I've thought about seeing the plays when Tyler Perry was putting them on locally, but the movie ads strike me as quite off-putting. I like my sassy grandmother characters to have at least an undercurrent of grumpy warmth (i.e., Vicki Lawrence), and I'll I've picked up from Madea is generalized hostility.

Right. Not Medea.

The last trailer I saw showed one of the female characters as a victim of domestic violence. It also showed Madea threatening to kill a kid.

Now, I have no problems with the principle of corporal punishment of kids (some of the applications bother me), and I teach women to defend themselves against situations such as those depicted in the trailer.

The juxtaposition looked so bad, though. I doubt that Madea will be judged for the violence within the story (although I'm sure she'll come round and love the little tyke, who will be transformed by said love, but still a little sassy) and that the husband will be, sorely.

I do like Nick Chinlund

Yeah, me too. He has a goofy thing going on kinda but...the voice!

Or maybe it's because he played a creep.

Donnie Pfaster! I'm sorry, but I just can't see Chinlund as anything else after that. Every time he pops up my screen, I wig out, wondering when he will ask me if he could shampoo my hair. Acck.

I watched an interesting little movie called Nine Lives via Netflix last week, and William Fitchner was in one of the segments (the movie is composed of 9 separate segments, each about 10-15 minutes long) as a deaf guy who totally gets it on with his ex-wife in the wife #2's funeral. I never quite got the Fitchner thing, but he was great in this little section of the movie. Bonus: I learned how to say "jerk off" in sign language and... yeah, it's exactly as you imagine how it'll look.

He has a goofy thing going on kinda but...the voice!

Goofy! Nay! Grim and dangerous.

Scanning down his IMDB page reveals that he was in Buffy, and in a movie with a friend of mine. Kewl.

Or maybe it's because he played a creep.

He always plays creeps, now. He shows up on Law & Order every now and then, invariably as a creep. (Not usually a morbid freak creep, but sometimes.)

Poor guy. I am sure he would like to play more heroes, but Donnie Pfaster is kind of a signature role.

He shows up on Law & Order every now and then, invariably as a creep.

Yeah. He showed up on Without A Trace a few weeks ago as a seemingly nice guy at the beginning, and I was all, "Donnie Pfaster! No way that he doesn't have some creeptastic agenda!" and I was totally right.

I've caught him on TV playing a genuinely nice character couple of times, but each time, my brain was unable to overcome the cognitive dissonance. Poor guy indeed.

He's got nothing on Doug Hutchison or Brad Dourif for having the X Files establish a creep that I can't get past.

Curiously enough, I don't have that problem with Brad Dourif, since he's played plenty of memorable and interesting characters after the X-Files, and not all of them creepy. I credit this mostly to his sterling work as Doc Cochran in Deadwood though. He's brilliant in the role, cynical and compassionate and very human.

I don't think I have seen enough of Doug Hutchison post TXF to say if his creepiness outlasts Chinlund's. Lemme see... oh, he was in The Green Mile. I remember him! Yeah, creepy.

I haven't seen Deadwood, and Mr. Dourif went onto being Wormtongue, so it's a sealed deal for me.