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  • Scott Thorson: How Liberace Protected His ‘Big Secret’ in the Homophobic ’50s

    By Scott Thorson | May 23, 2013 @ 9:58 AM

    Guest blog: Dates with Mae West, Susan Hayward, Judy Garland and Sonja Henie helped Liberace cover up his preference for men, but it was a London lawsuit that cleared my ex in the public's eye

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Scott Thorson, born in 1958, became famous for his relationship with and lawsuit against the late entertainer Liberace and his testimony against gangster Eddie Nash. A movie drama based on Thorson's book "Behind the Candelabra: My Life With Liberace" will air on HBO on May 26, 2013. It features Matt Damon as Thorson and Michael Douglas as Liberace. It is the first movie on the Thorson-Liberace relationship and its aftermath since the 1988 Canada-U.S. made-for-TV movie "Liberace: Behind the Music," where Thorson was portrayed by Michael Dolan. "Behind the Candelabra" is directed by Steven Soderbergh from a screenplay by Richard LaGravenese with music by Academy-Award-winning composer Marvin Hamlisch.

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