Following Michael Douglas’ uncanny ability to inhabit the skin of Liberace, I spent Memorial Day locating an Aug. 22, 1988, interview with Liberace’s lover Scott Thorson — depicted by Matt Damon.

Liberace and Debbie Reynolds appear in the 1978 CBS television special "Leapin' Lizards, It's Liberace!" CBS/Landov When you enter Debbie Reynolds’ house in Coldwater Canyon, Calif., it’s a trip — ...

Michael Douglas’ Liberace made “Behind the Candelabra” a hit for HBO — and now it may be a musical. ©HBO/Courtesy Everett Collection Hbo scored one of its highest ratings ever with “Behind the ...

American pianist and entertainer Liberace (1919 - 1986) (left) and his companion and driver Scott Thorson, both dressed in extravagant fur coats, pause for photographers before they board a tour bus, ...

The '50s, like the decades leading up to them, were an intensely homophobic period. Muscle cars and macho men were the order of the day. Although Lee knew that many of Hollywood's most famous and ...

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RENO, Nev. | Soon after moving into Liberace's gaudy Las Vegas mansion in 1977, Scott Thorson, then a teenage hunk in the foster care system, learned the jewel-smitten showman could love just as ...

They’re back! David Saffert and Jillian Snow, aka Portland’s hot shot Liberace and Liza Minnelli impersonators, are back at Portland Center Stage with LIBERACE & LIZA HOLIDAY AT THE MANSION (A TRIBUTE ...

USA TODAY review%3A * * * 1/2 stars out of four HBO%2C Sunday%2C 9 ET/PT Michael Douglas and Matt Damon star Flame on. As you'd expect from a movie about Liberace (assuming you're old enough to have ...

Lee said that age is just a state of mind. “You’re as old as you feel,” he’d boast. And he felt very good as he began his sixth decade. When he was involved in one of his pet projects, decorating a ...

For all the razzle-dazzle of costumes worn by Michael Douglas in his uncanny incarnation as Liberace in the HBO film “Behind the Candelabra” — the crystals! the sequins! the furs! — the revelation for ...