Thanks to Joe.My.God, it has come to my attention that Nicholas Cage is trying to star in and direct a biopic of Liberace. Loathing of Nic Cage aside, I am indeed titillated. A movie about Liberace could be awesome in terms of sheer cheesiness, terrible, offensive, or so terrible and offensive that it crosses back into awesome gain, like Showgirls.
I hope they do a good job, because I have a soft spot in my heart for the Polish-American Wisconsonite showman. Not only was his whole aesthetic mid-blowing, but my mother confessed to me a few years ago that, as a young thing, she'd had a mad crush on him. I'm pretty sure that's what made me gay. Hooray!
Lee also clearly passed on to me his love of all things exotic animal.
4 comments:
this is a TRIP.
deal with it-i have a copy of 'Liberace...At the Piano', an early lp in it's origional jacket when he was just a young dear thing. My mother LOVED HIM! and loved him for being a wild rhinestone studded gay dude who could play the pi-yaner like a dream.
I just found your comment on my blog, back in the 'fear of the dark' post. thank you for contributing a fantastic point of view. I've seen ya around the place...so bye, y'all; i'm off to backread ya!
XOfn
He's always been my role model for when I'm aiming for tasteful and understated.
Brother George hired me once, to run the foundation, but I turned down the job. It was about a year before Lee died and George was in such denial, "You know those things the papers say about my brother? None of that is true. It's all lies. He's a very religious person."
I wanted the job and it sounded like fun, except having to deal with George!
Love your blog. I will add itto mine. Any chance of getting listed in the Pansy Division?
Ken - get OUT! I can't believe you turned down that job. I mean, George sounds like a piece of work, but OH. MY. GOD.
Then again, some of us prefer a little more sanity in our lives.
Thanks for the link - of course I'll add you. :o)
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