Tales of the City Critical Essay | Critical Review by Stephen Harvey

SOURCE: A review of Further Tales of the City, in The Village Voice, August 31, 1982, p. 40.

Harvey was an American film curator and critic. In the following review, he focuses on the characters and plot of Further Tales of the City.

According to Michael, the Tales of the City trilogy's gay-clone Candide, there are two kinds of people in this world—or at least in San Francisco, which in Armistead Maupin's oeuvre amounts to the same thing. Either you are a Tony, one of those benighted souls who think the city's theme song is the Bennett rendition of "I Left My Heart in San Francisco," or a Jeanette, an aficionado of the blithe and gallant Miss MacDonald's anthem, "San Francisco," from the movie of the same name. Michael, ca va sans dire, is a Jeanette; his best female chum Mary Ann, a budding local TV personality, is one by...
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