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, th
Traces the life and career of the popular entertainer from his Midwestern childhood to his success as an entertainer, and discusses his secret homosexuality and death from AIDS.
Featuring behind-the-scenes stories from some of his most trusted couturiers and friends, this beautiful tribute to the internationally celebrated star known for his music and his flamboyant fashion d
In this unusually frank book Scott Thorson tells all: the good, the bad, and the ugly truths about a legendary entertainer who went to outrageous extremes to prevent public knowledge of his homosexual
Hotel Theory is two books in one: a meditation on the meaning of hotels, and a dime novel (Hotel Women) featuring Lana Turner and Liberace. Typical of Wayne Koestenbaum’s invigoratingly inventi
Elvis Meets Liberace, Shecky, and Vampira!Where? In Las Vegas, of course!Just about every subject of lingering cult fascination, from James Bond and Bela Lugosi to Lili St. Cyr and Pussycat” Tura Sata
Shakespeare has made the big time. No less than the Beatles or Liberace, Elvis Presley or Mick Jagger, Shakespeare is big-time in the idiomatic sense of cultural success and widespread notoriety. Not