Armistead Maupin documentary (Arena, BBC2, 1992)
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- BBC2, 27-03-1992, Armistead Maupin Is A Man I Dreamt Up: "Tales of the City first appeared in the 70s as a daily column in the San Francisco Chronicle. Armistead Maupin's stories about life in San Francisco as seen through the eyes of a zany cast of characters had such a massive following that he adapted them into a series of six bestselling novels. Tonight's film examines Maupin's varied and controversial career, including his lifelong involvement in gay rights. It also discovers some of the people who provided the inspiration for his characters and visits the city's walkways and backwaters that are the setting for his novels."
Narrated by Ian McKellen
Not my copyright, just sharing found ephemera.
Thanks for this.
As a 53 yo Queer, my coming out in the early 80s coincided with the AIDS crisis, and I discovered Armistead and his tales in the mid 80s. It was likely finding my "logical family".
Lovely also to see the "Arena" opening sequence. So much of my early education as a Queer came from programmes such as that.
I moved to San Francisco in 1997 from New Jersey and it was the BEST time of my life. I since moved back to my home state in 2009 but I will NEVER forget my magical time living there.
Just discovering this now - I missed the Tales television series in the 90's - wrong age - but I am discovering it all now. Thanks, Netflix!
I just bought the documentary, "Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin" and I loved it as it was so much fun It was filled with so many colorful stories of his life from childhood ,when he was in the Navy and being a young man in San Francisco. This is how "The tales of the city" were born.I have read all the books and I've seen the mini-series over5-6t times. My favorite is the first one, their was a special chemistry that was there with the cast ,crew ,director ,producers ,and screenwriter.I really admire Armistead Maupin for writing such colorful characters that has so much heart and life and adventure in them.
That one is terrific, but I like many above remember this one from years ago. Both are treasures!
Thank you very much for posting this. I love the books and the original TV series, but I had never seen this documentary before. Cheers🙂👍🏼💜
You're very welcome :)
Three cheers to whoever put this here! With all of the renewed interest in "Tales", and the fabulous documentary last year, I remembered in the back of my mind that this earlier one had come out, and I found my recording of it, off the TV, on VHS--sadly I have no VHS players hooked up anymore! Now it's here for everybody to discover!
Glad you enjoyed!
HArvey is a legend. His faith in his Fo
llowers and courage and tenacity showed I'm to be someone we could trust.
Him ....just correcting what this hacker has tried to ridicule.
Thank you SOOOOO much for posting this! I have been looking for this for years! I even asked Armistead Maupin on Facebook if he knew where to get it and he said no!
Well, seek and ye shall find (or whatever). Glad to be of service :)
I had just finished the 90s series Tales of the City a few years back then once i finished it i started looking into it and saw that Netflix was going to debut the new special the day after I watched the old one on Amazon. Great timing.
Thank you so much - This is great!
I imagine your archives are amazing ;)
I taped for most of the 90s.... then stopped. Funny to think these programmes are so ancient! :)
Thank you for posting this! I had forgotten this video save the opening title shot. I hope someone directs Armistead Maupin himself here. :-)
I love this documentary, thank you for posting it. I first found Armistead Maupin on Netflix. I had never heard of Armistead or his TV show, I wish I had. I loved what I saw on Netflix, there was only one series of it though. 😢. Maybe there will be a new series done, but I want the same actors in it somehow
Thanks so much for posting this!
I've been bingeing on TotC so this is just right! Thanks YT.
I absolutely love Armistead and Tales of The City. San Francisco is the most amazing place on earth. Love it, love it, love it!!!!!!❤
Never knew the history of the coming Netflix series 'Tales of the City'. I only knew it was about queer people and it had Ellen Page in it. But as I usually do, I started to research and until I found out about the books and author! I'm even more excited!
First read this history in the eighties.....when the odds were so against them. However they triumphed because HArvey was one of the great heroes.
This was a mini series that was very interesting... It was on channel two in Massachusetts commercial free! Public broadcasting truly is the best television.
I liked the cashier at that interview, she was knowledgeable and happy.
I love seeing the S curve on the J-Church Muni line. (17:22). This is the view down from Liberty Street before arriving at Dolores Park (behind the camera). This portrait captures much of the hopefulness of San Francisco transplants who were largely motivated by the open-minded idealism of the late 1960s.
💗 saw him in Philadelphia at the free library when he came to read here around 2014 or 2015✳️
Glanced at all the comments on here. Seems I'm the only one posting his say so far who has read the book. The only thing that was hard foe me to read was the fashions drop. I mean the clothes and accessories by the sophisticated designers in vogue back then Amastead would reference, extensively, to make critical or satiric points in the flow of his narrarive. Since I was merely a plain ol relatively unsophisticated working class straight or "cis male" reader of his novel, I wasn't at all familiar with these cosmopolitan clothing and shoes designers, I would naturally get hung up here and there. So I felt like I wasn’t getting the complete idea of Maupin's points in many areas of his novel. But I managed to take it in stride, feeling then that I knew that many, well to me, Gay men tend to be very fasion conscious 'n stuff like that.
Kind of a similar experience of me reading Dostoyevsky's "The Adolescent", as French expressions and sentences was used by him in many spots of the book, and me not knowing any French, sometimes made it hard for me to read, I mean that it kind of bothered be that I was missing out on the complete sense of a, well, many a paragraph. Oh well...I had to accept it and keep moving on, having to be content with whatever I got out of reading the entire book.
No captions! So sad...I am HOH and can’t understand what the narrator is saying!
Sorry. I'm partially deaf myself, and have no idea how to get subs on YT vids :/
Wow, look at Kate Bornstein here! What a treat. Love.
Shame wish he would write more tales of the city. Shame the new netflix killed off Anna. I wasn't too keen on the new show but I its moving with the times
Thx Netflix!
What happened to his partner of 1992?
I loved the priest described as Spiritual Decorator...😄😆🤣
It isn't so much literature, as rough draft screenplays of life in SF.
Michael is the "gay" character, and May-and is the ambitious side of [amistead], and mona is "ambitious", while, Madrigral, "came for me", (I thing). Wow, hella gay, Armistead.
California used to be so beautiful.😢
Now?
Potter, like your content. Wanna go for a coffee water fountain?
Yes. Coffee please, Wink.
im so sorry for losing that fucking book.
A book that fucks?
That's a new one.
Was it good in bed with you? Or did you find it boring nighttime reading ?
:)
This guy claims he was with Rock Hudson. Of all the good looking men around in his day why would he pick someone less than average. It is easy to say things when the other person is dead and can't refute them. The shows are great but what I hear of this guy makes me dislike him personally.
nice mustache
imagine me thinking this is what San Francisco is like, moving there to find out the hard truth... the actual gay scene a hysterical nightmare and the city chock full of homeless folks unable and incapable of helping themselves, while renting an appartment costs $3000+ a month... it's nuts folks!
Yeah that city is very expensive to live in. Not sure if more so than LA or New York city.
I am very supportive of anyone wishing to come out, but learning that Maupin did this on “behalf” of Rock Hudson was, I feel, a horrible violation of his privacy. He may have thought he was doing him a favor, but this is a very personal and sensitive area for most gays and individuals should be allowed to come out when and only when they’re ready. It’s not ANYONE ELSES business to “do it for them”! I was very interested in Armisted’s story but now I’m just feeling disappointed. We have to respect one another and that means honoring another person’s secrets and their privacy. 😔
He was dead so it didn't matter