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In new essay, Tyler Perry says he’s ‘exhausted’ by all the hate, division
Tyler Perry wrote “we must never give up” in a heartfelt first-person essay in People magazine detailing his thoughts on racial injustice and police brutality against unarmed black people in America.
Perry said he almost passed on publishing his essay in the upcoming issue, which will be released Friday, but the filmmaker felt compelled to follow through because he’s “exhausted” from what he’s recently seen across the country.
“I’m exhausted from all the hate and the division, the vitriol that I see online from one to another,” the actor-writer-director writes. “I’m exhausted from seeing these kinds of senseless murders play out over and over again with nothing changing in our society.”
Perry wrote on various topics including how he felt after watching the death of George Floyd. He also touched on separate moments of being stopped and frisked in New Orleans and Atlanta.
“The level of racism and brutality that George Floyd faced is something that we as black people know all too well,” he wrote. “When I saw that video, I had so many raw, guttural emotions. I felt for him and his family. I felt for all of us as black people. I felt for my 5-year-old son.”
‘30 Rock’ cast to tout new NBC, cable schedules: Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Tracy Morgan and other “30 Rock” stars are reuniting for a corporate cause: to promote the shows and stars that will be part of the new season for NBC and its NBCUniversal cable siblings.
Described as a “onetime, commercial-free event” — other than the extended ad it represents for NBCUniversal — the reunion will air July 16 on
NBC and be shown on cable channels including USA Network, Bravo and Oxygen.
It’s a special born of the coronavirus pandemic, which kept NBCUniversal and other media companies from the mid-May tradition of presenting their 2020-21 schedules to crowds of ad buyers in
New York City.
The cast of the Emmywinning, 2006-13 sitcom will be in character, including Jack McBrayer’s enthusiastic network page, the company said Tuesday.
The special will feature new and returning shows from NBCUniversal’s platforms and include guests from entertainment, sports and news, the company said, with further details to be announced.
CBS drama among first to resume shooting:
“The Bold and the Beautiful” was set to resume production Wednesday, becoming the first network scripted show to start shooting again after the long layoff brought on by the coronavirus.
The popular CBS daytime drama was expected to begin production again at CBS Television City in Los Angeles with strict COVID-19 protocols in place as mandated by the state and county, the show’s publicist Eva Basler said Tuesday.
The show has not yet announced when the first new episode will air.
June 18 birthdays: Musician Paul McCartney is 78. Actress Constance McCashin is 73. Actress Carol Kane is 68. Actress Andrea Evans is 63. Keyboardist Dizzy Reed is 57. Singer Nathan Morris is 49. Actress Alana de la Garza is 44. Singer Blake Shelton is 44. Drummer Josh Dun is 32. Actor Jacob Anderson is 30.