McMillan says Plummer told her he was gay in December, six years after they got married and a month before the swearing-in ceremony that would officially make him a US citizen. The reason most Jamaicans work in upscale hotels is because they are poor; the reason Americans go to them is because they are rich. How Stella Got Her Groove Back is a 1998 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan, adapted from Terry McMillan's best-selling novel of the same title. After 10 years, you should have a pretty good idea about something as basic as that - particularly if you live in the Bay area of San Francisco. How Stella Got Her Groove Back is a 1998 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan, adapted from Terry McMillan's best-selling novel of the same title. Please enter the message. McMillan's novel Disappearing Acts was subsequently produced as a direct-to-cable feature, starring Wesley Snipes and Sanaa Lathan and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood. The reality on both sides is probably something far more fragile and tragic. This month she has another book coming out called The Interruption of Everything. Terry McMillan Booklist Terry McMillan Message Board. By Gary Younge. Her work is characterized by female protagonists. Derrick has a thriving business, good looks, and charisma to spare, but his success seems empty without a special lady to share it with. Stella Payne is forty-two, divorced, a high-powered investment analyst, mother of eleven-year-old Quincy- and she does it all. http:\/\/id.loc.gov\/authorities\/subjects\/sh2009113962> ; http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/702022#Topic\/african_american_women>. This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and (if not signed in) for advertising. "It was devastating to discover that a relationship I had publicised to the world as life-affirming and built on mutual love was actually based on deceit [...] I was humiliated to realise that Jonathan was not attracted to me and possibly never had been. ", But her current dilemma also chimes with the times - not least the issue of black men living on the "down low". ", "ABC News: 'Stella' Inspiration Breaks Silence", Les Meres et Debutantes Club of Greater Lansing, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Terry_McMillan&oldid=978133219, University of California, Berkeley alumni, Columbia University School of the Arts alumni, Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Numerous and frequently-updated resource results are available from this WorldCat.org search. She is an extremely angry woman who is homophobic and is lashing out at me because I have learned I am gay." This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. "He had opportunistically placed himself at an expensive vacation resort in order to meet and seduce a wealthy woman from the United States. How Stella got her groove back : [screenplay]. It could not have escaped his attention that if she ever got sick of him during these last 10 years, she could have done what she is doing now - call the authorities and have him taken away. The idea that many married men are having gay sex on the quiet is neither new nor specific to African Americans. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.\" ; Export to EndNote / Reference Manager(non-Latin). Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Emerging from a failed marriage, a series of flaky relationships and a serious funk, the bestselling African American author escaped to Negril, Jamaica, on holiday 10 years ago. Terry McMillan (born October 18, 1951) is an American novelist. Please re-enter recipient e-mail address(es). The problem is not just that Plummer has gone. How Stella Got Her Groove Back. Create lists, bibliographies and reviews: or Search WorldCat. McMillan also wrote The Interruption of Everything and Getting to Happy, the sequel to Waiting to Exhale. In 2014, Lifetime brought McMillan's A Day Late and a Dollar Short to television audiences, starring Whoopi Goldberg and an ensemble cast featuring Ving Rhames, Tichina Arnold, Mekhi Phifer, Anika Noni Rose, and Kimberly Elise. You may send this item to up to five recipients. It is a factor that has particular implications for public health. Terry McMillan at the 2008 Brooklyn Book Festival, "SO WHAT DO YOU DO, TERRY MCMILLAN, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR? McMillan had a fling that turned into something apparently more meaningful than a Shirley Valentine moment. Being told to leave the man I loved without saying goodbye was like a knife to my heart. In 1998, another of McMillan's novels, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, was adapted into a film starring Angela Bassett and Taye Diggs. http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/702022#CreativeWork\/how_stella_got_her_groove_back_motion_picture> ; http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/702022#CreativeWork\/african_american_film_and_television_script_collection> ; http:\/\/id.worldcat.org\/fast\/798998> ; http:\/\/id.worldcat.org\/fast\/799236> ; http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/702022#Topic\/african_american_women_travel_jamaica> ; http:\/\/id.worldcat.org\/fast\/895945> ; http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/702022#Topic\/friendship> ; http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/702022#Topic\/african_american_women> ; http:\/\/id.worldcat.org\/fast\/1204155> ; http:\/\/id.worldcat.org\/fast\/1027218> ; http:\/\/id.worldcat.org\/fast\/935174> ; http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/702022#Topic\/divorced_women_united_states> ; http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/702022#Topic\/african_american_men> ; http:\/\/id.worldcat.org\/fast\/799438> ; http:\/\/id.worldcat.org\/fast\/1002985> ; http:\/\/id.worldcat.org\/fast\/1211575> ; http:\/\/worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/id\/702022> ; http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/-\/oclc\/422506740#PublicationEvent\/1997> ; http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/-\/oclc\/422506740> ; http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/702022#CreativeWork\/african_american_film_and_television_script_collection>, http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/702022#CreativeWork\/how_stella_got_her_groove_back_motion_picture>, http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/702022#Topic\/african_american_men>.