When Oprah Winfrey described their love scenes in Their Eyes Were Watching God as “reinventing the whole idea and notion of kissing,” moviegoers who saw the 2005 film undoubtedly agreed.

I also learned about it by reading a book called Their Eyes Were Watching God, by well-noted American author Zora Neale Hurston. He said that a TV film collaboration between Oprah Winfrey ...