The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin | movie | 2017 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin celebrates one of the world’s most beloved storytellers, following his evolution  | dG1fekVBd1hPMlVnR2s

Transcript

00:00I'm so happy to hear that you're writing your memoir.

00:24I awaited it with faded red.

00:28I'm so happy to hear that you're coming out.

00:32Typical of anything that Armistead is involved with, Tales of the City, is the classic.

00:37And like a classic, you can pick it up at any time in your life and get something different

00:41from it that's just as powerful and just as meaningful.

00:45And you laugh and you cry and you feel close, you feel intimate.

00:50And that's something that everyone craves.

00:54Initially he was writing for a San Francisco audience.

00:57His neighbours.

00:58His friends.

00:59People you might meet at a party or in the street or at a bar.

01:03Just San Francisco people.

01:04Oh no, then when it was published as a book, well, America discovered it and then we discovered

01:09it in Europe.

01:10And when Armistead arrives in London for a book reading, he's a rock star.

01:16And the audience is very varied in age, in sexuality.

01:22The quirkiness of his writing, the honesty of it is something that just hooks people in.

01:27Oh, but all sorts of people.

01:29He loves the world but he does find it hilariously funny.

01:30Wonderful.

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