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 — ...

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, ...

Liberace had a jealous streak when it came to one of his dancers, former Radio City Rockette Jody Ghanem. Ghanem’s mother, Marilyn Erickson, shared the story in a telephone interview from New York on ...

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 ...

The Liberace beloved by audiences was nothing like the strange, perverse figure portrayed in HBO’s “Behind the Candelabra.” He used television to spread the fame he was already enjoying in live ...

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 ...

The holiday season may be blessed and bright, but for many, it’s also a headache. The parties. The traffic jams at the mall. The wrapping. But for Liberace, Christmas was joyous and festive. “Mr.

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 ...