Tyler Perry Unleashes His Feminine Side

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Most men think of their “feminine side” as soft and sensitive. But Tyler Perry’s female alter ego is a loud, pot-smoking, gun-brandishing grandmother: Madea, the character at the center of "Diary of a Mad Black Woman." Mr. Perry tells us about Don’t Make a Black Woman Take Off her Earrings, a new book he's written in character as Madea.

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