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Broadcast journalism, which tends to be ponderous, pedagogical and visually dull, has less influence in West Germany than in the U.S. But it, too, is often outspokenly hostile to America. French Television Correspondent Michel Meyer reported in a study for the Aspen Institute, a U.S.-based nonprofit research center, that in almost two months of intensive viewing of West German television in late 1981, he "did not see a single broadcast that could be called positive or friendly toward the U.S., but numerous critical programs...
...Cage aux Folles (literally "Cage of Crazies"; in French slang, "Cage of Gays") is based on Jean Poiret's farce of the same title, which ran in Paris from 1973 to 1980; and it resembles the film starring Ugo Tognazzi and Michel Serrault, which became the most successful foreign-language movie ever shown in the U.S., grossing more than $40 million...
...takes off his dress and wig, is also Albin, Georges's lover for 20 years. Years ago, just to see what all the heterosexual fuss was about, Georges (Gene Barry) spent a few hours of passion with a showgirl. From that brief union came a son, Jean-Michel, who has lived ever since with Georges and Albin (George Hearn) in an apartment next door to La Cage...
...however, Jean-Michel (John Weiner) has a problem. He wants to get married, but the girl of his choice is the daughter of France's own Jerry Falwell, head of the T.F.M., the Tradition, Family and Morality party. How is poor Jean-Michel to explain his family, its tradition and its morality to that pious fanatic...
Albin too eventually gives in. When Jean-Michel's mother fails to show, he puts on his dress and plays Mamma himself. Though his ruse is discovered, the show ends happily, of course, with the girl's parents in retreat, Jean-Michel accepting Georges and Albin for what they are, and the two lovers-Georges and Albin, that is-walking arm in arm offstage...