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The Liberace interview...A possible Freudian Slip?


When Liberace was being interviewed, and Murrow asked him about marriage, he referred to finding the perfect "mate", then talked about reading about Princess Margaret and how she is "looking for her dream man, too."

I was just though that perhaps the "looking for her dream man, too" was a Freudian slip, whereas the "mate" comment was something that could be construed as acceptable grammar, but certainly not normally a term used during those days, nor today. Not too many people refer to someone they're looking for as a "mate," save an Australian, and he's just talking about his buddy. LOL.

Just something interesting.



Doing nothing is hard. You never know when you're done.

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Just watching this excellent film for the 10th time. I do believe Liberace intentionally put out this somewhat 'closeted' message of his personal 'mate' preferences in the interview. All of middle America LOVED this guy and all the glitzy look and feel that came with him. Virtually NO ONE CARED that he was obviously 'fey', in the polite language of the day. The delusion worked throughout his life as a performer and still makes him an acceptable historical icon of the average older fan -- whether conservative or not.

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The whole mini-scene seemed strange to me. The only thing I can surmise is that in that era Liberace was getting away with being a pillow biter leaving Joe McCarthy to focus his attention on more important national problems. Negro women menial workers suspected of communistic thoughts. "No suh, I didn't reads no communists books."

He killed sixteen Czechoslovakians. Guy was an interior decorator.

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You simply couldn't reply without throwing something offensive in there, could you?

I drank what?

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Offended at what was real in that era? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gi9zFRBCIM



He killed sixteen Czechoslovakians. Guy was an interior decorator.

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It was Liberace's way of avoiding the fact that he was gay.

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