New Tales of the City Book
 

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.

I love the "Tales" books. I'm totally going to read this one when it comes out.
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Hooray !! Mrs Madrigal will be 100 !!! :D

BTW this visit to San Francisco, I want to go see Macondry Lane (being the one they used for Barbary Lane, I believe)

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!

Actually, she would be 86 this year. (The books gives her age as 56 in 1976, and turning 65 in 1985.)

:p Just cos my copy's in storage....

Oooo - do you have a copy of said production ???

I've decided to re-read all 6 books before the new one comes out.

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.

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.

Sings: "Send in the clones... there ought to be clones..." :p

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

yes, they were serialized in the San Fransisco Chronicle.

the books have fast-paced short chapters.

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.

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.