[78-L] Liberace--was: Well EXCUUUUUUSE MEEEEE!!! ^

Ken "Silver Showcase" kenreg at tds.net
Sat Sep 18 01:13:05 PDT 2010


David Breneman wrote:
> --- On Fri, 9/17/10, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> And quotes...
>
>   
>> Sadly, for what survives of Liberace’s reputation, it
>> looks very much as though he borrowed an existing
>> expression. 
>>     
>
> Oh, man, that was always my favorite Liberace quote.
> Now what am I left with?  Just an empty piano-shaped
> swimming pool full of tears...
>   

Another Liberace quote I like was one he made at the Academy Awards.  I 
don't know what year, but he was a presenter.  He told the crowd, (and 
I'm going on memory so this might not be an exact quote), "I made my 
contribution to motion pictures 25 years ago.  (pause)  I stopped making 
them."

-- Ken




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