Behind the Candelabra: My Life with Liberace

Behind the Candelabra: My Life with Liberace is a memoir by Scott Thorson and Alex Thorleifson, published in 1988 by Dutton, and reissued in 2013. In 2009, it was reported that Thorson was working on a sequel, however as of 2019 this has not materialized.[1]

For the film adaptation, see Behind the Candelabra.

Behind the Candelabra: My Life with Liberace
AuthorScott Thorson
Alex Thorleifson
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreMemoir
PublisherDutton
Publication date
June 22, 1988
Media typePrint

Plot

Scott Thorson recounts his relationship with the entertainer and pianist Liberace.[2]

Film adaptation

The memoir was adapted for a television film, Behind the Candelabra, directed by Steven Soderbergh, starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon, and premiered on HBO on May 26, 2013.[3][4]

gollark: Incredible.
gollark: Even Codex could when I gave it the first 170 lines of osmarkslisp™, and it's a 170-billion-parameter language model.
gollark: A smart person will just infer it.
gollark: This is silly. Never explain yourself in code.
gollark: Modern compression would let me get thumbnail-type things down to extremely small sizes (smaller than the various bits of JS running comments and achievements and such), I just haven't gotten the art.

See also
  • "Interview with Scott Thorson (Transcript)". Larry King Live. CNN. August 12, 2002. Retrieved December 29, 2012.

References
  1. Jacobs, Rodger (May 28, 2009). "Depression 2.0: Sunday in Kerouac Alley". PopMatters.
  2. Segal, David (May 10, 2013). "The Boy Toy's Story". The New York Times.
  3. "Behind the Candelabra: The Secret Life of Liberace". The New York Times. 2013. Archived from the original on October 15, 2011.
  4. EW staff (March 6, 2013). "This week's cover: Matt Damon and Michael Douglas go 'Behind the Candelabra' in HBO's Liberace biopic". Entertainment Weekly.
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