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musey_q-
I forget did you ever get to see Tales of the City while you were in NY?
I found a VHS with the second episode on it... it's weird.
First there's all the censored stuff. The language. They'd say "*** damn." It was the *** and not the damned that got over written.
Pixilated boobs. I know for a fact that PBS has shown topless females before- Danger UXB and I, Claudius being two examples.
Of course Danger UXB and I, Claudius never got bomb threats called in either.
Second, there's the cast- Laura Linney, Olympia Dukakis, Thomas Gibson, Paul Gross, Parker Posey, Ian McKellen (who I'd forgotten about but that Voice made me do a double take). Huge ensemble, and cameos by people like Bob Mackie.
Has anything else with a cast like that been done for television recently? I'm sure there has been, but my brain has seized up.
I'm trying too hard to remember where I was back in 1993- checking release dates... hmmm. Jurassic Park came out in June 1993... I was living in a hovel on Westover Ave. I hadn't moved over to Tidewater Drive yet. It was still part of the Crazy Times.
EDIT: Checking shows it aired on American Playhouse in January 94. I may have still been on Westover, or I may have been over by Tidewater- I know I was at Tidewater in September 94, since... um... heh. I remember watching the second season opener of The X-Files there. The more I think about it, the more it bothers me I can't remember. Yes, it *was* the Crazy Times, but this was an EVENT. Television has EVENTS all the time now, but this was something special.
I've been thinking about Maupin lately, with The Night Listener coming out this weekend. Thinking really, really hard... and I don't think I've actually read it. Not all the way through. Which is sad, since back in the day, I must have read and re-read the Tales of the City books -all six of them- half a dozen times.
Mary Anne and Michael ... once upon a time these characters were important to me. From book one to book six... you see these people grow over the decades, from macrame to Ninja Turtles.
Maybe I had invested so much in these people that Maupin's follow up Maybe The Moon just didn't hit me the same way. It wasn't as Important.
Even after our chat a couple of weeks ago about The Night Listener, I still haven't picked up any Maupin.
Maybe I'm getting stuffy in my old age. My priorities have changed.
When I was reading the Maupin, I was ... I don't know... evolving. Finding my self.
There's a scary thought... now that I've found me, I'm reading copious amounts of Horror and non-fiction. What can that mean? Heh... on the other hand the Crazy Times are a thing of the dim and distant past.
Eek.
Looking at the clock on the computer.... it's after 4am. No wonder I'm rambling.
Talk to you later,
Clay
musey_q-I forget did you ever get to see Tales of the City while you were in NY?
I found a VHS with the second episode on it... it's weird.
First there's all the censored stuff. The
Pixilated boobs. I know for a fact that PBS has shown topless females before- Danger UXB and I, Claudius being two examples.
Of course Danger UXB and I, Claudius never got bomb threats called in either.
Second, there's the cast- Laura Linney, Olympia Dukakis, Thomas Gibson, Paul Gross, Parker Posey, Ian McKellen (who I'd forgotten about but that Voice made me do a double take). Huge ensemble, and cameos by people like Bob Mackie.
Has anything else with a cast like that been done for television recently? I'm sure there has been, but my brain has seized up.
I'm trying too hard to remember where I was back in 1993- checking release dates... hmmm. Jurassic Park came out in June 1993... I was living in a hovel on Westover Ave. I hadn't moved over to Tidewater Drive yet. It was still part of the Crazy Times.
EDIT: Checking shows it aired on American Playhouse in January 94. I may have still been on Westover, or I may have been over by Tidewater- I know I was at Tidewater in September 94, since... um... heh. I remember watching the second season opener of The X-Files there. The more I think about it, the more it bothers me I can't remember. Yes, it *was* the Crazy Times, but this was an EVENT. Television has EVENTS all the time now, but this was something special.
I've been thinking about Maupin lately, with The Night Listener coming out this weekend. Thinking really, really hard... and I don't think I've actually read it. Not all the way through. Which is sad, since back in the day, I must have read and re-read the Tales of the City books -all six of them- half a dozen times.
Mary Anne and Michael ... once upon a time these characters were important to me. From book one to book six... you see these people grow over the decades, from macrame to Ninja Turtles.
Maybe I had invested so much in these people that Maupin's follow up Maybe The Moon just didn't hit me the same way. It wasn't as Important.
Even after our chat a couple of weeks ago about The Night Listener, I still haven't picked up any Maupin.
Maybe I'm getting stuffy in my old age. My priorities have changed.
When I was reading the Maupin, I was ... I don't know... evolving. Finding my self.
There's a scary thought... now that I've found me, I'm reading copious amounts of Horror and non-fiction. What can that mean? Heh... on the other hand the Crazy Times are a thing of the dim and distant past.
Eek.
Looking at the clock on the computer.... it's after 4am. No wonder I'm rambling.
Talk to you later,
Clay
