There would be no candelabra if it wasn't for Irving Fields. The world-class pianist, who at age 97 plays five nights a week at a midtown restaurant, helped a virtually unknown Liberace land his first TV gig more than 60 years ago. Recalls Fields, “Lee
On the cusp of watching Michael Douglas and Matt Damon get it on doggie-style (or so we hear) as the late Liberace and his former lover, Scott Thorson, in Behind the Candelabra, it seems shocking — laughable, even — that
The powder-blue suit with silver embroidery was Liberace's idea of what a chauffeur would wear, especially to drive a Rolls-Royce ferrying his $300,000 white virgin fox coat, lined with $100,000 worth of Austrian crystals, and with a 16-foot cape
There would be no candelabra if it wasn't for Irving Fields. The world-class pianist, who at age 97 plays five nights a week at a midtown restaurant, helped a virtually unknown Liberace land his first TV gig more than 60 years ago. Recalls Fields, “Lee
In anticipation of Michael Douglas's turn as the flamboyant pianist in HBO's Behind the Candelabra, I went down a rabbit hole of clips of Liberace's performances from the 1940s through the '80s. Though Liberace's lover and companion Scott Thorson makes
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