Fur is murder. And yet, fab-u-looouusss…
Director Steven Soderbergh is developing a biopic about masculine pianist and pianist lover Liberace, and word is he wants Michael Douglas, with whom he last worked in Traffic, to play the lead.
The story would focus on the court case brought against Liberace in 1982 by Scott Thorsen, who claimed $113m in palimony saying that he had been the pianist’s companion for five years. Even though Liberace always denied being gay, he settled out of court for $95,000 in 1986, before his death in 1987 from AIDS at the age of 67. [Empire]
Hahahaha, he said “pianist’s companion”, hahahahaha! Oh my gosh, I can’t catch my breath…
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Why is there a picture of Ellen Degeneres next to Liberace?
Wait, he wanted $113 million and only got $95,000? I haven’t seen a difference in numbers that skewed since Michael Douglas got married.
Liberace’s denails of being gay hold about as much water as Lindsay Lohan’s denails of being straight. Say what they want, we all know they both love dick.
“I gave Liberace AIDS, and all I got was $95,000 and this lousy T-shirt.”
Playing Liberace is what my male babysitter used to call it. Maybe it was because of the candles he used.
Thorsen went from $113M to $95,000? “Settled”, indeed. And probably also wound up dying of AIDS. I think he shoulda held out for a little more, for that.
It took me a couple minutes to formulate that last comment and I see you already covered all those bases so GODDAMMIT I’m going back to work now.
Oops. Meant this link instead:
http://humanderthal.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/554liberace-posters2.jpg
Looks like Douglas has the leather face down pat.
Was Liberace a Wampa mohel on Hoth??? GAY’CHA!
Is that the fur coat from Ghostbusters 2?
i thought that fur coat might be something ‘the mighty one’ would find…attractive? not to WEAR, as such, but for some BTK-action, for sure…anyone else?
guys?
or, what’s that fetish where people dress up as mascots or
bunnies and shit?…’furries’?
I don’t know if Liberace truly was gay or not. All I know is that once he started playing sharps and flats, he never went back.
I’m not saying Liberace was a flamer, but he used a sapphire for a butt plug.
Liberace practiced on the piano so much that his trombone got a little rusty.
He’s not saying Liberace was a flamer, but he used Amy’s Frozen Veggie Burritos (instead of Hot Pockets) for a fifi.
I just read Alice Cooper’s autobiography, “Golf Monster”, and he said that he did not believe Liberace was really gay. Then again, we’re talking about a dude named “Alice” here.
I’m not saying Liberace was gay, but that outfit was made primarily out of his personal gerbil collection.
Donk-No, the coat is clearly made out of hacked Wampa foreskins…rendering His joke about mohels funny.
Liberace felt ripped off when his vagina costume didn’t win first prize for scariest creature at the gay Halloween party.
“I gave Liberace AIDS, and all I got was $95,000 and this lousy T-Cell count.”
Fixed, Robo.
Fek, you’re right. gerbil joke rescinded.
Hahaha, a dude named Alice? And we’re calling Liberace gay!
*looks around nervously, puts away piano music*
Stone, just for the record, He finds that humorous.
The reason he came down to $95,000 was that in that five years they spent together, he had learned to enjoy it when Liberace lowballed him.
Thanks, my Klingon brotha.
He would have won the case, but the judge was unmoved by the “look at that dude and tell me straight to my face that he doesn’t fuck guys” gambit.
I think gambit is an under used word. Thanks, Donk.
I’d like to pit Liberace in a fight to the death against a wax sculpture of himself.
And then beat off to it.
Well, nePoo, I got tired of waiting for Lance to post a story about X-Men Origins.
For the record, wearing the largest, pink, ferret fur coat ever made, does not make you gay…unless you wear it in autumn, because everybody knows that fall is the season for “earth tones”.
*cough*
Most seniors fade with time, but Liberace sure-as-fuck got brighter.
If you punch Liberace’s corpse square in the forehead, his mouth opens and dispenses Mardi Gras beads.
If Liberace clicks his heels three times, he wakes back up, 13-years-old and in his Scout Master’s tent.
$95K? That works out to about $3/beej.
Since Michael Douglas is about as subtle as rape, I can’t wait to see him play Liberace. “HI, LIBERACE HERE, SOMEBODY GIVE ME A DICK TO SUCK!”
Is it safe to assume he was some sort of beastmaster and those ferrets are alive and well, just well choreographed? Maybe in the next pic they’re depicting paisleys or something.
“SERIOUSLY! YOU SMELL LIKE PUSSY…I GUESS”
$3 for a beej? Where’s my DeLorean?!?!
AIDS didn’t kill Liberace…it was the eight-fucking-tons of fake fur that he tried to wear that morning.
Paul Lynde calls Liberace a flamer. In hell.
sometimes when I remember Liberace, I pour a little confetti out of my 40 on the floor.
AIDS didn’t kill Liberace…it was Elton John kinking his life support.
I wish my brother Boy George was here.
Heather Mills thinks Scott Thorsen is a sucker.
Isn’t a pianists companion just a ball?
Liberace originally came up with the “Got Milk?” add campaign in San Francisco in the seventies.
I always just assumed Liberace evolved Paul Shaffer.
into Paul Shaffer. Damn.
I think for Michael Douglas’ next role he should play dead.
I think this post is missing the HOO BOY THAT’S GAY tag.
NO no no no no, you misunderstood. It’s supposed to say Michael Douglas wants to LAY liberace!
New Up!
This post is gayer than chodin using the words “Liberace,” “Elton John,” and “kink” in the same sentence.
I like his coat made of fuzzy dicks. Very subtle.