99 Words About … The excesses of HBO’s Liberace movie
“It’s so hard to explain,” Scott Thorson (Matt Damon) tells an attorney about his relationship with Liberace (Michael Douglas) in “Behind the Candelabra” (9 p.m. Sunday, HBO).
Ya think?
The eye-opening, head-shaking tell-all shows the Vegas legend paying for extensive plastic surgery — from a pill-pusher giddily portrayed by Rob Lowe — so he and his much younger lover will look more alike.
Then he tries to adopt him.
While sharing his bed.
Other than that, Steven Soderbergh’s flashily entertaining drama is mostly just another tale of love done in by sex, drugs and the exact opposite of rock ’n’ roll.
— CHRISTOPHER LAWRENCE