Tales of the City News

Kicking it on the patio of the esteemed Directors Guild on Sunset Boulevard, waiting for the Outfest Legacy Awards to start, I notice actress Laura Linney mingling with assorted filmmakers, film lovers and supporters of Outfest, Los Angeles' prestigious gay and lesbian film festival.

Linney and Condon reunite for 'C Word' Her bitchy turns in "Mystic River" and "The Nanny Diaries" notwithstanding, Laura Linney usually plays nice, or at least pleasant, people.

Colin Ferguson has come a long way for a guy who for years was "painfully shy" and once washed dishes at Sam's Deli.

Producer-director Alan Poul and Clear Channel Los Angeles will be honored at Outfest's annual Legacy Awards on Sept.

"She made her way to the ladies' room and barricaded herself in the left-hand stall.

Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Laura Linney, who will return to Broadway later this season in Manhattan Theatre Club's upcoming New York premiere of Time Stands Still , will star in a new series for the Showtime cable network.

Here the who's who in the cast of the reading of the new musical version of "Tales of the City" starting this weekend as part of the National Music Theater Conference at the O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford.

Kay Ryan , 63, poet. The current U.S. poet laureate, Ryan has published 16 books of poetry.

Of course, a pioneering six-part British drama from 1993 about the lives and loves of a diverse bunch of free-wheeling residents of 1970s San Francisco couldn't be anything other than timid and old hat after all that followed - Queer as Folk, The L Word, Brokeback Mountain.