Behind the Candelabra | television film by Soderbergh [2013] | Britannica (original) (raw)

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• • …antidepressants has criminal consequences, and Behind the Candelabra, about a romantic relationship that the entertainer Liberace (Michael Douglas) began with a young man (Damon) in the late 1970s. The latter was produced by and for the cable network HBO, though it was released theatrically outside the United States; Soderbergh won…
• • …Damon in the Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra.
• • (Michael Douglas) in Soderbergh’s biopic Behind the Candelabra. He then returned to movies with a string of science-fiction thrillers, playing an ex-convict fighting to leave ravaged Earth in the dystopian Elysium (2013), the head of a corporation attempting to prove that the universe will eventually collapse in upon itself in…
• • …and starred as Liberace in Behind the Candelabra (2013), a witty account of the entertainer’s private life near the end of his career; Douglas won an Emmy Award for his work on the latter production. He joined Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, and Kevin Kline in the buddy comedy Last…
• • …mother; and in the movie Behind the Candelabra (2013), as the mother of the entertainer Liberace. In 2001 she costarred with Shirley MacLaine, Joan Collins, and Elizabeth Taylor in the TV movie These Old Broads. Reynolds continued to perform as a singer in Las Vegas into the 21st century. She…