Further Tales of the City.

Further Tales of the City.

Further Tales of the City.
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Actor: Barbara Garrick, Jackie Burroughs, Laura Linney, Olympia Dukakis, Paul Hopkins
Brand: Showtime Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Original Language); French (Dubbed)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby
Running Time: 323 minutes
Published: 2002
DVD Release Date: 2002-09-17
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Showtime Ent.

DVD Reviews of Further Tales of the City.

DVD Review: Full-Frontal!
Summary: 4 Stars

Now that I've got your attention, I have to say that I was really worried about purchasing this "Further Tales Of The City" dvd set. It seems that many reviewers were having problems with the two-disc set, where either dvd would skip and freeze. Thankfully, my set didn't do that(whew!), but I have encountered dvds that did, so I can understand the frustration that many reviewers felt with this set.

I'm not going to talk about the plot just what's on the dvds themselves. This edition of FTOTC seems to be the shortest of the three. It runs at about 180 minutes, whereas the previous two ran over 240 minutes each. The set contains two dvds, the first one contains the entire FTOTC show and runs straight through. Unlike the previous series, where each episode ended after an hour, this one plays right through. It's like watching a three-hour movie.

The second dvd, contains all the special features including interviews with Maupin, director Pierre Gang, exec. prod. Suzanne Girard and Alan Poul, and the cast members (Linney, Garrick, Dukakis, et al). Also included are:

*Selected scenes with commentary by Girard, Gang, Burroughs(mother mucca)and Hopkins(michael tolliver)

*Behind the scenes footage

*Alternate scenes w/commentary

*Trailers from Showtime-I think that when it was originally aired, the show was broken into episodes and that's what these trailers represent

*Still shots comparing the look of the characters from the 70s to the 80s

*Cartoon of "Queer Duck"-a funny little cartoon about a gay nurse who happens to be a duck. You can access this by selecting the "Q" on the main menu page

And the running time on dvd #2 is 143 minutes! That's a lot of extras!

The show does stay remarkably true to the book with a little added to clarify things. Oh yes, there is full-frontal nudity in some scenes, like in the "More Tales of the City" mini-series, but it's all tastefully done.

I would have given this five stars but I can't get used to Paul Hopkins as Mouse! Even though Hopkins does a terrific job, Marcus D'Amico brought something unique to that role. And while watching scenes with the new "mouse," I find myself wondering what it would have been like had D'Amico continued on with the series.
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Description of Further Tales of the City.

ARMISTEAD MAUPIN?S FURTHER TALES OF THE CITY is the third installment of Maupin?s classic saga of San Francisco life. Set in 1981, the four-hour miniseries involves the residents of 28 Barbary Lane in a racy and rollicking adventure/mystery that leaps from Golden Gate Park to the home of a Hollywood icon to a remote island in the Alaskan wilderness. As usual in Maupin?s world, romantic entanglements abound. Landlady Anna Madrigal (OLYMPIA DUKAKIS) is stunned by her mother?s sudden arrival. Mother Mucca (JACKIE BURROUGHS) who runs a bordello in Nevada is in town to take care of personal business and meets a man from her past, Royal Reichenbach (JOHN MCMARTIN). When Mother Mucca introduces Anna to Royal, they find themselves in a rivalry over him. Madrigal?s tenants have their own stories from the past to unravel. Michael Tolliver (PAUL HOPKINS) is working at a nursery called "Best Laid Plants." He tries to get over being dumped by his former lover Dr. Jon Fielding (BILLY CAMPBELL) who went off to work on a cruise ship.

Exploring his sexuality full tilt, Michael embarks on a series of sexual escapades involving cowboys, cops and Cage Tyler (JOHN ROBINSON) a closeted movie star. Michael's friend and neighbor Mary Ann Singleton (LAURA LINNEY) is challenged with a relationship problem of a different kind. Her boyfriend and upstairs neighbor, Brian Hawkins (WHIP HUBLEY) who has spent most of his adult life as a womanizer, comes to the realization that he wants to marry her. She, however, is hesitant to take the next step as she is focused on her career. Longing to become a serious reporter, but not given a chance by her station manager, she is forced to work as a daytime host of the "Bargain Matinee" show. Mary Ann?s late boss? widow, socialite Frannie Halcyon (DIANA LEBLANC) is tormented by her daughter DeDe?s (BARBARA GARRICK) apparent demise in the Jonestown Massacre. Living on Mai Tais and sleeping pills, she refuses to accept that DeDe and her children, Little Anna and Edgar were killed. She seeks advice from psychics to help her find her missing daughter. When a fortune-teller convinces her that DeDe is indeed alive, she asks for the support of society columnist Prue Giroux (MARY KAY PLACE) to make her story public. When Prue refuses to get involved, Frannie calls Mary Ann to share her secret. Since Mary Ann is always searching for a good story, she is eager to meet in hopes of finally getting a break on the evening news.

Meanwhile, Prue meets a mysterious homeless man, Luke (HENRY CZERNY) in Golden Gate Park. Immediately drawn to his intense charm, she falls madly in love with him. Little does she know that she?s opening Pandora?s Box when she attempts to bring him back to society with the help of flamboyant celebrity priest Father Paddy Star (BRUCE MCCULLOCH). Luke?s past is far more sinister than Prue could ever imagine. Then it?s revealed that DeDe Halcyon Day has spent three years in Cuba with her lover Dorothea (FRANÇOISE ROBERTSON) after escaping the massacre in Guyana. She ends up in a camp for gay Cuban refugees in Fort Chafee, Arkansas and finally calls her mother Frannie in San Francisco to tell her that she wants to come home. Through DeDe?s unexpected reappearance and a twist of fate, the storylines begin to intertwine and all of the characters in Maupin?s tales find themselves in the midst of an unpredictable adventure.

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