| 词条 | Liberace: Behind the Music | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| show_name = Liberace: Behind the Music | image = LiberaceBehindtheMusic.jpg | image_size = | image_alt = | caption = DVD cover | genre = Biography Drama Music | writer = Gavin Lambert | director = David Greene | starring = Victor Garber Saul Rubinek Michael Dolan Maureen Stapleton | music = Hagood Hardy | country = Canada United States | language = English | producer = Murray Shostak | executive_producer = Linda Yellen Nancy Bein | location = Montreal | editor = Yves Langlois | cinematography = René Verzier | runtime = 97 minutes | company = The Kushner-Locke Company | distributor = CBS | budget = | network = CBS | picture_format = Color | audio_format = Stereo | first_aired = {{Start date|1988|10|09}} | website = }} Liberace: Behind the Music is a 1988 American-Canadian made-for-television biographical film. It is an "unofficial" biopic drama on the life and death of Władziu Valentino Liberace, who went from a humble working-class background to become a famous American pianist and vocalist. Known as "Liberace", he became the highest paid entertainer in the world, while embracing a lifestyle of flamboyant excess. The film first aired less than two years after his death, in the United States, as a CBS Sunday Movie. DescriptionThe modest-length production (97 minutes) traces Liberace's life, as played by Canadian actor Victor Garber, from his humble beginnings in a Milwaukee suburb, through his major life highs and lows, culminating with the highly publicized palimony lawsuit filed against him by his former limo driver and alleged live-in boyfriend of five years, Scott Thorson (played by Michael Dolan), and his failing health, ending with his death at age 67 on February 4, 1987, from AIDS complications. The film has been noted {{by whom|date=May 2013}} for the early casting appearance of the then 20-year-old Shawn Levy as Glenn, a post-Thorson acquaintance of Liberace's through the pianist's final days. The movie was directed by Emmy Award-winning David Greene. Credit for technical advisor is given to long-time Liberace friend and agent Seymour Heller (portrayed in the film by Saul Rubinek). Film clips from Liberace's actual stage appearances are interspersed in the storyline. Liberace: Behind the Music was broadcast one week after the ABC biopic production Liberace (1988), starring Andrew Robinson in the lead, and with a script holding to a point of view that Liberace was heterosexual. Liberace: Behind the Music, however, acknowledged his homosexuality. PlotWladiziu Valentino Liberace, a gifted classical pianist fueled by poverty, was already playing with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the age of 17. Through a variety of his highs and lows, chaptered in TV-style format, Liberace's life from his early years through his death are chronicled such as his career highs and lows and the struggle with keeping his sexuality hidden from the public. Cast
Home mediaLiberace: Behind the Music is available on DVD from Kushner-Locke, distributed through Tango Entertainment. ReferencesSee also
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8 : 1988 television films|1980s LGBT-related films|CBS network films|American films|Biographical films about musicians|Cultural depictions of Liberace|Cultural depictions of Elvis Presley|Films directed by David Greene |
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