Angela Bassett is a failed actress who returns to the black middle-class beach town she left when she became pregnant at fifteen.

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Cigarettes, dirty socks, and a sweet tooth for women in this case, the shapely, impertinent maid, Camae (Angela Bassett), an angel delegated to transport King to paradise.

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The hotel was the setting for 1998's "How Stella Got Her Groove Back, " starring Angela Bassett as workaholic divorcee Stella Payne, Taye Diggs as much-younger love interest Winston Shakespeare and Whoopi Goldberg as sidekick Delilah Abraham.

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Tina, at fifty-three, is still performing and recording, and in the absence of the snuffed-out-in-her-prime option, the screenwriter, Kate Lanier, and the director, Brian Gibson, have constructed the movie as a kind of feminist survival story: Tina (Angela Bassett) rises to fame as part of a husband-and-wife act, the Ike and Tina Turner Revue, but then breaks away from her brutal, domineering spouse (Laurence Fishburne) and climbs back to the top of the charts on her own.

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