JUST WHEN WE'D GIVEN UP waiting under the possibility of fulfilment of seeing Mouse.

JUST WHEN WE'D GIVEN UP waiting under the possibility of fulfilment of seeing Mouse, Mary Ann, and the other residents of 28 Barbary Lane again, Further Tales of the City is station to go into production as a four-hour movie primed for an early 2001 television airdate. "Filming is scheduled to start at the period of May," confirms Alan Poul farmer of all three miniseries based onward Armistead Maupin's classic San Francisco-set novels. Olympia Dukakis is signed forward to return as the mystical Anna Madrigal, as are Laura Linney (Mary Ann), Paul Hopkins (Mouse), Barbara Garrick (DeDe) and Billy Campbell (Jon) who's since become a big star in TV's one time and Again. Absent is redheaded, red-blood Mona, who's also absent from the Further novel--not that similar a detail stopped the filmmakers from bringing back "by popular demand" our favorite 70-something Nevada madam. "We added a of recent origin subplot that takes Mother Mucca onward a mysterious mission to San Francisco," Poul reveals of the screenplay, which is being cowritten at Maupin and playwright-actor James Lecesne "I think we're all in like manner comfortable with the life of the indicate now that everybody involved felt comfortable taking liberties." Great--so could Mouse have a one-night affair with a support Hudson-like celebrity?

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