People Magazine reports that Steven Soderbergh has cast the principals in his Liberace biopic: Michael Douglas as Liberace, and for his lover?  MMMMAAATT DAAAAAMON.

“We’ve already done some costume and wardrobe tests on Michael, and they’re very, very, very good.” Soderbergh told a French newspaper at the Deauville Film Festival. “I swear to you, Michael amazed me. He crushed it.”

Damon, Soderbergh said, has agreed to portray Scott Thorson, the assistant/boyfriend whose 1982 palimony suit for $110 million publically outed the entertainer.

Before he died in 1987, Liberace would sue for libel any publication that implied he was gay, including The Daily Mirror, who had to pay him $22,400 for calling him “fruit-flavoured” in 1956*.  My question: when the same guy later gets sued for palimony by his boyfriend and dies of AIDs, shouldn’t his estate have to pay the money back?  Really, this picture should’ve been all the proof they needed:

I’m assuming the giant “S” ring stood for “Scott.”

*full, awesome quote: “…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.”

^{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…