![]() ![]() Linney is our interviewer and she is doing so at a venue where she played recently in one-woman show My Name Is Lucy Barton to great acclaim. My first friend died in 1982 and I killed off Jon Fielding because I wanted to put the horror of AIDS into the middle of it.’ Sometimes I’d be told: ‘I know where you’re going with this story’ and I’d veer away.’Īuthor Neil Gaiman described the first few books as a ‘Trojan horse’ and it’s a comparison Maupin identifies with. ‘It was great having dialogue with my readers. ![]() I’d come in late having had fun the night before. ![]() ‘Sometimes I’d be writing Wednesday’s column on a Monday. Maupin reminisces about Tales’ origins as a regular column in the San Francisco Chronicle. I loved the material and the experience was just magical.’ I can’t imagine what would have happened if I hadn’t done it. Linney also looks back with affection: ‘ Tales was my first or second job and I was terribly intimidated by film and television. Linney (pictured in the clip from the 1993 1st TV series of Tales), a producer of the new Tales (see clip below), explains that there had been some resistance to Dukakis continuing the role because she is not transgender but excluding her didn’t feel right because of her commitment to the project from the very beginning. ![]()
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