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What Soderburgh's Film About Liberace Says About the Closet

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If you subscribe to HBO, you can go over any time to "HBO GO" online and take a look at a recent film about the life of Liberace, the iconic Las Vegas entertainer and closeted homosexual.

As a young, gay pianist of some promise, I was always uncomfortable with the very idea of Liberace. You can imagine some of the things I heard. Liberace remains alluring, and the young (and highly talented) pipe organist Cameron Carpenter continues the "Mr. Showmanship" tradition though in my opinion, Carpenter's virtuosity and creativity as a keyboardist and arranger far outshines Liberace's.

So, I went and watched the film--"Behind the Candelabra", starring Matt Damon and Michael Douglas--about Liberace's last years and his relationship with a young man, Scott Thorsen.

More over the fold.


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