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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...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...
...best, the plot is only an excuse to have Mammi on the screen as much as possible. She carries the show for the whole 98 minutes, and even though she drops it several times, the movie is worth seeing...
Toad processed words like a demon. His fingers flew across the keys, and the words arrayed themselves on a magic screen before him. Here was a miracle that imitated the very motions of his brain, that teleported paragraphs here and there--no, there!--as quickly as a mind flicking through alternatives. Prose with the speed of light, and lighter than air! Toad could lift 10 lbs. of verbiage, at a whim, from his first page and transport it to the last, and then (hmmm), back again...
Words come differently this way, thought Toad. To write a word is to make a thought an object. A thought flying around like electrons in the atmosphere of the brain suddenly coalesces into an object on the page (or computer screen). But when written in longhand, the word is a differently and more personally styled object than when it is arrayed in linear file, each R like every other R. It is not an art form, God knows, in Toad script, not Japanese calligraphy. Printed (typed) words march in uniform, standardized, cloned shapes done by assembly line. But now, thought...