it's amazing what can happen when you give a man control over your life. >> do you feel like readers have been given license, so to speak, to kind of come up and talk to you and share their life experiences. >> well, i've had a lot of women who have done that for years but i don't take credit for liberating anybody. i am not oprah. i don't have that kind of power. i just try to tell -- i have tried to telecom pelg stories that are plausible. about realistic characters going through problems and experiencing problems that i think are realistic. >> there's more of terry mcmillan face-to-face. mcmillan said she just finished a screen play of "getting to happy." the movie rights have already been bought. she says three of the four stars of "waiting to exhale" are on board with this project. mcmillan says the only holdout