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Further Tales of the City premiers to
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by Jackie loachim
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May 24, 1976, the first episode of
Armistead Maupin s groundbreaking Tales of the
City serial was published in the San Francisco
Chronicle. Marking its 25th anniversary,
Armistead Maupin’s Further Tales of the GVy will
premiere on Showtime this
May. Beginning Sunday
evening May 6 and airing
four consecutive weeks, this
four-part drama is the third
miniseries based on Maupin’s
classic saga of life in San
Francisco.
Further Tales stars Olym
pia Dukakis, Laura Linney,
Billy Campbell, Paul
Hopkins and others in a de
liciously dark adventure
mystery that jumps from 28
Barbary Lane to a shack in
Golden Gate Park to a re
mote island in the Alaskan
wilderness. The miniseries
was adapted by the author
and James Lecesne from
Maupin’s third Barbary Lane
novel, Further Tales of the City.
Further Tales is set in 1981, four years after
More Tales of the City concluded. In this vol
ume, Michael Tolliver (Hopkins) pursues cops,
cowboys and a closeted movie star while get
ting over his breakup with Dr. Jon Fielding
(Campbell), who is now working on a cruise
ship. Mary Ann Singleton (Linney) debates
marrying her boyfriend Brian (Whip Hubley)
while searching out the big story that will make
her a “real” reporter. Meanwhile, socialite DeDe
Halcyon (Barbara Garrick) returns from the
dead after the Jonestown Massacre and land
lady Anna Madrigal (Dukakis) meets a new
beau with the help of her brothel-running
mother (Jackie Burroughs). As always in
Maupin’s work, these seemingly unrelated
strands finally connect in a huge tragic-comic
tapestry.
The first of the Tales of the City novels was
dramatized to great acclaim on Britain’s Chan
nel 4 in 1993. But when imported to the US by
PBS the following year, its casual treatment of
nudity, drug use and homosexuality ignited a
firestorm of controversy. Though officially con-
Further Tales cast members take a break on
Barbary Lane.
demned by the legislature of South Carolina —
as well as other southern states — the miniseries
went on to win a Peabody Award, receive two
Emmy nominations and by recognized by En
tertainment Weekly as one of the 100 greatest tele
vision shows yet.
Under intense political pressure, PBS aban
doned plans to continue with Tales, and
Showtime developed Armistead Maupin’s More
Tales of the City in 1998, garnering five Emmy
Nominations.
The six novels in the Tales series (which in
addition to Tales, More Tales and Further Tales
includes Babycakes, Significant Others and Sure
of You) have become worldwide best sellers,
translated into a dozen languages with four
million copies in print. ▼
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