Armistead Maupin

After suffering personal calamities in New York, Mary Ann Singleton moves back to San Francisco after being gone for twenty years and begins to slowly rebuild her life, only to confront fresh terrors when her past comes back to haunt her.

A gay writer famous for his radio stories becomes the surrogate father to a thirteen-year-old child abuse victim, which forces him to confront his relationships.

While Anna Madrigal imprisons an anchorwoman in her basement, Michael Tolliver looks for love at the National Gay Rodeo, DeDe Halcyon Day and Mary Ann Singleton track a charismatic psychopath across Alaska, and society columnist Prue Giroux loses her heart to a derelict living in a San Francisco park.

The lovelorn residents of a San Francisco apartment house are shown loving, living, and living it up as late 20th century urban life is depicted.

All of 31 inches tall, Cady is a true survivor in a town where -- as she says -- "you can die of encouragement." Her early starring role as a lovable elf in an immensely popular American film proved a major disappointment, since moviegoers never saw the face behind the stifling rubber suit she was required to wear. Now, after a decade of hollow promises from the Industry, she is reduced to performing at birthday parties and bat mitzvahs as she waits...

Radio show host Gabriel begins talking to a young boy who claims to be his biggest fan via the telephone, but when he tries to visit the boy, questions about his identity arise throwing Gabriel's life into chaos.

Benefit of the doubt: Over twenty years ago, Karen (Amy Irving) delivered the testimony that sent her father Frank (Donald Sutherland) to jail for murdering her mother. But when Frank returns home to see his daughter after serving his time, he seems like a changed man. As he gradually works his way back into her life, things take a turn for the worse and now Karen must decide whether to question Frank's intentions or give him the Benefit of the Doubt. The...