One of my first assignments when I started working in entertainment journalism at the now-defunct movie magazine Premiere was to interview Nathan Lane for “The Birdcage.”
It was for a section in the magazine called “In the Works,” where we published a first-look image from a film with a 300-word article.
An English-language adaptation of the 1978 French comedy “La Cage Aux Folles,” “The Birdcage” stars Lane as Albert, a professional drag queen whose partner Armand is played by Robin Williams. Albert is asked to leave their house for a night when their son (Dan Futterman) comes home and plans a family dinner for his fiancé (Calista Flockhart)
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