04048cam a2200361 4500 280846860 TxAuBib 20161216120000.0 ||||||s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781618030955 1618030957 B00CPURWCW Amazon a7593038-785d-4a3b-9da5-dc0e7c4ac07b OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1309693 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Thorson, Scott. Behind the Candelabra [Libby eBook] : My Life With Liberace. Tantor eBooks, 2013. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 623kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p>In this unusually frank book Scott Thorson, Liberace's longtime lover, tells all: the good, the bad, and the ugly truths about the legendary entertainer who went to outrageous extremes to prevent public knowledge of his homosexuality.</p> <p>Liberace's unhappy childhood, dominated by a mother determined to force him into a concert career, serves as the prologue for a story that goes on to detail Liberace's early appearances in honky-tonks, his move to New York to seek fame, and, finally, his first booking in Las Vegas, where he was courted by the Mafia.</p> <p>As Thorson attests, such successes provide a bright counterpoint to a darker tale of a man hungry for power, given to every excess. Liberace's credo—"too much of a good thing is wonderful"—is reflected here in his acquisition of new lovers, luxurious homes, a large collection of pornography, and a total of twenty-six house dogs. Behind the Candelabra above all explores the fundamentally tender love affair between Liberace and Thorson—whom Liberace sent to his own plastic surgeon to have his face remodeled in Liberace's own image!</p> <p>This fast-paced story, sprinkled with anecdotes about famous entertainers such as Michael Jackson and Shirley MacLaine, ends with an intimate look at Liberace's final days as he lay dying of AIDS—and his deathbed reconciliation with Thorson. Thorson's story will also appear in the upcoming biopic of the same name starring award-winning actors Michael Douglas and Matt Damon.</p>. HTML:<p>June 3, 1988<br /> In 1977, the 18-year-old Thorson became ``lover, friend and confidant'' of the 57-year-old Liberace, a relationship that would continue until 1982. Here, with Thorleifson (coauthor of John Wayne) he relates the sorry, seamy tale of his ``callous'' eviction from the performer's Las Vegas penthouse in favor of a teenager and the public brouhaha that followed when he filed a palimony suit. The book is uncomfortably candid with revelations about ``Lee''who was driven to experience sexual variety with younger males, even as he continued to publicly deny his homosexualityand Thorson's protestations that he was unfairly branded a street hustler by the tabloid press. Although the acrimonious suit was ultimately settled (the provisions were kept secret), Thorson notes that he has written this memoir because ``I need the money.'' His bitterness at Liberace, who died of AIDS in 1987, lessens at the end of the book, and with back-handed gratitude he concludes: ``Leaving Lee . . . may have saved my life.'' Photos.</p>. Publisher's Weekly. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2016-12-16 23:00:02. Thorleifson, Alex. http://lonestardigitalibrary.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=a7593038-785d-4a3b-9da5-dc0e7c4ac07b https://samples.overdrive.com/behind-the-candelabra?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/behind-the-candelabra?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/behind-the-candelabra?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) BSBPL