The Toy Boy’s Tale – Part II of my Liberace post. Published in 1988, Behind the Candelabra, a kiss and tell expose, credits Liberace’s much younger lover Scott Thorson on the cover of my 2013 edition, along ‘with’ (in smaller font) Alex Thorleifson – a celebrity biographer whose previous best-known work was My Life with… Read More »Thorson’s Liberace
On trying to love the flashy, gnashy, piano basher This will shock you, but Liberace was not my cup of peculiar. Frankly, I found his persona slightly repellent as a kid in the 1970s. Maybe it was just rejection of my inner fabulousness, but he reminded me of a sexless,… Read More »Even Liberace’s Smile
Rather than watch the Olympics, and all that noble, serious sporting uplift, I’ve been reading a book about a carny, corny, shameless 1940s-50s American wrestler: Gorgeous George: The Outrageous Bad-Boy Wrestler Who Created American Pop Culture, by John Capouya. My American chum Chris Supermarky recommended it to me, thinking it would… Read More »‘Get Your Filthy Hands Off Me!’ Gorgeous George’s Glamorous Legacy