Leberaci N Personal
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The Wonderful Private World Of Liberace
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Author : Liberace
language : en
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Release Date : 2003
The Wonderful Private World Of Liberace written by Liberace and has been published by Turner Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Pianists categories.
For decades, Liberace was known for his music, candelabra, charisma, diamonds and dazzle. Over the years Liberace acquired an astounding array of prestigious awards, including: Instrumentalist of the Year, Best Dressed Entertainer and Entertainer of the Year. He also earned two Emmy Awards, six gold albums, two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's highest paid musician and pianist. Best of all, he was known and loved throughout the world as Mr. Showmanship."" Relive The Wonderful Private World of Liberace in the reprinting of his fourth publication. When I started this book, I couldn't keep help wondering if I was doing it the right way. After all, it was so very different from the other books. One afternoon, I ran into Shirley MacLaine in a florist shop in Malibu. She'd never seen my Malibu place, so I invited her over. While we were having a drink, I discovered she had just completed her book Dancing in the Light. ""What a coincidence,"" I said. ""I'm just starting to write my fourth book."" She described a private place she had up in Washington, where she liked to sit outside, particularly when it was raining. She would sit under an umbrella and jot down the material in longhand. The solace and quietude of the place were very inspiring to writing in this personal style. I told here I was doing mine in longhand, as well, just as if I was writing a letter to someone. She smiled encouragingly. ""But that's exactly how you should do it ""So here it is a very personal letter from me to you, sharing an intimate glimpse into The Wonderful Private World of Liberace.""
Liberace
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Author : Michael Feder
language : en
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Release Date : 2007-09-01
Liberace written by Michael Feder and has been published by Harry N. Abrams this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-01 with Art categories.
The late Liberace swings his closet door open in order to coach readers on the fine art of extraordinary dressing. Not only can readers enjoy dazzling photographs of Liberace in the most outrageous of outfits, but they can also punch these photos out to play with the included paper dolls.
Liberace
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Author : Joanne Nilsson
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2024-03-15
Liberace written by Joanne Nilsson and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In the heart of a dazzling yet deceptive 1950s Hollywood, "Liberace" unfolds as an enthralling tale of ambition, secrecy, and the relentless pursuit of fame. This novel transports readers into the opulent world of Wladziu Valentino Liberace, known simply as Liberace, a pianist whose flamboyance and talent captivated millions. Yet beneath the glittering surface lies a labyrinth of personal struggles and societal pressures. The story is set against the backdrop of post-war America, a period marked by rapid cultural shifts and the burgeoning influence of television. Liberace's rise to stardom is meticulously chronicled, from smoke-filled bars to grandiose concert halls, each setting vividly brought to life through rich descriptions that capture the era's essence. The narrative delves deep into the dichotomy between Liberace's public persona and his private life, exploring themes of identity, love, and the cost of fame. At its core, "Liberace" is driven by its complex protagonist-a man defined by his contradictions. Charismatic yet vulnerable, Liberace's journey is one of resilience in the face of adversity. Supporting characters include a cast of industry moguls, fellow performers, and confidants who both aid and challenge him on his path. The antagonist emerges in the form of societal expectations and personal demons that threaten to undermine Liberace's career and sense of self. The plot weaves through triumphs and trials with a palpable tension-Liberace's fight for acceptance in an era rife with homophobia adds depth to his character while highlighting broader social issues. Magical realism subtly infuses the narrative as Liberace's piano performances transcend mere entertainment, becoming transformative experiences for both him and his audience. "Liberace" is more than just a biographical fiction; it is a poignant exploration of the human condition. It speaks to those who dare to dream differently in a world that demands conformity. With its elegant prose and emotional depth, this novel appeals to readers fascinated by historical fiction, music enthusiasts intrigued by one of entertainment's most enigmatic figures, and anyone who appreciates stories about overcoming adversity. Through "Liberace," readers are invited not only to witness the spectacle of one man's extraordinary life but also to reflect on their own battles with authenticity in an often-unforgiving society. This book stands as a testament to the enduring power of art over adversity-a dazzling performance captured in words.
Rocking The Closet
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Author : Vincent L Stephens
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2019-10-14
Rocking The Closet written by Vincent L Stephens and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-14 with Music categories.
The all-embracing, "whaddya got?" nature of rebellion in Fifties America included pop music's unlikely challenge to entrenched notions of masculinity. Within that upheaval, four prominent artists dared to behave in ways that let the public assume—but not see—their queerness. That these artists cultivated ambiguous sexual personas often reflected an understandable fear, but also a struggle to fulfill personal and professional expectations.Vincent L. Stephens confronts notions of the closet—both coming out and staying in—by analyzing the careers of Liberace, Johnny Mathis, Johnnie Ray, and Little Richard. Appealing to audiences hungry for novelty and exoticism, the four pop icons used performance and queering techniques that ran the gamut. Liberace's flamboyance shared a spectrum with Mathis's intimate sensitivity while Ray's overwrought displays as "Mr. Emotion" seemed worlds apart from Little Richard's raise-the-roof joyousness. As Stephens shows, the quartet not only thrived in an era of gray flannel manhood, they pioneered the ways generations of later musicians would consciously adopt sexual mystery as an appealing and proven route to success.
Liberace Extravaganza
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Author : Connie Furr Soloman
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2013-04-09
Liberace Extravaganza written by Connie Furr Soloman and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Known for his spectacular performances, the magnificent Wladziu Valentino Liberace was a world-renowned star in the entertainment industry for more than four decades, and his dazzling, often outrageous costumes are what made him most memorable. In Liberace Extravaganza! the entertainer's sequined, bejeweled, and rhinestone-studded outfits, as well as his extravagant collection of furs, feather capes, sparkling bow ties, and custom-made shoes are exhibited in book form for the very first time. These mesmerizing costumes grew from Liberace's humble beginnings when, as a young man, he would perform in his brother's hand-me-downs. From there, his suits, worth as much as twenty-four thousand dollars, featured layers of silk and satin ruffles, Swarovski crystal rhinestones, and fourteen-karat white-gold, diamond-encrusted buttons, culminating in his "electric" costumes with four thousand light bulbs weighing more than twenty-five pounds. Michael Travis, Liberace's principal designer, has written the foreword for this breathtaking volume. Jim Lapidus, another of Liberace's designers, furrier Anna Nateece, and Ray Arnett, his producer, have contributed original sketches used to design Liberace's costumes. The result is a book that is one of a kind: a celebration of the legendary performer and a visual feast of the most extraordinary costumes ever created. With more than 260 full-color photographs
Liberace
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Author : Darden Asbury Pyron
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2013-04-26
Liberace written by Darden Asbury Pyron and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-26 with Social Science categories.
More people watched his nationally syndicated television show between 1953 and 1955 than followed I Love Lucy. Even a decade after his death, the attendance records he set at Madison Square Garden, the Hollywood Bowl, and Radio City Music Hall still stand. Arguably the most popular entertainer of the twentieth century, this very public figure nonetheless kept more than a few secrets. Darden Asbury Pyron, author of the acclaimed and bestselling Southern Daughter: The Life of Margaret Mitchell, leads us through the life of America's foremost showman with his fresh, provocative, and definitive portrait of Liberace, an American boy. Liberace's career follows the trajectory of the classic American dream. Born in the Midwest to Polish-Italian immigrant parents, he was a child prodigy who, by the age of twenty, had performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Abandoning the concert stage for the lucrative and glittery world of nightclubs, celebrities, and television, Liberace became America's most popular entertainer. While wildly successful and good natured outwardly, Liberace, Pyron reveals, was a complicated man whose political, social, and religious conservativism existed side-by-side with a lifetime of secretive homosexuality. Even so, his swishy persona belied an inner life of ferocious aggression and ambition. Pyron relates this private man to his public persona and places this remarkable life in the rapidly changing cultural landscape of twentieth-century America. Pyron presents Liberace's life as a metaphor, for both good and ill, of American culture, with its shopping malls and insatiable hunger for celebrity. In this fascinating biography, Pyron complicates and celebrates our image of the man for whom the streets were paved with gold lamé. "An entertaining and rewarding biography of the pianist and entertainer whose fans' adoration was equaled only by his critics' loathing. . . . [Pyron] persuasively argues that Liberace, thoroughly and rigorously trained, was a genuine musician as well as a brilliant showman. . . . [A]n immensely entertaining story that should be fascinating and pleasurable to anyone with an interest in American popular culture."—Kirkus Reviews "This is a wonderful book, what biography ought to be and so seldom is."—Kathryn Hughes, Daily Telegraph "[A]bsorbing and insightful. . . . Pyron's interests are far-ranging and illuminating-from the influence of a Roman Catholic sensibility on Liberace and gay culture to the aesthetics of television and the social importance of self-improvement books in the 1950s. Finally, he achieves what many readers might consider impossible: a persuasive case for Liberace's life and times as the embodiment of an important cultural moment."—Publishers Weekly "Liberace, coming on top of his amazing life of Margaret Mitchell, Southern Daughter, puts Darden Pyron in the very first rank of American biographers. His books are as exciting as the lives of his subjects."—Tom Wolfe "Fascinating, thoughtful, exhaustive, and well-written, this book will serve as the standard biography of a complex icon of American popular culture."—Library Journal
The Dark Side Of Liberace
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Author : Spero Pastos
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2016-02-18
The Dark Side Of Liberace written by Spero Pastos and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
During Liberaces trial in the late fifties, Lee, as he was familiarly called, was critically reviewed by Cassandra (a former colonel in the British army) in his daily column in Londons Daily Mirror. Cassandra wrote, He is the summit of sex, the pinnacle of masculine, feminine, and neuter. Everything that he, she, and it can ever want. This deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavored, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother love has had the biggest reception and impact on London since Charlie Chaplin arrived at the same station! At the same time, Liberace had recently completed his ABC seven-year contract that had gone viral via international and national television, but he recognized a new and very popular confidential magazine that was beginning to create unimaginable curiosity in 1950s America, suggesting that he was homosexual. Liberace died in February of 1987, but the story of his estate was not settled until long after. His attorney, Joel Strote, managed to stuff the estate for his own, and that forced a very ugly trial both between the Liberace family both in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, where Liberace made his home for tax benefits. The outcomes of the trials were in Strotes favor, though Ida Mae Liberace, Liberaces niece, claimed that there were hundreds of millions of dollars in the estate secreted in an account in Switzerland. Liberaces burial was in Forest Lawn overlooking Warner Brothers Studio and where Liberace filmed his disastrous film during the 1950s entitled Sincerely Yours.
Liberace 173 Success Facts Everything You Need To Know About Liberace
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Author : Lois Cross
language : en
Publisher: Emereo Publishing
Release Date : 2014-08-02
Liberace 173 Success Facts Everything You Need To Know About Liberace written by Lois Cross and has been published by Emereo Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
It's a brand new Liberace world. 'W adziu Valentino Liberace' (May 16, 1919 - February 4, 1987), mononymously recognized like 'Liberace', was an American piano player and singer. This book is your ultimate resource for Liberace. Here you will find the most up-to-date 173 Success Facts, Information, and much more. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Liberace's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Liberace Museum - Current status, Liberace - Lawsuits and homosexuality, The Kraft Music Hall - Television, Liberace - Later years and death, Behind the Candelabra - Plot, Duncan Sisters - Later years, Ambassador Hotel (Los Angeles) - Background, Circle Star Theater - Performers, Sincerely Yours (film) - Later years and death, The Loved One (film), The Mike Douglas Show - Guest co-hosts, Liberace - Cooking, Steve Allen - Later career, William Connor, A Song to Remember - Legacy, 1987 in music - Deaths, Diana Dors - US career, The Hollywood Palace - 1967, Boze Hadleigh - Selected (and selective) reviews, Parkinson (TV series) - Guests, Liberace - Music books, Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer - Biography, Michael Dolan - Acting career, Liberace - Early life, Liberace: Behind the Music, Bluthner - Notable Bluthner artists, 1980s - Additional significant world-wide events, Ocean's Eleven (2001 film) - Music, Liberace - Later television work, The Amazing Criswell - Private life, Battle of the Network Reality Stars - Reunion, Lizabeth Scott - Rushmore's story, Jack Paar - Prime time, Howard Rushmore - 1957 mistrial, I Love the '70s (U.S. TV series) - 1975, Iowa State Fair - Concerts, Imperial Records - Imperial Records artists (1947-1970), Johnny Rodgers (singer) - Musical theatre projects, and much more...
Liberace
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Author : Isabella Alston
language : en
Publisher: TAJ Books International
Release Date : 2014-05-19
Liberace written by Isabella Alston and has been published by TAJ Books International this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
When Liberace was just seven years old, he memorized the full 17-page score of MendelssohnÕsÒMidsummer NightÕs DreamÓ in one day. No matter your opinion of LiberaceÕs ostentatious and flamboyant style, his talent on the piano is unarguable. He learned the entertainment business as a teenager playing honky tonks and bars, moving after high school graduation to New York City, Òthe city that never sleeps.Ó He found moderate success there, but soon moved to California, staying only a year before returning to The Big Apple. To stand out in an extremely competitive market, Liberace practiced 12 hours a day and originated his unique style, combining the classic works, shortened to appeal to a mass audience, with the popular tunes of the day. It was at this time, in the early 1940s, that he plopped the infamous candelabra on his grand piano. The lavish, over-the-top costumes would come later. Soon, Las Vegas beckoned and Liberace did not look the other way. From 1945 until the end of his life in 1987, Liberace called Las Vegas homeÑalong with his mulitple other homes, all of which he decorated in the most lavish (some would say completely kitsch) way imaginable. Liberace was a force to be reckoned with, a very talented and original artist.
Aging Heroes
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Author : Norma Jones
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2015-05-06
Aging Heroes written by Norma Jones and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-06 with Performing Arts categories.
Despite the increasing number and variety of older characters appearing in film, television, comics, and other popular culture, much of the understanding of these figures has been limited to outdated stereotypes of aging. These include depictions of frailty, resistance to modern life, and mortality. More importantly, these stereotypes influence the daily lives of aging adults, as well as how younger generations perceive and interact with older individuals. In light of our graying population and the growing diversity of portrayals of older characters in popular culture, it is important to examine how we understand aging. In Aging Heroes: Growing Old in Popular Culture, Norma Jones and Bob Batchelor present a collection of essays that address the increasing presence of characters that simultaneously manifest and challenge the accepted stereotypes of aging. The contributors to this volume explore representations in television programs, comic books, theater, and other forms of media. The chapters include examinations of aging male and female actors who take on leading roles in such movies as Gran Torino, Grudge Match, Escape Plan, Space Cowboys, Taken,and The Big Lebowski as well as TheExpendables, Red,and X-Men franchises. Other chapters address perceptions of masculinity, sexuality, gender, and race as manifested by such cultural icons as Superman, Wonder Woman, Danny Trejo, Helen Mirren, Betty White, Liberace, and Tyler Perry’s Madea. With multi-disciplinary and accessible essays that encompass the expanding spectrum of aging and related stereotypes, this book offers a broader range of new ways to understand, perceive, and think about aging. Aging Heroes will be of interest to scholars of film, television, gender studies, women’s studies, sociology, aging studies, and media studies, as well as to general readers.