![]() ![]() I considered the two key ‘Judgement of Paris’ categories: Chardonnay and a Bordeaux-style blend. Probably the most famous drink is on page one – a strong Irish coffee at the Bueno Vista gives Mary-Ann the courage to leave boring Cleveland for bohemian San Francisco. Mrs Madrigal prefers home-grown puff to wine but the books are full of bottles. You won’t find it on any map – search for Macondray Lane instead. ![]() I went on a pilgrimage to 28 Barbary Lane. Mrs Madrigal calls them her “logical family”. Here the priggish Mary-Ann, hippy Mona, roguish Brian and puckish Michael live, love and grieve. 28 Barbary Lane is a boarding house ruled by the mysterious Mrs Madrigal. They live at the top of a flight of rickety wooden stairs on a fairy-tale lane in Russian Hill. ![]() Maupin’s characters are the most fascinating people in the most fantastical place. Netflix are rebooting the series with Laura Linney returning as Mary-Ann and Olympia Dukakis reprising Mrs Madrigal. Nine novels later, Maupin published The Days of Anna Madrigal – please let it not be our final fix. Tales showed San Francisco in all its rainbow colours and put gay characters at the heart of the story giving them triumph and tragedy. Told from multiple perspectives at a wicked pace, Tales started as a newspaper serial featuring real news: the Jonestown massacre, the hateful Anita Bryant and even the Queen’s visit to California in 1983. ![]()
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