Entertainment News
2008-09-16
Liberace
Film in the Works
Director Steven
Soderbergh is reportedly developing a biopic on
flamboyant pianist Liberace. Michael Douglas has been slated
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Director Steven
Soderbergh is reportedly developing a biopic on
flamboyant pianist Liberace. Michael Douglas has been slated
to play the starring role, according to
Variety.
Matt Damon is
being considered for the role of Liberace's former partner,
Scott Thorson, who sued the pianist for $113 million in
palimony in 1982. The suit was settled in 1986 for
$95,000.
Liberace died the
following year at age 67 from an AIDS-related illness.
Liberace
constantly denied rumors that he was gay, and even
successfully sued the Daily Mirror newspaper in
London in 1957, according to The Guardian.
Mirror columnist Cassandra described him as
"the summit of sex -- the pinnacle of masculine, feminine,
and neuter. Everything that he, she, and it can ever
want ... a deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling,
chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, luminous,
quivering, giggling, fruit-flavoured, mincing, ice-covered
heap of mother love."
Richard
LaGravanese is slated to write the script, and Jerry
Weintraub will produce. (The Advocate)
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