The First Tyler Perry Production That Might Get A Snob To Pay The $10

Kathy Bates, Alfre Woodard, Sanaa Lathan, Rockmond Dunbar, Taraji P. Henson and Cole Hauser? Part of me knows that this flick might be crappy, considering Perry is rocking the world's most unnecessary wig-fro and the dialog sounds like something from "The Young & The Restless," b-b-b-but ... it has Sanaa Lathan, Rockmond Dunbar and Cole Hauser! Lathan, who is gorgeous and talented. Dunbar who I loved on "Prison Break" and is handsome and sweet like a Milk Dud. And Cole Hauser, the only person who could act and have some sexual charisma at the same time in that Post-Katrina homage/train wreck of a cop show "K-Ville."

I ... I ... I just don't know how to feel. Perhaps I'll rent "Why Did I Get Married?" to prepare myself. I'm picking that one because I can't bring myself to watching anything with Madea in it and all Perry's films sound incredibly preachy and over-the-top, but "The Family That Preys" might not be crappy. Right? Right?

Morgan Freeman in Serious Condition After Car Accident

From The Associated Press:

JACKSON, Miss. - Academy Award winning actor Morgan Freeman has been injured in car accident in Mississippi and is in a Memphis hospital.

Regional Medical Center spokeswoman Kathy Stringer says Freeman is in serious condition.

The hospital, commonly known as The Med, is an acute-care teaching facility that serves patients within 150 miles of Memphis.

Ashley Norris, manager of the Ground Zero Blue Club in Clarksdale that is owned by Freeman, confirmed the actor was in a wreck. Norris said she had no other details.

The accident apparently occurred in Tallahatchie County Mississippi, but the sheriff's department referred calls to the Mississippi Highway Patrol. A highway patrol spokesman was not immediately available for comment.

I hope he'll be all right because he's one of my favorite actors and he's an all around cool guy. He chose to stay in the South rather than move to Los Angeles. He loves jazz and blues. He was in "The Shawshank Redemption." (And has an Oscar ... finally.) Let's all hope he'll make it out all right for his wife and family's sake.

Someone Please Give These People A Job

A series featuring my favorite underemployed blacktors and blacktresses.

I'm not going to admit that I came up with the term "blacktors and blacktresses." Anyone who closely watched "In Living Color" back in the '90s would recall a David Alan Grier skit where he played the host of a black awards show that was basically an exaggerated version of the Soul Train Awards mixed with the NAACP Image Awards, only it gave awards for best scared black man in a police show and Whoopi Goldberg was nominated a ton of times as she seemed to be the only black woman getting steady work in the '90s.

Which brings me to my point. I am a lover of film and television. I own an insane amount of movies from the eclectic and high brow (Julie Taymor's "Titus" and the film version of "Marat/Sade") to mob movies ("Goodfellas," my personal greatest film of all time) to sci-fi (All three "Terminator" flicks, "RoboCop" and "Starship Troopers" and I'm a "Trekkie"). So I get frustrated that there are so few quality films with black people in them and the few there are always either triumph over racial adversity flicks or the most depressing films ever. (Don't get me started on why I try to avoid watching "Glory," it always suckers me and I end crying through the whole damn thing EVERY TIME!)

So this is my occasional shout to Hollywood to give a favorite sporadically employed actor something decent to do other than making extra scratch doing plays and teaching at The Learning Annex or maybe managing a Barnes & Noble.

Please Hollywood, give these people a job. (Or a better one than they have now.)

Aisha Tyler

Current Job: She played "Jane" in the 2008 indie film "Meet Market" and is playing Casey Spandeau in "Black Water Transit," a big budget crime/drama pick also starring Laurence Fishbourne, Evan Ross, Stephen Dorff and Brittany Snow. It is currently in post-production for a 2008 release.

Claim to fame: Her wicked standup comedy, her Dartmouth degree, E!'s "Talk Soup" and her one-off as the first recurring black character on "Friends" in the show's final season.

Why she should be more famous than she is: She's funny, she's smart, she's tall, she's pretty. Really? What's the problem here? Does Hollywood have something against tall, beautiful black women? And what was up with that stint on "The Ghost Whisperer?" I was glad she was getting a steady check, but then, boom, her character is axed. (Possibly as part of that black actor Holocaust that started pre-writer's strike with Isaiah Washington's foot-in-mouth moment of hubris and is still going, claiming the jobs of Jesse L. Martin and Gary Dourdan ... although Gary might have been high at the time.)*

If ... wait, not if but ... WHEN they make Barack Obama the Movie Aisha should be somewhere at the top in the running to play Michelle Obama. Right there with other super tall under utilized black actresses like Gina Torres. While I think Gina's the better actress, Aisha actually looks a little bit like Michelle. Or like Michelle's super hot cousin once removed. Either way. Michelle has great comic timing and frank, cool attitude. Aisha was born cool.

Other things I'd gladly take Aisha on: Any cop procedural show, "Grey's Anatomy" (You own me another hot black doctor, male or female, Shonda!), or her own show on a viable network. Not some backwater burg like the CW. I'd also like to see her a big budget Will Smith production. Aisha looks like she was made for a summer blockbuster action/comedy. I'm talking to you, Mr. Smith! Hook-a-smart-funny-sista up!

Or something where she stars opposite Jamie Foxx, but nothing with Eddie Murphy. Poor Gabrielle Union. Did anyone go see her in "Meet Dave?"

That said, make this happen, Hollywood!

*Down thread someone mentioned that Aisha left "Ghost Whisperer" of her own volition, which is, like, cool with me because the show was gawd awful. I was also informed that she's been on "24," which, alas, I did not know because I didn't start watching "24" until season three or four.