When Mars telephones late at night to wish her a happy birthday and wants to see her, Nola declines. Later, they go to bed surrounded by candles. He decorates a stone monument, and hires two modern dancers to enact a lovers' picnic to a song composed in her honor. Nola regrets being an only child, and plans to have a family with five sons.For Nola's birthday, Jamie arranges a surprise at a nearby park. Nola dismisses the idea, disrobes, and invites Greer to make love.Nola's musician father, Sonny Darling (Bill Lee), notes that Nola was an only child who had many interests, but never stuck with anything for too long. Later, Greer is chosen to be on the cover of the magazine Gentleman's Quarterly, and proposes marriage. Jamie brings Nola groceries and asks Opal to leave even though Nola likes having her around.Another lover, Greer Childs (John Terrell), claims to be the best thing to ever happen to Nola, and takes credit for molding her into a "sophisticated lady." On a dinner date, Greer insists he is all that Nola needs, and that Jamie and Mars are buffoons. She suggests that Nola try same-sex love sometime. When Nola comes down with a cold, Opal fixes her tea and teases that she has potential as a lesbian. However, Nola assures him that Opal is not a lover. Jamie knows about her other men, but he is bothered the most by her relationship with a lesbian named Opal Gilstrap (Raye Dowell). When Nola invites him to her apartment for the first time, he suggests they could be roommates, but Nola is not interested. Jamie's charm is what first attracted her.Another lover, "Mars" Blackmon (Spike Lee), is a bicycle messenger with an arrow design sculpted into the back of his head. Nola avoids forming attachments with "dogs," men with crude pick-up lines, who believe that a relationship begins and ends with sex. Her former roommate, Clorinda Bradford (Joie Lee), moved out because on weekends she would find Nola's many boyfriends in the bathroom. She makes love to her boyfriend, Jamie Overstreet (Tommy Redmond Hicks), surrounded by candles. "In Brooklyn, New York, graphic artist Nola Darling (Tracy Camilla Johns) juggles several lovers, believing this to be normal behavior. Then they act and do things accordingly." - Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God. Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember and remember everything they don't want to forget. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by time. Adisa, Leonard L.The following written prologue appears in opening credits:"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. MacKenzie, James Saxenmeyer, Jeff Ward, Joanna Gardner, John Fletcher, John Turturro, Jordan Brown, Keith David, Ken Garito, L.B. Nascarella, Bray Poor, Brendan Kelly, Brian Konowal, Calvin Hart, Carlo Vogel, Christopher Wynkoop, Craig McNulty, David Batiste, David Evanson, Delroy Lindo, Donald Stephenson, Elvis Nolasco, Frances Foster, Freddie Velez, Fredro Starr, Gerald King, Ginny Yang, Graham Brown, Hal Sherman, Harry Lennix, Harvey Keitel, Harvey Williams, Hassan Johnson, Isaac Flower, Isaiah Washington, J.
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