Que(e)ri: It Was an Imprsively Gay Cann, But 'Behd The Canlabra' End Up Havg Ltle To Do Wh That
Contents:
- HBO’S ‘BEHD THE CANLABRA’ LOOKS BEYOND GAY PIANIST’S LEGENDARY FLAMBOYANCE
- QUE(E)RI: IT WAS AN IMPRSIVELY GAY CANN, BUT ‘BEHD THE CANLABRA’ END UP HAVG LTLE TO DO WH THAT
HBO’S ‘BEHD THE CANLABRA’ LOOKS BEYOND GAY PIANIST’S LEGENDARY FLAMBOYANCE
Ultimately Thorson su Liberace and the se mak the tabloids, although Liberace never adms to beg gay. Dpe his outrageons, Liberace kept his gay affairs private.
Stt is utterly shocked Las Vegas when a iend tells him no one knows Liberace is gay; the entertaer keeps a heterosexual appearance wh beards such as figure skater Sonja Henie. One askg whether the film uld have succeed as much as did if featured two men stead of two women, and the other suggtg s Palme w was a polilly motivated rponse to the anti-gay prottg simultaneoly occurrg Paris (where 150, 000+ people were prottg the recent legalizatn of same-sex marriage France). ” Clearly much lighter (and ls sexy) than the aforementned, ’s based on Gallienne’s own upbrgg, growg up as a female-intified boy who everyone thks is gay (Screen lled “somethg of a one-man La Cage x Foll”).
So after 11 days of readg awe about this tr of French films, anticipatg they will all be among the first films I n to when they likely have their North Amerin premier at TIFF this fall, I fally got to have my own ltle dose of Cann Film Ftival’s gay ntent: Steven Sorbergh’s “Behd The Canlabra, ” the only LGBT film that screened at Cann that didn’t seem to w an award, and the only one I n now speak hontly about. They meet 1977, when Bob Black (Stt Bakula) fds the young Thorson at a gay bar and brgs him to one of Liberace’s shows. bottom, greed, ternalized homophobia, dg addictn, closetg, daddy.
QUE(E)RI: IT WAS AN IMPRSIVELY GAY CANN, BUT ‘BEHD THE CANLABRA’ END UP HAVG LTLE TO DO WH THAT
The film is also not at all toned down terms of the gay ntent.
I would have que shocked to fd myself offend by the film tong down the gay. “I had a great time wrg the script, ” says screenwrer Richard LaGravene, “to tell the story of a man who hid his homosexualy and how even wh that time perd he managed to have this real relatnship, this real love wh this young man, spe of all that.
It really mak you wonr how well Liberace hid his homosexualy when the words of Sophia Petrillo, “The man’s as gay as a pic-a-nic basket!