 During the second half of the film, Curtis and Deena argue at dinner over Deena's desire to make her film debut in an urban film instead of the "Cleopatra" prequel that Curtis is producing.An angry Curtis asserts his creative and psychological control over his wife, informing Deena that he would not let anyone else "handle" her, because, in his words, "no one knows you the way I do".Curtis tells Deena that he put Deena as lead singer of the Dreams because her voice "had no personality.