Tyler Perry wrote "we must never give up" in a heartfelt first-person essay in People magazine detailing his thoughts on racial injustice and police brutality against unarmed black people in America.
Perry said he almost passed on publishing his essay in the upcoming issue, which will be released Friday, but the filmmaker felt compelled to follow through because he's "exhausted" from what he's recently seen across the country.
"I'm exhausted from all the hate and the division, the vitriol that I see online from one to another," the actor-writer-director writes. "I'm exhausted from seeing these kinds of senseless murders play out over and over again with nothing changing in our society."
Perry wrote on various topics including how he felt after watching a white police officer kill George Floyd, and on being stopped and frisked himself in New Orleans and Atlanta. "The level of racism and brutality that George Floyd faced is something that we as black people know all too well," he wrote. "When I saw that video, I had so many raw, guttural emotions. I felt for him and his family. I felt for all of us as black people. I felt for my 5-year-old son."
'That '70s Show' actor charged with rape
"That '70s Show" actor Danny Masterson was charged with the rapes of three women in the early 2000s, Los Angeles prosecutors said Wednesday. The three counts of rape by force or fear come after a three-year investigation of the 44-year-old Masterson. An arrest warrant was issued, prosecutors said, but it's not clear whether he has been arrested. Masterson is charged with raping a 23-year-old woman in 2001, a 28-year-old woman in early 2003 and a 23-year-old woman in late 2003. An attorney for Masterson did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Masterson denied the allegations in a statement when the investigation was made public in 2017.
Award shows return: Jimmy Kimmel will host the first major Hollywood awards ceremony of the coronavirus pandemic — but just how the Emmys will be held remains cloudy. "I don't know where we will do this or how we will do this or even why we are doing this, but we are doing it and I am hosting it," the ABC late-night host said about the Sept. 20 ceremony. The network said details on the show's production will be announced soon. Choosing Kimmel to emcee the ceremony reverses course from last year's no-host Emmys. Nominations will be announced by the TV academy on July 28.
Action: "The Bold and the Beautiful" is resuming production, the first network scripted show to do so after the layoff brought on by the coronavirus. Safeguards include a COVID-19 coordinator on the set, regular testing, a staggered and minimized crew, and the requirement of masks and social distance for all except actors when the cameras are rolling.
