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JWBear
12-04-2006, 10:03 AM
For any Tales of the City fans… I just found out that Armistead Maupin has a new book coming out this summer. Michael Tolliver Lives! focuses on "Mouse" and how his life is at 55, living with HIV.

If you’ve never read the original “Tales” books, I highly recommend them. They’re incredible.
Gemini Cricket
12-04-2006, 11:40 AM
I love the "Tales" books. I'm totally going to read this one when it comes out.
:)
lashbear
12-04-2006, 12:11 PM
Hooray !! Mrs Madrigal will be 100 !!! :D
lashbear
12-04-2006, 12:12 PM
BTW this visit to San Francisco, I want to go see Macondry Lane (being the one they used for Barbary Lane, I believe)
Gn2Dlnd
12-04-2006, 01:53 PM
I was an extra in the British TV production. When it finally aired, I couldn't watch it. The scenes of life before so many of my friends died of AIDS were too hard to sit through. Years later, I was able to sit and cry through it.

I still haven't been able to watch Angels in America, and I stage managed a production of it!
JWBear
12-04-2006, 02:50 PM
Hooray !! Mrs Madrigal will be 100 !!! :D

Actually, she would be 86 this year. (The books gives her age as 56 in 1976, and turning 65 in 1985.)
lashbear
12-04-2006, 04:41 PM
:p Just cos my copy's in storage....
lashbear
12-04-2006, 04:43 PM
I was an extra in the British TV production. !

Oooo - do you have a copy of said production ???
JWBear
12-04-2006, 08:38 PM
I've decided to re-read all 6 books before the new one comes out.
JWBear
12-04-2006, 08:39 PM
Oooo - do you have a copy of said production ???
You haven't seen it?? (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106148/)
lashbear
12-05-2006, 01:54 AM
Oh, that one ! Yes, I own the boxed set of all those series. I didn't know they were British ! :blush:


Gn2Dlnd... where do you appear? I'll do a screen grab ! :D
JWBear
12-05-2006, 01:22 PM
Oh, that one ! Yes, I own the boxed set of all those series. I didn't know they were British ! :blush:


Gn2Dlnd... where do you appear? I'll do a screen grab ! :D

Which cast did you like better? I think the first cast was far superior.
lashbear
12-05-2006, 06:50 PM
Didn't care for the second Mouse. :( He wasn't as warm as the first. More bitchy/trashy & I don;t remember his character changing that much through the books.
JWBear
12-05-2006, 07:17 PM
Didn't care for the second Mouse. :( He wasn't as warm as the first. More bitchy/trashy & I don;t remember his character changing that much through the books.
Agreed. Although the 2nd Michael looked more like how he was described in the books - curly hair and mustache.
lashbear
12-05-2006, 07:37 PM
Sings: "Send in the clones... there ought to be clones..." :p
€uroMeinke
12-05-2006, 07:56 PM
Ok, I loved the PBS series of the first set of books, but never have read any of these. So, how do these read in book format - weren't they serialized in a newspaper?
Not Afraid
12-05-2006, 09:00 PM
Whichever series had Laura Linney in it was the one I watched and really liked. I believe I read the first book, but never read any others. It is a rare instance where I like a film version better than the original lit.
Gn2Dlnd
12-06-2006, 03:28 AM
Gn2Dlnd... where do you appear? I'll do a screen grab ! :D

IIRC, an underwear contest. NOT as a contestant. I'm wearing short denim shorts, a "love" t-shirt, and my hair is really long. It was shot at the closed Ambassador Hotel in L.A., the same hotel where Bobby Kennedy was assassinated.
lashbear
12-06-2006, 04:09 AM
IIRC
I'll look for you as soon as I figure what IIRC means... :rolleyes:


I assume it's at the Jockey dance contest that Mouse enters - where he's sprung by Jon
MickeyLumbo
12-06-2006, 06:46 AM
a long time ago, (in a far away land), i visited a girlfriend that i had met when she worked Magic Shop and I worked at Tobacco...

she lived in SF and had a new job... she suggested i read "this book", (Tales of the City) while she was at work and we would go out sightseeing when she got home.

I read that book cover to cover!:snap:

that night i bought all of the titles.

i really enjoyed how Maupin intertwined real-life current events and landmarks with the characters and storyline.

So, how do these read in book format - weren't they serialized in a newspaper?

yes, they were serialized in the San Fransisco Chronicle.

the books have fast-paced short chapters.
JWBear
12-06-2006, 08:58 AM
Ok, I loved the PBS series of the first set of books, but never have read any of these. So, how do these read in book format - weren't they serialized in a newspaper?
Each chapter is one of the serialized installments. The books are easy reads – light, frothy, satisfying. A serious reader can plow through all 6 in no time at all.
JWBear
12-06-2006, 09:09 AM
Whichever series had Laura Linney in it was the one I watched and really liked. I believe I read the first book, but never read any others. It is a rare instance where I like a film version better than the original lit.
Linney was in all 3. The characters who were each played by 2 different actors were Michael, Brian, Mona, D'orthea, Frannie Halcyon, & Emma (Frannie’s Maid). Mary Ann, Anna Madrigal, Dee Dee, Beauchamp, Jon, Prue, & Connie Bradshaw were played by the same people throughout.