Tale of A Storyteller

SHOW: ARMISTEAD MAUPIN IS A MAN I DREAMT UP

THE BOTTOM LINE: A documentary wryly profiles San Francisco's best-known chronicler.

A former colleague recalls Armistead Maupin's arrival at the San Francisco Chronicle in 1976: "He would sort of come in about two hours after he was supposed to, plop down on his desk and go, 'God, did I have a night last night.' We would all gather around him and be regaled with stories of all the rich and famous people he'd been partying with all night . . . What used to really kill us is that then he would...

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