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Tyler Perry Transforms: From Madea To Family Man

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Tyler Perry is currently starring in the new action thriller Alex Cross, which opens in theaters on Friday.

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Originally published on Mon October 15, 2012 1:40 pm

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Whenever Tyler Perry is in front of the camera, he's usually behind it as well. A screenwriter, director, producer and star, Perry grew up poor in New Orleans, but he has become a movie phenomenon — he was described in the New Yorker as the most financially successful black man the American film industry has ever known.

12:40 pm

Mon October 15, 2012

Money Is The Object And The Subject In History's 'The Men Who Built America'

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History identifies these men in its press materials as "Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and J.P. Morgan." They are committing to the bit.

By Linda Holmes

12:33 pm

Mon October 15, 2012

Sandwich Monday: The Candwich

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And for the Holidays, try Thanksgiving In A Bucket.

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Some assembly required. Allen wrench & incomprehensible Ikea name not included.

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The good news is, the can makes an excellent receptacle for your tears.

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A look within.

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Originally published on Mon October 15, 2012 1:51 pm

Welcome Salt readers! We're Sandwich Monday, a regular feature from the staff of "Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me," and we're moving in here to provide an antidote to the informative and insightful posts to which you're accustomed.

11:03 am

Mon October 15, 2012

You've Got To Have Friends: How Curated Families Shook Up TV Comedy

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From Friends: Jennifer Aniston, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry and Courteney Cox. But you knew that.

By Linda Holmes

This week at Monkey See, we're looking at friendship in pop culture. We begin with a consideration of how half-hour comedies shifted away from being almost exclusively family- or work-focused.

6:03 am

Mon October 15, 2012

A Historical Account Of Revolution In Present Tense

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H.W. Brands is also the author of The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr.

By H.W. Brands

Originally published on Mon October 15, 2012 9:10 am

H.W. Brands is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin and author of The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace.

Every year, I have my graduate students read the great works of history, from classical times to the present. They gamely tackle Tacitus, ponder Plutarch, plow through Gibbon. Then they get to Thomas Carlyle and feel like Dorothy when she touched down in Technicolor Oz.

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