Behind The Candelabra
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Behind The Candelabra
"His approach to communicating with people is always to play it in a manner that reflects best on him," says Scott Thorson's adoptive father/manager in a Guardian article about Liberace's longtime lover, whose autobiography inspired Steven Soderbergh's latest movie. What Soderbergh reveals behind Liberace's candelabra -- as well as in the recent SIDE EFFECTS and THE INFORMANT -- is a world where everyone approaches all human interaction by playing it in a manner that reflects best on them, hearing and (as Lee tells his young acolyte at one point) seeing whatever serves their ever-more-desperate needs.
Christina Radish is the Senior Entertainment Reporter at Collider. Having worked at Collider for over a decade (since 2009), her primary focus is on film and television interviews with talent both in front of and behind the camera. She is a theme park fanatic, which has lead to covering various land and ride openings, and a huge music fan, for which she judges life by the time before Pearl Jam and the time after. She is also a member of the Critics Choice Association and the Television Critics Association.
intro: Long before there was a Steven Soderbergh-directed movie about Liberace's life there was a man stroking 88 keys beside his trademark candelabra. The flashy showman came to fame in the 1950s with television's \"The Liberace Show,\" gaining him a fan base who delighted in his costumes and humor.
HBO's \"Behind the Candelabra\" will no doubt touch on private aspects (sexuality and plastic surgery) of the entertainer's life, but over 30 years ago Liberace opened the doors of his Las Vegas home to ABC News' \"20/20\" for an original look behind that candelabra. A few of his treasured dogs made the cut too. Take a look.
He went by one name, but everything else about Liberace came in magnificent multiples: furs and jewels, pianos and candelabras, mansions and pompadours. More than a quarter century after his death from complications of AIDS, Liberace is still an enduring legend of American pop culture. But he's more than that. Bracelet yourself for this revelation: He's one mighty complicated character.
When I was working on the book, I was at my local bank in Miami and talked to a woman about what I was working on. Liberace had been dead for years, but she looked at me with this faraway look and said, "Oh, I always wanted to have a candelabra." Q: What did he think about his style of performance A: He himself talks about how people see art, not just in his performance but art in general, as a way of transcending their own limitations. Art is about introducing you to another kind of world.
Liberace pretty much always had a candelabra on or near his piano while playing, as he was known for his very elaborate and often flamboyant stage presence. As such "Behind the Candelabra" is a play on the phrase "Behind the Scenes", but it refers to his frequent use of candelabras in his performances.
As I described at the beginning, we had two plants to cover the wide shot and worked two booms from the soap suds for the matching close-ups. When Douglas got out of the tub, I was still on my knees, booming from underneath as we were still limited in where we could be. Then we cut to the shot of Damon in the tub with the champagne bottle in the foreground. The huge mirror behind Damon required him to be on a plant mike. Douglas then crossed into the closet to put on his robe where Gerard was waiting with a boom to get his offscreen dialog. 59ce067264