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Best picture of Michael Douglas EVER. Promoting Behind the Candelabra.
VIDEO: Behind the Scenes of Behind the Candelabra!
Scream! See the video below and take in my take on the amazing adventures of Scott Thorson here, or reprinted at Nightcharm and/or the Huffington Post.
Just who was Scott Thorson, on whose memoir, Behind The Candelabra the new Michael Douglas and Matt Damon (who plays Thorson), the new Liberace movie is based? Find out all (and I mean ALL) here.
Legendary Liberace #2
Phyllis Diller has died, aged 95. Across her lengthy career she appeared with Liberace several times, including this 1969 spot on his TV variety show:
Legendary Liberace #1
Best. Signature. Ever. And who doesn’t request their beer be served in a champagne flute?
Liberace was obsessed with beer, and never missed a chance to mention his Milwaukee roots. The two came together in this perky rendition of The Beer Barrel Polka:
First look at Michael Douglas as Liberace!
Michael Douglas looks fabulous as Liberace in these first photos from the set of Behind The Candelabra, Steven Soderbergh’s HBO movie about the final years of Liberace.
I’m really interested in this movie, since it’s based on Scott Thorson’s memoir Behind the Candelabra: My Life With Liberace, and Scott Thorson is the guy who:
- started going out with Liberace in 1976 when he was aged seventeen
- was treated like a king by Liberace, and incorporated into the Vegas stage shows (see clip below)
- battled addictions and Hepatitis C
- filed a $113 million lawsuit against Liberace in 1982 amid allegations that Liberace “knowingly exposed him to AIDS”
- settled out of court for $95,000, two cars, and two pet dogs
- visited and reconciled with Liberace shortly before the entertainer’s death (at Liberace’s request)
- appeared as a pivotal witness for the prosecution in the quarduple murder trials of the head of the Wonderland Gang
- was put into witness protection
- but was found and shot five times
- told Larry King in 2002 that while living with Liberace he’d undergone a nose job, cheekbone lift and chin implant to look more like Liberace
- but later had the chin implant removed
- pleaded guilty to felony drug and burglary charges in 2008 and was sentenced to four years prison
- was rumoured to have had sex with Michael Jackson
- now lives with his wife in New England.
And this is before we’ve gotten to Liberace himself, much less the watermelon diet.
Plus, Matt Damon looks spunkier than ever, as if it were possible, done up to Dynasty as Thorson:
Picture of the Day: Liberace in a coffin, smoking, “The Loved One” (1965)
More about Liberace in The Loved One
Gay Scene: The Loved One (1965)
Liberace didn’t become the world’s highest paid entertainer from the 1950s through the 1970s for nothing, you know. In this clip from The Loved One and effortlessly shows off yet another string in his majestically multi-talented bow.
I’m awarding him a long overdue posthumous Best Supporting Actor award, and not only for his line delivery of “all our units are waterproof” (he appears from 1:40):
