TYLER PERRY FEELS INSULTED BY SPIKE LEE'S COMMENTS!

A celebrity feud may be brewing between Tyler Perry and Spike Lee. The movie mogul behind the recent box office hit "I Can Do Bad All By Myself" told "60 Minutes" that he's "insulted" and "pissed off" by comments Lee made about his work last May.
During an interview with Perry, which aired last night, correspondent Byron Pitts read Perry a Spike Lee quote, saying, "Spike Lee has said, and I quote, 'I think there's a lot of stuff out today that is coonery and buffoonery. I see ads for 'Meet the Browns' and 'House of Payne' and I'm scratching my head. We've got a black president and we're going back. The image is troubling and it harkens back to Amos 'n' Andy."

Lee made the comments last May, during an interview he gave at the 14th annual Black Enterprise Entrepreneurs Conference.

In response, the 40-year old filmmaker told Pitts, "All these characters are bait - disarming, charming, make you laugh bait. I can slap Madea on something and talk about God, love, faith, forgiveness, family, any of those."

Perry said characters like Madea are based on real-life members of his own family. He told Pitts, "It's attitudes like [Lee's] that make Hollywood think that these people do not exist and that's why there's no material speaking to them."

While Lee may not see the merit in Perry's films, Oprah Winfrey does. She told Pitts, "I think [Perry] grew up being raised by strong, black women. And so much of what he does is really in celebration of that. I think that's what Madea really is a compilation of all those strong black women that I know and maybe you do to? And so the reason it works is because people see themselves."

Perry and Winfrey have recently collaborated to release the Sundance favorite, "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," which hits theaters November 6th.