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Tyler Perry, the capitalist vs. Tyler Perry, the artist
The rise (and fall?) of Tyler Perry
Tyler Perry's media empire spans television, film, and theater. Kevin Winter/Getty Images hide caption
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Tyler Perry is many things, but is he someone we should aspire to be?
Entertainment mogul Tyler Perry has built a media empire that has spanned theater, film, and television. And he’s recently been accused by an employee of sexual harassment.
Brittany is joined by entertainment journalist and author Tre'vell Anderson and SUNY Purchase theater and performance professor William Bryant Miles to dive head-first into the Madea-verse, asking how Tyler Perry became such a media powerhouse, and whether these allegations of wrongdoing threaten to topple the fraught media empire he has built.
<i>This episode was produced by Alexis Williams. It was edited by Neena Pathak. We had engineering support from Ko-Takasugi-Czernowin. Our Supervising Producer is Barton Girdwood. Our Executive Producer is Veralyn Williams. Our VP of Programming is Yolanda Sangweni.</i>
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