is slim pickings but Tyler is not the only one working.
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It’s already out and getting excellent reviews.
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Read my mind. African American man who was once living in his car is now a multimillionaire writer, actor,and producer with his own movie studio..that is amazing
However, the movies and shows are a bit much, even tho i have laughed at occassional scenes lol
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Is it bad to say that seeing Blake Lively with cellulite makes me feel better about myself? lololololol
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Oooooh, but I find the Lively calculating!
Notice how old-fashioned and very-very much unlike any of Leo DiCapreo’s little-bikini wearing models she is???
I bow to the master. I bow to the master!
@originalKitten must see this as well!
Have a great w/e Mdawg, and who cares about cellulite, it’s everywhere when it isn’t photo-shopped.
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Good!
I get pegged a hater all the time for how I see Tyler’s work, but it is what it is. I give TP props for making a living and coming far in life.
However, I don’t like that his movies come off with this agenda against black women. Sure these are personas that people REALLY do carry, I won’t deny that at all, but the HEAVY FOCUS on it is VERY suspect to me. It’s almost as if black women are subliminally being pegged as one extrememe or the other if we are with a partner who does well in life and somehow said partner is all of a sudden shown to be an abuser or crook, and now the woman must be saved by the blue collar guy who is her only hope and was always her only hope, and she realizes it when it’s too late or in hindsight. Or the blue collar guy gets revenge by beating and smacking said woman around…the formula is so cookie cutter now and the fact that his built in fanbase eats it up, shows and proves that the majority of the black movie going audience doesn’t look for anything more than typical dumbed down material to entertain them.
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I saw one Tyler P. movie (drama) on DVD. His low opinion of women was so obvious and disgusting I didn’t make it half way thru the movie before I stopped it. I had no idea that I would be subjected to so much violence when I chose the DVD. I will never watch another movie of his, even a comedy. The man has serious issues about women and it’s disturbing that he makes money from it. I would think black men would be fed up with how they are portrayed as well. I’m glad Diana R. has taken a stand against him. She gets a cheer from me.
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Really? Then you don’t know much about his movies. Watch these and you may change your mind.
For Colored Girls
Good Deeds
Precious
The Family That Prays TogetherI think you have forgotten that he is also a producer.
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diana ross is a legend. she can refuse to work with anyone she pleases. 
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+1 Amen
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I like that Colin Farrell is a man who enjoys a good power walk. He is such a sweetie.
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Not that you need liking him more,
but he likes power walks, and enjoys marathon sex.
My kind of man.
Have a great w/e!
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Blake Lively looks pregnant
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I think she has been looking pregnant for a few weeks now. There were some photos them shopping at Whole Foods recently (or some such WASPy grocery store), and she looked pregnant. I thought she might be overindulging a bit in vanilla ice cream and martoonis, but maybe she is pregnant.
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Yeah she does. And there are several pics where blake or ryan is touching her belly, are they trying to sell a story? (I assume they arranged the pap-situation)
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Ehhh I read the Tommy Lee post and it made me kind of like him (not that I am a fan or anything). He has some really good points, and it doesn’t seem douchey or anything. I hate having my picture taken though so maybe I just empathize
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Well I am a fan â€" well I was a fan until I read this last week. He’s an asshole. I love Motley Crue they are my fave band and have been since I was 6 freakin’ years old! I went to a show a few years ago and waited and waited to have my photo taken with someone. Not because I’m owed it but because I frickin’ adore these guys! I never got the photo with Crue but did get one with DJ Ashba of Sixx AM and Guns n’ Roses fame.
God I was so pissed at Tommy Lee for writing this. I hate getting my photo taken too but if I was in the position that he is (a million adoring fans who buy the records, the concert tickets, the books, etc.) I would give them a photo because if it weren’t for those fans I would be nothing.
LOL, sorry. I ranted. Not at you but at him. I don’t think I’ll be buying anymore music or going to anymore Motley Crue concerts
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Kinda surprised .B/c , most people today (younger folks) know Tyler Perry and NOT Diana Ross. She should be grateful that he would want to do a project with her .She’s been barely relevant in the last 20 years .
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I doubt she cares wether young people know who she is or not, she is not catered to young people and if she were trying to get the younger demographic a Tyler perry movie wouldn’t be the way to go. I wouldnt be so sure that a lot of young people know who tyler perry is they may know his movies and who madea is, but they probably couldn’t name him if they saw a picture of him. Also even if she isn’t relevant with the younger crowd she is still relevant to music, she has an impact on the music industry. I don’t think there is anything wrong with her not want to do a Tyler perry movie, he constantly perpetuates stereotypes and only feeds the view the media and society has on black people.
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Excellent point. I mean, I’ve been a Diana Ross fan since I was a kid in the 70s, and she has no equal. She’s not wrong that his movies do tend to be on the lowbrow side, ….BUT â€" bottom line, ^^^Stacie^^^ is right. GF hasn’t had work in years, she should be grateful that such a successful director is interested in her, get off her high horse, grab her sense of humor, and go work with him. Why not? Maybe she could elevate the quality of his work, who knows?
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She should be more worried about that wig that’s about to pop off her head.
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Ah, the Kim Kartrashian School of Fame…it doesn’t matter what you do, as long as you’re known!
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What if she doesn’t want to be mainstream again she probably isn’t looking for validation in her career. It’s possible she only wants to do things she believes in or what she feels will benefit her.
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No younger people that I know go. To Tylers movies
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I admire Miss Ross immensely for her refusal in this regard. Some black folks are starved culturally for Art; sick of kitsch.Art gives that intangible which cannot be reduced to mere money. She gets that. Bless her.
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ITA with everything you said.
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Me too!
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“Katie Holmes has lost weightâ€
And quickly! I hope she does not let the stress of her public divorce get in the way of her health. She needs her strength for herself and her child.
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Geez, the woman got nominated for an Oscar for Best lead by an actress for one of the best iconic movie and one of my all time favourites :’Lady Sings The Blues’, portraying the legendary Billie Holliday with the iconic Billy Dee Williams.
She has nothing to do with Tyler Perry stupid movies.
I hope directors like Steve Mc Queen will keep on doing what he does and include more Africans or Afropeans or African Americans in his movies.
Especially for us Afropeans who don’t have many of our people in movies done by Europeans from african descents, movies with another athmosphere than what Perry does, also with more mixity representing more the european mixity trend these days.
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I hear ya. I’m a born and bred black Canadian who lived in one of the snow belts of the St. Lawrence Lowlands until moving to Toronto at the age of 23.
This is a huge novelty to many non-Canadians (‘Silly, there aren’t black people in Canada.’ You’d know champ). I get asked by a lot of (usually older, but not exclusively) well-meaning white people who wonder how I manage to bear the weather. I’m no snow bunny, because it’s not because I’m physiologically incapable of not turning into a Scott-sicle with every layer added. I can tell the difference between malice and naivete, so I don’t get bent about it.
Of course…
A few years ago I was travelling home for Christmas, and had that conversation with some gentleman who I’m pretty sure had a six degrees of David Lee Roth going. It was two days before Christmas, late night, I had packages and it was -30, windy, and a blizzard was starting up (I don’t understand fahrenheit beyond -40 and 212 degrees and to be frank, it seems like the lunacy of the skies when I encounter it).
Long story, short: He offered me the cab he had called before we met and I freaking took it. See, merry Christmases can happen if the meteorology is accomodating.
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Anyway, I don’t see myself in the cinema for myriad reasons, but sometimes it’s easier to pick the battlesâ€"it’s not I’m going to star in Hollywood: Part Movie.
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So what black artists have to just settle for ANYTHING simply because they’re black??
Like someone else said, Diana Ross is a legend…and a DIVA!! Her standards are her own and I applaud her.
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To be fair, the supreme slut is intimately acquainted with low brow. Was Mr. Perry knocking Ms. Ross’ door down with offers?
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Mmmm. Adrien Brody. I bet that nose is good for more than just smelling!
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Hehehehe
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When I glanced at the title I thought it said Katy Perry
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I have never been able to stand this woman since the Supremes first hit the airwaves in 1964. She’s a mediocre talent voice-wise, and she can’t act her way out of a paper bag.
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I know not a lot of you are interested, but Jackson Rathbone and his “burlesque†dancing girlfriend welcome a new baby… aka… Jackson accidentally knocked up a stripper. Kind of obvious= “burlesque†“monroe†but I also know his cousin.
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Diana (don’t look me in the eye) Ross should be the last person to be judgemental anything. Look how she got on top, by backstabbing(the other supremes), messing around with married men (Barry Gordy) and having a child with him and other stuff that I don’t have time to type so please!!
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I would NOT want to be sitting behind Ms. Ross at a Tyler Perry movie, or any movie. Imagine all the things you could hide in that hair..
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Yeah, it was Diane(a) who poured the booze down Flo’s neck and the coke up Mary’s nose that made her into the international star that she is today, 50 years on. How the heck can Miss Ross still get the headlines without any discernible talent is beyond me….
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How about when she grabbed Little Kim’s boob and shook it around on live tv? Real class act!
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Well, she’s right that Madea is low-brow. But really funny! In a rather scary sort of way. Madea steals every scene better than a kid or a dog, since it’s impossible to take your eyes and ears off her. Tyler Perry’s shows and movies tend to be spotty (some brilliant moments, some not so much), but his Madea creation always hits it right.
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Whatever. He’s one of the most successful indie filmmakers of all time who started out self funding his projects as opposed to sleeping his way to the top. For the most part, his films are pretty cheap and rake in a crazy amount of profits. Film is primarily a business, not an art form, and if his stuff isn’t to Ross’s taste she doesn’t have to be a bitch about it. I hate Adam Sandler movies but admire the guy’s business savvy.
Also, Perry’s crap is paving the way for more, potentially “high browâ€, film projects through him establishing a market for black centred movies.
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I’m sure she sees it for what it is: A degradation of black American culture.
And isn’t it interesting how it’s always these type of movies that get funded and green lighted?
Why is it always “pain porn†when it comes to African American films? I see various different takes on “Precious†constantly, same theme, different faces.African American culture is now defined by the lowest common denominator.
The African American underclass have now taken over and African American culture is now HipHop, gangbang,rap, thuglife,out of wedlock children,crime…etc. And you know it. Everyone knows it.And the only thing Tyler Perry movies are paving for is more Tyler Perry movies.
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