For Michael Douglas, his post-cancer comeback has fully arrived playing Wladziu Valentino
Liberace - better known simply as
Liberace - in Steven Soderbergh's feature-length biopic, Behind The Candelabra.
A simply delicious look at the life of
Liberace, it's a constant - and howlingly funny - delight.
Director: Steven Soderbergh Duration: 118 mins
LIBERACE always bowed down at the altar of excess.
Opens Friday THE STARS Michael Douglas, Matt Damon, Dan Aykroyd, Rob Lowe, Debbie Reynolds, Scott Bakula THE STORY In 1977, hunky blond-haired country boy Scott Thorson (Damon) catches the eye of camp Las Vegas music sensation
Liberace (Douglas) and they embark of a long relationship, with
Liberace showering Scott with gifts and moulding him - literally, with plastic surgery - into his own likeness.
Liberace was the most outrageous and camp entertainer in the world - famous for his flamboyant behaviour and love of diamonds.
They've been working on Steven Soderbergh's
Liberace biopic, Behind the Candelabra, to air May 26 on HBO.
For two costume designers, our visit to the
Liberace museum in Las Vegas in 2009, before it closed its doors in 2010, led to a journey we could not have imagined.
1919: Pianist and entertainer (Waldzin Valentino)
Liberace was born in Wisconsin.
Strathairn's Murrow is a man willing to make compromises, signing loyalty oaths and interviewing
Liberace and Mickey Rooney, but also enough of an idealist to inspire his colleagues and to believe his industry and nation are capable of more than Milton Berle or Joe McCarthy.
Yes, most afternoons around one a guy named Wes Winters does his
Liberace tribute show (not to be confused with a
Liberace impersonator show), in which he illustrates
Liberace's various musical styles with as much energy as, if not more than,
Liberace himself.
AUGUST--A NYC newspaper columnist overheard George Balanchine declare at the Russian Tea Room: "Nureyev could be great, but he prefers to be the
Liberace of ballet." ...