Liberatchi

[gingerflaps]

who was liberatchi (dont know if i've spelt it correct?)

[Celtigra3]

Do you mean Liberace? He was a pianist and entertainer.

[woofgang]

google on Liberace for loads of sites, here's one to start you off

http://www.liberace.com/

[jno]

most famous in Britain because a Daily Mirror article accused him of being gay (not directly but in phrases used in the 1950s); he sued them for libel, swore he wasn't, and won. Liar.

[smudge]

Liberace on the Muppet show - say no more!

Liberace

[tigga]

have you been watching 'little nicky' by any chance ?

[bernardo]

Out of interest, this is what the columnist Cassandra actually wrote:

�He is the summit of sex - the pinnacle of masculine, feminine, and neuter. Everything that he, she and it can ever want. I spoke to sad but kindly men on this newspaper who have met every celebrity coming from America for the past 30 years. They say that this deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavoured, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother love has had the biggest reception and impact on London since Charlie Chaplin arrived at the same station, Waterloo, on September 12,1921. This appalling man - and I use the word appalling in no other than its true sense of terrifying - has hit this country in a way that is as violent as Churchill receiving the cheers on V-E Day. He reeks with emetic language that can only make grown men long for a quiet corner, an aspidistra, a handkerchief, and the old heave-ho. Without doubt, he is the biggest sentimental vomit of all time. Slobbering over his mother, winking at his brother, and counting the cash at every second, this superb piece of calculating candy-floss has an answer for every situation. There must be something wrong with us that our teenagers longing for sex and our middle aged matrons fed up with sex alike should fall for such a sugary mountain of jingling claptrap wrapped up in such a preposterous clown�.

During the libel trial (which Liberace won (he was awarded �8,000 in damages)) he said oin oath that he was not gay. Therefore, even during his last years in the 1980s (when life was generally much more tolerant) he had to continue to deny being gay, because if he had admitted to being gay then he could have been sued for perjury in the 1956 trial.

It was after winning this case that Liberace coined the phrase �I cried all the way to the bank!�

[gingerflaps]

ahh thanx In A Pickle, i've missed you too, i've been working 12 hr shifts so i dont get to go on the net so much. Thanx everyone for the answers!!! xxx