Love Lessons From Our Favorite Spike Lee Joints
“She’s Gotta Have It”
“Ladies is pimps too…”
Nola Darling (Tracy Camilla Johns) could have easily been the prototype for Destiny Child’s “Independent Women” when they said “Do them boys like they used to do you.” Girlfriend had wised up to the game and decided to have everything she wanted in a relationship even if she had to date and sleep with several men to get it. She dated three very different men from the comedic and corny Mars Blackmon (Spike Lee), to the sweetie pie gentleman Jamie Overstreet (Tommy Redmond Hicks) to the conceited, pretty boy Greer Childs (John Canada Terrell). And even though all three men knew what time it was from the beginning, as their relationships progressed all three of them starting sweating Nola to date them exclusively. Nola taught us that we don’t have to be at the mercy and whim of a man.
