“I like Bling Lee/ I like Bling Lee/ This closet queen who liked to preen/Was oh so totally queer/

He would tickle the ivories on his Steinways/ Then tickle his boys who became his toys/And not wish his brother George was here!

In BEHIND THE CANDLEABRA (M)/ there’s a bit of acting abracadabra/ with Michael Douglas playing Liberace/mind you both liked to romance the stone.

Matt Damon plays bi in a boofy blokey way/And Scott Bakula is a back door Johnny/Forget I wish my Brother George were here/Debbie Reynolds is playing Mommie Dear!”

…And what about Rob Lowe as the skin tight cosmetician, the plastic fantastic physician whose Botox needs detox! He arrives on the scene after Liberace declares that all he can see when he looks in the mirror is his father. A double howl from the audience as the line is delivered by Michael Douglas, a sort of double entendre, conjuring Kirk as much as Liberace senior!

All under the direction Steven Soderbergh from a script by Richard Lagravenese. Watching this Liberace is easy, though it’s a bit sleazy it has quite a dab hand at sad at the end.