[freekitty]

That’s sad. I loved his museum.

[GeronL]

That is because there are now an overabundance of nutcases

[hinckley buzzard]

Liberace was definitely a time-bound man of the Fifties, a character driven by early television. As the article says, nothing to remember him by. A man whose time has come and now gone.

[Stentor]

I could have sworn he had a gig in Branson last year.

[Alex Murphy]

Goldberg says many people, including his own mother, knew Liberace was gay. "But back then it would have been a catastrophe for his career, so he never admitted it up to the day he died, never came out of the closet," he said.

He didn't have to. He wore the closet.

[devane617]

To bad....I was headed to Vegas later this year and that was on my agenda.

[Revolting cat!]

It now takes two to replace him: Elton John for the flamboyance, and Kenny G. for the musical mediocrity.

[DemforBush]

When I was a little kid, I used to get Liberace confused with a character actor named William Campbell who appeared on a couple episodes of Star Trek.

[Fiji Hill]

The biggest problem for the Liberace Museum may be its location. It's more than 2 miles off the Vegas Strip, and visitors just don't want to make the trip.

In other words, its location on Tropicana near UNLV is in the "real" Las Vegas, where the locals go about their business. Few tourists are seen in these parts, unless they are looking for a good Italian sandwich at Cugino's on Maryland Parkway.

[Revolting cat!]

Liberace gay? You don't say!

[LibFreeOrDie]

Video: Tour of the Liberace Museum

http://www.5min.com/Video/The-Liberace-Museum-in-Las-Vegas-255889002

[I_be_tc]

My 2nd cousin did the act for the museum. Have to let my family members know.

[Revolting cat!]

I once met a glamorous fellow named Bryce, who said he was a friend of Liberace’s. When I heard from him the word “scrumptious”, I knew there was no reason to disbelieve him (true story!)

[Battle Hymn of the Republic]

I had no idea so many people here liked Liberace even though he was a flaming you you what.

I was not around then, but I guess its no different than today with all the people tolerating this sort of entertainment.

bread and circus...

[PghBaldy]

A shame. A real talent and a superstar. He also was good to his mother and to a (now defunct?) hospital here in Pittsburgh, St. Francis: "A very young and lovely nun wearing a white habit came to see me late one night, when I was very near death. She said she was going to pray to Saint Anthony for me, and he would make me well. The very next day, I began to get well. I described the nun to the Mother Superior at the hospital and asked who she was. The Mother Superior said 'There are no nuns in the hospital who wear white habits.'" http://hauntsandhistory.blogspot.com/2009/02/liberaces-midnight-visitor.html

[Wally_Kalbacken]

This will leave a gaping hole in the entertainment world.

[Revolting cat!]

Well, we'll always have the Eddie Fisher lookalike pretending to be Liberace! Two for the price of one.

[TASMANIANRED]

The first Elton John.

[Revolting cat!]

I thought Lee was Polish, not Jewish?

[Ciexyz]

I remember watching him on the TV variety shows with my Grandma, who really liked him. His fans have now largely passed on. You never see clips of him on TV infomercials selling his old performances like you do with other entertainers of that era.