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Madea's Big Happy Family, like most of Perry's work, is an odd hybrid of populist comedy-drama, rock concert, revival meeting and motivational seminar. The broad comedy, stereotyped characters and simple set (a two-story family house, living room downstairs, bedroom upstairs) give the show a TV-sitcom feel - an impression reinforced by the video screens that project the action simultaneously, even edited with two-shots and closeups...
...school and find my mom [novelist Tabitha King] in her office clattering away at the keyboard, and my dad would be in his office sitting in front of his word processor," he says. "By the time I was 11 or 12, it seemed perfectly natural to go to your room and make stuff...
...necessarily surprising, he says. Crazy stuff happened all the time at Shoemaker. Once, he recalls, a student urinated into a soda bottle during class and threw it in a math instructor's face. Crazy stuff. After hearing the big explosion, Hayes and his friends rushed out of the room and discovered that someone had set off fireworks in the corridor. "The school was in chaos," the 11th-grader remembers of the 2005 incident. "People were laughing and screaming and saying, 'Do another one, do another!' It was out of hand. But," he adds, in a succinct assessment of the crisis...
When the Crimson entered the locker room, McNally had already totaled 20 points on 7-of-8 shooting, with his only miss a three-pointer that rattled in and then out of the basket...
...other hand, the party wasn't always hopping. The schedule read, "11 p.m. XPAC Rap/Jam Session, live music and special performances by Rappers: Hi-Caliber, Young Cons and many more!" Alas, the reality - as a group of young Harvard conservatives found - was an empty room with a bunch of Wii video games (XPAC was strictly nonalcoholic). As the gray-haired contingent listened to George Will explore the future of the movement and ate at a "presidential banquet" upstairs at the Marriot Wardman, where the conference was being held, the cool kids had already moved on to Adams Morgan and beyond...