Songs, Movies & Moments: November 2021
Movie mogul Tyler Perry is infamous for being a one-man band. He’s the sole mastermind behind all of his projects and is known for not having a writer’s room for his movies and shows.
A Look at Entertainment
by T.J. Moore –
Movie mogul Tyler Perry is infamous for being a one-man band. He’s the sole mastermind behind all of his projects and is known for not having a writer’s room for his movies and shows.
Now, he is ready to give other creators a chance.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Perry said he has “three or four more years” until he lets go of his all-encompassing creative control.
“My plan is to relinquish to a lot more directors and writers to take over a lot of these shows that I’ve started,” Perry says. “It’s going to be more of me overseeing, rather than doing the hands-on work. For the past six weeks, I was in the mountains. I wrote seventy-two episodes of television—just me in a room by myself, sitting out there …I start writing at 7 and don’t finish until 7 in the evening. I do that every day until it’s done. I love it and I love directing for 12- or 15-hour days, But I realize there’s so much more I could be doing if I were to hand some of the other stuff off—rather than doing it all myself.”
Wendy Williams will continue to sit out her daytime talk show for the remainder of November.
According to Essence, Williams is still experiencing complications from her ongoing health conditions and will need to continue to take time off from her show to get healthy.
The show announced the list of guest hosts that will fill in for Williams for the rest of the month, including Michael Rapport, Bill Bellamy, Jerry Springer, and Steve Wilkos.
Williams hasn’t made an appearance on Season 13 of her talk show. The season premiere was pushed back from September 20 to October 4 to give Williams time to recover from Covid. The premiere was later pushed to October 18.
Despite a recently liked tweet from his account saying otherwise, Minnesota Timberwolves center Karl-Anthony Towns is happy with his team.
Towns confirmed that his Twitter account was hacked recently, which resulted in it appearing as if he had liked a tweet that read #FreeKat.
The hack came following the Timberwolves’ 126-115 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers—their fourth loss in five games. The losing streak this season is what Towns has experienced through his entire seven seasons. Towns still has two years left on his five-year, $158-million deal with the Timberwolves.
In the aftermath of the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust, actor Dwayne Johnson has become the latest star and power player to ban the use of real firearms on film and TV sets. According to Variety, Johnson says that rubber guns would be the rule going forward for all the projects made under his Seven Bucks Productions banner.
“I can’t speak for anyone else, but I can tell you, without absence of clarity here, that any movie that we have moving forward with Seven Bucks Productions—any movie, any television shows, or anything we do or produce—we won’t use real guns,” Johnson said. “We’re going to switch over to rubber guns, and we’re going to take care of it in post. We’re not going to worry about the dollars; we won’t worry about what it costs.”
Johnson’s decision to ban real guns from his sets followed similar choices made by The Rookie show runner, Alex Hawley, and Eric Kripke from the Amazon superhero series The Boys.
