Word: mads
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...Perry, 38, might just be winning the war. His first play to be turned into a movie, the 2005 Diary of a Mad Black Woman, was made for a paltry $5.5 million yet earned $22 million in its opening weekend on the way to a $50 million gross. A year later, Madea's Family Reunion--in which Perry reprises his signature drag character, Mabel (Madea) Simmons--took in $30 million in its first three days and eventually grossed $63 million. Last fall's Why Did I Get Married?, an ensemble drama about a couples' retreat, made $55 million. And next...
...first play, I Know I've Been Changed. He settled in Atlanta, which is still his base of operations. Soon he was a one-man off-Broadway, penning and often starring in nine original plays in nine years: I Can Do Bad All by Myself (2000), Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2001), Madea's Family Reunion (2002), Madea's Class Reunion (2003), Meet the Browns (2004), Why Did I Get Married? (2004), Madea Goes to Jail (2005), What's Done in the Dark (2006) and this year's The Marriage Counselor...
...you’ve ever told: I’ve just moved you to the top of my ‘to do’ list (come on, it’s Harvard) Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: “oh you mad cause I’m stylin’ on you” Favorite childhood activity: Training for the stuntin’ Olympics Sexiest physical trait: I’m told I have a great pair of….eyes Best part about Harvard: Bougie cocktail parties every weekend Worst part about...
...parents hand us a world driven mad by violence and fear. We inherit a legacy of consciously cultivated division and rage. We have been taught to fight each other, yet as youth, we have more cause than any group to be united. We share in the fact that as young people, we must inhabit this world the longest. As the most recent arrivals, we have the least stake in the old feuds and irrational strife of the past. Today—bound together by instantaneous global communication—we are conscious of this in a way no other generation...
...each resident.Instead, rising seniors will only be able to pick suites with a number of rooms that is equal to the number of residents lotterying as a group—the same set-up they had as juniors this year.“I’m really just mad about the fact that they are doing this right now,” said William C. Quinn ’10 of the announcement’s proximity to the lottery deadline in April. “It’s very unfair to [juniors].”Rooming arrangements...