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May 21, 2013
Michael Douglas as gay Liberace named his 'greatest performance'

Following its screening at the Cannes Film Festival, Behind the Candelabra, the gay Liberace biopic has received nothing but praise

Michael Douglas performance as Liberace is being named is greatest ever perforamance.

Douglas, who stars in Behind The Candelabra with fellow Hollywood actor Matt Damon, is being applauded by the critics.

The Telegraph's Robbie Collin regards Michael Douglas’ extraordinary portrayal of Liberace as 'one of the greatest performance the actor has ever given.'

May 12, 2013
Liberace's former boyfriend will miss the upcoming HBO movie because he's presently in jail

Liberace's former lover Scott Thorson talks about their relationship while he faces prison for burglary and identity theft

The man whose book is the basis for the upcoming HBO film on entertainer Liberace will not be able to watch it. His prison doesn't have the channel.

Scott Thorson, Liberace's ex-lover, has been in a Nevada jail since this past February. He is charged with buying a computer and cell phone with a credit card that wasn't his. Last Wednesday (8 May) he pleaded guilty and asked to be placed in a rehabilitation program. Punishment could range from probation to 2 to 30 years in prison.

April 8, 2013
Matt Damon and Michael Douglas seen in bed in new trailer for Behind the Candelabra

Stars do not hold back in gay love story about Liberace to air on HBO

In all of the publicity so far leading up to the May 26 premiere of Behind the Candelbra on HBO, straight stars Michael Douglas and Matt Damon have insisted they did not hold back in portraying gay couple Liberace and Scott Thorson.

A new trailer - the first full-length one released so far - was unveiled on Monday (8 April) and indicates that viewers will see the two actors in bed together in intimate scenes and also show Damon emerging slowly from a swimming pool in a speedo.

January 5, 2013
Matt Damon says he took his role as Liberace's lover very seriously

Behind the Candelabra star has never seen a film with such intimacy between two men before

Matt Damon, sitting with co-star Michael Douglas, director Steven Soderbergh and producer Jerry Weintraub, faced a ballroom filled with journalists on Friday (4 January) to answer questions about the upcoming HBO film Behind the Candelabra about Liberace and his young lover Scott Thorson.

When one journalist asked Damon of he considered the film to be a comedy - perhaps because Liberace was such a flamboyant performer - the actor uttered a quick and definitive 'No.'

January 5, 2013
Steven Soderbergh said all Hollywood studios thought Liberace flick was 'too gay' to make

Behind the Candelabra will air on HBO this spring starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon

Oscar winning director Steven Soderbergh said Friday (4 January)  that he was 'stunned' when every single major Hollywood studio passed on making his movie Behind the Candelabra which will air on HBO this spring.

The movie tells the story of the flamboyant star Liberace and his relationship with a much younger man named Scott Thorson.

'They said it was too gay,' Soderbergh told Gay Star News and other outlets during the annual Television Critics Association winter press tour in Pasadena.