Yet the series spends little time exploring the changes to San Francisco. Olympia Dukakis, now 87, plays Barbary Lane matriarch Anna Madrigal who attends her 90th birthday party in the first episode. She's bringing plenty of baggage, too, after a failed marriage and a TV dream that devolved into hosting infomercials for a snuggie copycat. 's new Tales of the City series, which premiered June 7, she comes back to her old West Coast home to reconnect with those she left behind - ex-husband Brian (Paul Gross returning to the role) resentful daughter Shawna (Ellen Page) old friends and gracious landlady Anna Madrigal, who gave her that apartment at 28 Barbary Lane. Because no one cares enough to send their very best."īut after a few years, Mary Ann does leave - not for Ohio, but for New York to pursue a career as a television talk show star. Trying to shake her out of her funk, hippie neighbor Mona Ramsey tells her, "Mary Ann … you can't sit around expecting life to be one big Hallmark card. One of the best lines in Armistead Maupin's original Tales of the City book comes when naive San Francisco newcomer Mary Ann Singleton wonders if she should ditch her new life to go home to Cleveland.
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