Behind the Candelabra
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Liberace: I want to be everything to you, Scott. I want to be father, brother, lover, best friend.

Liberace: All of a sudden we're sounding like a gay Lucy and Ricky."Oh, Ricky, you wouldn't fuck me up the ass if you loved me!"
Scott Thorson: Why am I the Lucy?
Liberace: Because I'm the bandleader with the nightclub act.

Liberace: Who the hell do you think you are talking to?

Liberace: I have an eye for new and refreshing talent.
Scott Thorson: You have an eye for new and refreshing dick.

Liberace: I hate my life sometimes, I really do.

Liberace: I love to give the people a good time.

Factual error: At Liberace's funeral, when the priest concludes his prayer, the congregation responds, "And with your Spirit." This response has only been part of the English-language Catholic Mass since 2011. In 1987, the response would have been "And also with you."

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Chosen answer: Michael Douglas was not playing the piano himself. Special effects were used to digitally graft Douglas' head onto the body of Philip Fortenberry, a Julliard-trained pianist who also once played at the now-closed Liberace Museum in Las Vegas.

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