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Tyler Perry has for years operated in something of an alternate theater universe. Though best known for his hit movies (starting with Diary of a Mad Black Woman in 2005), top-rated TV series (TBS's House of Payne) and friendship with Oprah Winfrey (with whom he produced the Oscar-nominated film Precious), Perry, 40, may well be the most popular unsung playwright in America. Raised in a poor and abusive home in New Orleans, he staged his first musical play, I Know I've Been Changed, in a former Atlanta church in 1998. Two years later he introduced...
This impersonal introduction has several key advantages that must be explored. Having similar academic interests, living in the same dorm, or hailing from the same geographical region all provide the foundations for a budding friendship. Fledgling amity is almost always in desperate need of commonalities around which conversation can be sustained. A shared interest in “folk and myth” or “that new major…you know, the stem cell one” can lead to a prolonged discussion of class selection and Q ratings. Residence in the same dorm can spark listing...
Senior Advisor to the President Valerie B. Jarrett highlighted the role of personal relationships in the political sphere, speaking about her friendship with President Barack Obama to several hundred audience members at the Institute of Politics on Friday...
Gergen called Jarrett “the nation’s First Friend” and said he felt comfortable knowing that Jarrett’s friendship with Obama allowed her to be an honest advisor to the President...
Another pressure that is eliminated in retirement is the scant amount of time members of Congress now have to get to know one another in the rival party. "There appears to be kind of an ever growing diminishing of relationships across the aisle - of fellowship and friendship," explains Domenici. "As soon as the votes are over, people are gone. You can't find them...