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