Final curtain falls at legendary Paris cabaret club Chez Michou
Chez Michou, the risqué Paris cabaret club that inspired the 1978 French film, La Cage aux Folles (which was remade in the US in 1996 as The Birdcage), has closed its doors after 68 years. Clients at the Montmartre institution, which brought drag entertainment to France in the 1950s, included the likes of Pablo Picasso Toulouse-Lautrec, Claude Manet, Liza Minnelli, and France's First Lady Brigitte Macron. Now, it's reported that a liquidator will be in charge of finding new owners. Despite the renewed popularity of drag acts around the world, the small nightclub has not been able to pull in cr...