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PEOPLE, Page 92Home Sweet TenementBy Howard G. Chua-Eoan
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.