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Posted at 06/07/2010 by 1 Comment

Tyler Perry Upset Mariah Dropped Out Of Film, Names Her Replacement

According to EUR Web: Tyler Perry says he was on vacation and just days away from starting production on an adaptation of Ntozake Shange’s 1975 play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf when one of his leading ladies, Mariah Carey, called to tell him she was dropping out. “I said, ‘What? You’re kidding me?,’” Perry writes lightheartedly in his latest letter to ...

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Tyler Perry To Adapt Colored Girls

According to Reuters.com: Tyler Perry will adapt the 1975 play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf" as a feature film. The play, by Ntozake Shange, is structured as a series of poems spoken by female characters, addressing issues of love, abandonment, rape and abortion. It was adapted into a 1982 television movie. Perry aims to gather an all-star cast of female ...

Posted at September 04, 2009 by 1 Comment
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