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17 Girls: "Pregnancy Pact" Flick Has a Lot of Style, Not Much Substance

By Thembi Ford
Sep 27, 2012

17 Girls Movie Review: "Pregnancy Pact" Flick Has a Lot of Style, Not Much Substance
The Mainstreaming of Madea

Tyler Perry's mammy gets less melodramatic but not less grotesque.

By Thembi Ford
Jun 28, 2012

For many, especially black people who see in her a mockery of our own grandmothers, Tyler Perry's Madea is little more than a mammy—an insult to the matriarchal community figure that Perry claims to celebrate. And unforgivably, when compared to Flip Wilson's Geraldine or even Martin Lawrence's Big Momma, his...

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