Lee's black comedy of manners took the film festival circuit, and then the nation, by storm last year, a rare thing indeed for an independent feature. Shot in twelve days, after funds for another film suddenly fell out, this one is blessed by its make-do roots-there wasn't time for second thoughts, and with a spunky wit like Spike Lee's, we don't want them. The film is a sassy satire on the sexual marketplace that has deeper resonances in the way people sell themselves to themselves. Amid the artistic fringe of Brooklyn blacks, Ms. Nola Darling, confirmed polygamist, is in an excellent position to dissect the sexual psyche of the black American male: there are those who want to own her, and those who want to respect her...and then own her. Like Nola, Spike Lee loves a parade and from the vantage point of her bed he presents an in-your-face sociological analysis as the men file through Nola's life. Meanwhile, Nola, as played by Tracy Camilla Johns, is a pretty regular gal for all the fuss that's made about her. If she juggles the three front runners as mercilessly as they do her it's only because, as the title says, she's gotta have "it": a whole human being. Among the parts, Spike Lee as Mars (baby please baby please baby please) Blackman, as one critic noted, "takes the film away from himself."