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- PEOPLE, Page 92Home Sweet Tenement
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- By Howard G. Chua-Eoan
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- As host of her own talk show, Oprah Winfrey knows how to
- handle controversy. That skill came in handy as she produced a
- TV movie based on Gloria Naylor's novel The Women of Brewster
- Place. The four-hour drama, which airs over ABC in March, cast
- several popular black actresses as neighbors struggling through a
- '50s urban tenement. Among them, posing with Oprah, are Cicely
- Tyson, Robin Givens, Lonette McKee, Jackee and Lynn Whitfield.
- More than once, Oprah, who made the movie before her famous
- diet, had to cool things when egos heated up. Recalls Jackee: "I
- said to Oprah, `In years to come, you'll learn how to be a diva
- just like the rest of us.'" But Oprah knows that too many divas
- can spoil the plot.
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