How Whoopi Goldberg revealed the inspiration for Eddie Murphy’s Drag Granny and Tyler Perry’s Madea

One of the many interesting discoveries in Whoopi Goldberg’s Moms Mabley biopic, “I’ve Got Somethin’ to Tell You,” which I saw at the Provincetown Town Hall with John Waters in the audience, was Eddie Murphy’s on-camera confession. He said that he fashioned his sassy black grandmother in “The Nutty Professor” …

‘The Perfect Family,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine

HollywoodandFine.com Don’t trust the trailers for Anne Renton’s “The Perfect Family.” They make it look like an irreverent, iconoclastic satire, one that attacks hypocrisy among the pious – like something from the Farrelly brothers or, perhaps, John Waters. Oh wait – Waters already made that movie with Turner and called …

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