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...show, Tyler Perry's House of Payne, and then, by 11:30 A.M., hop into his car and take a 15-minute drive to the set of his latest movie. There, he'd put his star Janet Jackson through her paces until well after the moon made its slow dance across the warm Georgia sky. Between all of that, he'd work the hell out of his cell phone, overseeing the production of his next TV show, Meet the Browns, supervising the finishing touches on his new 70,000-square-foot studio, and conducting endless interviews for his unprecedented 100-episode, multimillion-dollar deal with the TBS cable network. Does sleep figure into the equation? Not so much. Perry is his own army of one, doing more before noon than most people do all day.
"You're talking to a guy who does 330 shows in a year when he's on tour, so this is not really work for me," he says, while taking a break from filming to talk to ESSENCE. But as an outsider peeking into the House of Perry, you can't help but worry that the man just needs, well, a life--something other than TV and movie scripts to hold on to. Not like there aren't ladies willing to fill the void. Women pursue him backstage...
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