Here’s another episode of Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City about a group of people living in San Francisco and their various romantic lives.
Laura Linney’s night shift working at the suicide prevention hotline doesn’t start well, when her boss is found hanging in the stairwell. He hanged himself with macrame. “At least he went organically.”
Laura Linney meets an older man in her building who looks like David Paymer but is actually Stanley DeSantis. She’s friendly, but I get the feeling she’s being polite.
In the next episode, Rod Steiger turns up as the owner of a bookshop.
Ian McKellen makes an appearance.
As does Janeane Garofalo
There’s a very loose plot here, about Olympia Dukakis’ character, Anna Madrigal, and a possibly shady past, but it barely registers amongst all the cruising of bars and bathhouses. Stanley De Santis is investigating, and thinks her name is an anagram.
After this episode, there’s most of an episode of Being with you is Taboo, looking at the difficulties of being black and gay. The recording stops during this episode.
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