Reviews Are In: Candelabra a 'Slam-Dunk'

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Reviews Are In: Candelabra a 'Slam-Dunk'
Did you watch the Liberace movie? Was it as gay as everyone said it was going to be?
 Brandon Voss
          
          May 28, 2013
          
        
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The fake reviews are in for Behind the Candelabra, the Liberace biopic with Michael Douglas and Matt Damon. In a new video for Funny or Die, web comic Bryan Safi skewers the fact that all the advanced buzz on the HBO flick, which premiered Sunday, had been about the man-on-man action.
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