Armistead Maupin: What’s changed since first ‘Tales of the City’.

More Tales of the City (Showtime) Miniseries 1998 Shown from left: William Campbell (aka Bill Campbell), Paul Hopkins (CREDIT: SHOWTIME NETWORKS INC./PHOTOFEST)

A biographer of Christopher Isherwood once remarked that the legendary writer’s friends seemed to grow younger and younger the older he became. There was a detectable whiff of contempt in this observation, and it irked the hell out of me…