"An extended love letter to a magical San Francisco."
-- "New York Times Book Review"
The internationally beloved classic comes to life in a Showtime
miniseries.
Few works of fiction have blazed a trail through popular culture like
Armistead Maupin's "Tales of the City" series. Since its publication as
a daily newspaper serial in 1976, Maupin's incisive comedy of manners
has expanded into six bestselling novels, the first of which became a
highly acclaimed television miniseries starring Oscar-winner Olympia
Dukakis as the irrepressible Anna Madgrigal, doyenne of 28 Barbary Lane.
Now "More Tales of the City" is becoming a Showtime miniseries, once
again starring Olympia Dukakis, Laura Linney, and Thomas Gibson, as well
as exciting new cast members, including Swoosie Kurtz and Ed Asner. It
will be broadcast in June 1998.
The tenants of 28 Barbary Lane have fled their cozy nest for adventures
for afield. Mary Ann Singleton finds love at sea with a forgetful
stranger, Mona Ramsey discovers her doppleganger in a desert
whore-house, and Michael Tolliver bumps into a certain gynecologist in a
seedy Mexican Bar. Meanwhile, their venerable landlady takes the biggest
journey of all'without ever leaving home.