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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...went to Madison Square Garden to see Tyler Perry's new musical, Madea's Big Happy Family, a day after I sat through a Broadway revival of Noel Coward's 1939 play Present Laughter. I noticed a few differences. In Coward's play, the main character, a famous stage actor, spends most of the evening in a dressing gown delivering bons mots to an entourage of fellow theater people. In Perry's show, a sharp-tongued grandmother delivers sassy put-downs and motivational lectures to a brood of squabbling family members. Coward's plot reaches a climax as the actor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tyler Perry's Big Happy Family | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

...imagine, most of Perry's fans can't relate much to the glib, angst-ridden, upper-middle-class white professionals who populate so many of the plays that New York critics write encomiums to. But the crowd leaves Perry's show on a communal high. All Noel Coward gave me was a Champagne hangover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tyler Perry's Big Happy Family | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

...civilization and Eastern barbarism. "This is almost like a race war, like a cultural war," he said about 9/11, the March 2004 Spanish subway bombings and the now lengthening conflict in Iraq. "And anyone who is my age who is not going to go fight in it is a coward. They can say it's about this or that, but it's really about religion. It's about not even which culture is going to rule the Middle East, but which culture is going to rule the West. I felt like Islam is, was, and always will be like fascism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Downward Spiral of Private Steven Green | 2/8/2010 | See Source »

Yulia Tymoshenko Profile: Entered politics after making a fortune in the gas industry, serving first as Deputy Prime Minister and then twice as Prime Minister Quote: "I do not want a common coward to become the next leader of our nation" - Tymoshenko after Yanukovych failed to appear for their TV debate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Ukraine, the Death of the Orange Revolution | 2/3/2010 | See Source »

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