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If all space invaders looked like this, we'd be in trouble.
Model and Dancing with the Stars contestant Joanna Krupa
Team Edward or Team Jacob?
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AKA: Emmitt Perry, Jr
Birthdate: 09/13/1969
Birthplace: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
During the first decade of the 21st century, Tyler Perry emerged as not only a screenwriter, producer, director, and film star, but as a media brand. With his endless supply of family-based morality tales espousing positive messages of faith and personal perseverance, Perry struck a chord with legions of middle-and upper-class African-American audiences alienated by hip-hop culture and lowbrow urban comedies. The “church basement play” quality of his offerings actually came straight from the Southern church circuit, where Perry began his career touring with self-penned comedies of fractured 
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Wrote a series of letters to himself about his childhood pain, which he later turned into the play, "I Know I've Been Changed"; the initial production financed and directed by Tyler was a flop
1998
Re-released the production of "I Know I've Been Changed," at the House of Blues and later at the Fox Theater; the show was a hit and sold out all shows
1999
Released his second play, a staging of Bishop T.D. Jakes book "Woman Thou Art Loosed"
2000
Followed with the play "I Can Do Bad All By Myself," which marked his first appearance as the Madea persona with Perry dressed in drag
2000
Staged another Jakes adaptation, a Broadway Gospel show called "Behind Closed Doors"; nominated for four NAACP Theatre Awards
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