Liberace was a fantastic musician. The youtube videos of his performances are all we need. I don’t care about anything else.
I’d be willing to live and let live on this issue, only the other side doesn’t want to.
I remember those days. Apart from Liberace, who was indeed obviously gay but never said so, I knew several other people personally who were gay. You knew that they were gay, but they never rubbed your nose in it, or insisted that you worship gaydom, the way they do now.
And I knew a couple of genuinely conservative gays. Not just libertarians who claimed to be conservative. In fact, one of them came and gave a talk at NYU about why it was NOT a good idea for gays to become political activists trying to force everyone out of the closet and naming everything else a hate crime.
Regrettably, he lost the argument.
Of course she would immediately hop to attention...and order us to change it back.
Life was hard...
Liberace coined the phrase “laughing all the way to the bank”.
I read one time, that Liberace had gone to sleep in his dressing room. The rug had just been cleaned with Carbon Tet and this caused him to pass out.
He was awakened when someone brought him the news that John Kennedy had just been shot and this is what prevented Liberace from dieing.
Brings back memories of the Mike Douglas show.
I like Michael Douglas (the actor) but it is sad when a biopic actor can’t possibly duplicate the charisma of the original. Liberace was a much more lively and fun character than depicted, it wasn’t just a lisp and fancy sets.
I watched Liberace numerous times and was always entertained immensely. He was the consummate entertainer and spared no expense in putting on a show. The fact that he was a homosexual did not matter....he neither endorsed nor condemned it!!!
He was also one of the early TV celebrities. Part of the reason his stage glitz was so elaborate on television was that it had to be communicated through a black and white medium. He may not have been Paderewski but he certainly had a real insight into stage presence.
I was never a fan but I did visit his museum in a Vegas strip mall after he passed away and I now believe is closed. He tended to creep me out when he was alive and I think I just went to the museum as something to do while in Vegas and look at his over the top memorabilia.
I didn't realize Paul Lynde was gay until after he died (I was young & naive when Hollywood Squares was on) but going back to read the one-liners are much funnier now knowing that he was. ;)
“Sin is a monster of such awful mein
that to be hated needs but to be seen
but seen to oft familiar of face
we first endure,then pity,then embrace.”
-Alexander Pope
Seems our society destroyed itself through tolerance. When it comes to sodomy, we should never have been complacent or “tolerant” in the sense of acceptance. There are only two acceptable ways to respond: law or grace. Grace is for the humble. Law is for the obstinate.
Today, militant and evangelistic homosexuality has been spread around the globe. It is a prelude to the end-of-the-world judgment which Christ taught would be in days resembling the time of Noah and of Sodom.
He taught to pray to be found worthy to escape all of these things and stand before the Son of man. He also warned to “remember Lot’s wife” — an allusion to her being turned into a pillar of salt when angels allowed their family to escape before the judgment of the wicked cities began.
I can’t imagine anyone thinking Liberace was straight. And the idea that American housewives would have been scandalized by finding out he was gay is absurd. American housewives circa 1950 were pretty savvy and pragmatic people. Living through war and economic depression gives you some perspective.
I tried watching this gay porn movie last night.
Too much homo erotica and I found myself turning my eyes away so many times, I just deleted it.
That kinda dispaly doesn’t happen in even good hetero movies and if it did, the movie would quickly become uninteresting.
I prefer allusions to things in my movies.
I imagine Liberace had to wrestle between the gay showman that he was and the “good Catholic” he wanted to be.
A lot of the flamboyance and camp was perfect for his time and it didn’t have to be homosexual in nature, just attention-getting. He still allowed middle-aged and elderly women to see him as a “good boy” which is what many gays aspire to - the approval of mother figures.
For any entertainer whose fame is based on living on the edge, the problem is that you have to keep topping yourself. It’s what I call the “Madonna Effect”. Talent got them by for awhile but after that they could only keep their names in the news by being more outrageous than they were the last time.
That eventually catches up with all of them. It’s a curse to have less talent than the appetite that craves fame and fortune.
Mrs. jimfree visited the Liberace museum in Vegas I believe Wednesday afternoon. She and the others in her group are costume professionals and enthusiasts.
The faggotry, the candelabras and costumes were not Wladziu’s biggest sins. It was bringing classical music to the level of a county fair, so that the culturally ignorant can say with a straight face without embarassment that this pretentious hack was a “fantastic musician”.