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...fates were torturing Harvard, just two minutes after her second score, Corcoran again had the puck right in front of the Crimson cage. But this time she passed to linemate Kim Les, whose tally put Brown...
ANOTHER SEQUEL TO the La Cage Aux Folles trilogy has just hit the silver screen, and the two principal characters, Renato/Zaza (Ugo Tognazzi), the transvestite star of the Cage aux Folles cabaret, and Albin (Michel Serrault), the manager of the St. Tropez nightclub, are still being played by the original actors. Naturally, Zaza and Baldi have aged a little bit since the saga began--they mostly go by the names "Mammi" and "Pappi" as a concession to the passing of time...
...movie's plot, it is very simple. La Cage is losing lots of money when the movie starts. Conveniently enough, an old Scottish aunt of Mammi's has died and bequeathed her 10 million pounds sterling and so much land that it is just quantified in the movie as being "half of Scotland". There is--of course--a condition to this inheritance which naturally, Mammi has no hope of ever honoring. The condition states that Mammi must marry a woman and have a baby by her within eighteen months...
...Cage III, you are going to see a lot of Mammi. And you will either like or dislike the show depending on whether you adore or abhor Mammi...
...Mammi is extravagant! She gets to wear all the impressive costumes. My goodness, the regalia she wears on the screen! When she's on the cabaret stage, she gets all dolled up as the Queen Bee in La Cage's fall production of the Flight of the Bumblebee. And when she is just wearing her at-homes, she is often wearing fishnet stockings, with a pink mini-skirt. Ooooohhh-la-la Mammi...