Soderbergh does Liberace??
Soderbergh does Liberace??
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#1Soderbergh does Liberace??
Posted: 9/11/08 at 10:40am
Curious! From Nerve.com:
Steven Soderbergh prides himself on being an eclectic filmmaker and you can’t get much more eclectic than following up a biopic of Che Guevara with one of Liberace. Actually, the Liberace project won’t be next on Soderbergh’s agenda – that would be The Girlfriend Experience for Mark Cuban’s HDNet – but it’s definitely on the back burner. Variety reports “Soderbergh is in discussions with Matt Damon to play Scott Thorson, who sued Liberace in 1982 for $113 million in palimony, claiming he was the entertainer’s companion for five years. Even though Liberace never wavered from career-long denials that he was gay, Thorson reportedly settled for $95,000 in 1986.” And who will play the flamboyant entertainer? Would you believe…Michael Douglas?
#2re: Soderbergh does Liberace??
Posted: 9/11/08 at 10:43am
Your thread title gave me pause, BB!
Ugh. Remember those dueling TV bio-pics on Liberace? One was with Victor Garber, and I can't remember who was in the other one. I think they actually aired the same week (or close to it!).
We need this like we need a feature film on Amy Fisher.
...especially if it's going to focus mostly on the "scandalous" palimony suit.
Boring!
And that casting is seriously off.
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Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#2re: Soderbergh does Liberace??
Posted: 9/11/08 at 10:51amWouldn't Wayne Newton be a hoot?
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#3re: Soderbergh does Liberace??
Posted: 9/11/08 at 11:12am
I think it was Andy Robinson in the other Liberace TV movie.
Just what we need, a biopic of Liberace, a self-hating closeted gay man who became a national joke before and after dying of AIDS. Directed by a straight man, yet, and starring Michael Douglas.
Feh. I'll be missing that one.
#4re: Soderbergh does Liberace??
Posted: 9/11/08 at 12:12pm
...unless they do it as a B&W musical.
Then I'm SO there!
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Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#5re: Soderbergh does Liberace??
Posted: 9/11/08 at 12:14pmBest, it'd make a great subject for Guy Maddin.
#6re: Soderbergh does Liberace??
Posted: 9/11/08 at 12:29pmAbsolutely! With music and lyrics by Tom Waits, Stephen Sondheim, David Byrne and the Sugar Hill Gang.
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#7re: Soderbergh does Liberace??
Posted: 9/12/08 at 1:20pmAren't both Michael Douglas and Matt Damon WAY too old to play these guys?
JohnBoy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/06
#8re: Soderbergh does Liberace??
Posted: 9/12/08 at 1:47pmThey are both way to old. Besides, doesn Hollywood believe there's a market for this?
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#9re: Soderbergh does Liberace??
Posted: 9/12/08 at 1:50pmSoderbergh doesn't exactly go by what the market wants. His latest film is a 4 hour long biopic about Che Guevara, after all.
#10re: Soderbergh does Liberace??
Posted: 9/12/08 at 2:48pm
OK, I just LOVE this number between Liberace and Minnie PEarl. The two are just FABULOUS!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77sheAVgpeo
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