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Wherein We Attempt to Comprehend Cross-Dressing Media Titan Tyler Perry

6:55AM STV | In keeping with this site’s insatiable need to know, our ongoing questions about Tyler Perry — that Emperor of All Black Media who’s most handsomely paid to wear a dress — got the best of us today as his new film The Family That Preys opens in theatres. Far more than our previous subjects of Defamer Answers, Perry is a man whose mythology is both cultivated and oddly removed from his fame; having earned a combined $250 million in less than four years, his audience does his speaking for him. Is he gay? It doesn’t matter; TBS just bought 100 episodes of House of Payne. Why do critics hate him? It doesn’t matter; Madea’s Family Reunion opened at number one. More »

Wherein We Attempt to Comprehend Celebrity Lesbian Nexus Courtenay Semel

6:10AM STV | Last week’s debut of Defamer Answers seemed to go reasonably well, with our survey of the phenomenon that is The Jonas Brothers provoking rich discussion among fans, enemies and baffled cultural observers alike. This week’s edition finds us contemplating a far less-heated subject whose profile is surging nevertheless: Courtenay Semel, an entertainment industry scion and B-list lesbian whose exploits have landed her everywhere from reality TV to the interior of Lindsay Lohan’s pants over the last three years. More »

Wherein We Finally Attempt to Comprehend The Jonas Brothers

6:30AM STV | Look, we’re old. Not “old” old, but more like “the Olympics were so much better in Los Angeles” old. And definitely not “Beatlemania” old, but old enough to wonder if the Jonas Brothers phenomenon is anything like what we’ve heard about Beatlemania. We honestly don’t know — before today we’d never listened to a Jonas Brothers song, we’ve never seen them perform, we don’t even know which is which, only that the moppiest-headed one occasionally receives photos of Miley Cyrus eating her skivvies. More »