Among the many dizzy pleasures of Steven Soderbergh's excellent Liberace biopic "Behind the Candelabra" which premiered last week at Cannes and aired on HBO on Sunday (read our review) and which hopefully some of you have had the chance to catch up with, is the meticulous recreation of the period setting --- from Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" to the cars, the fashions, and the unenlightened attitudes towards homosexuality, it's a film that revels in late 70s/early 80s detail. And part of that comes from the dialogue too, with characters making often rapid-fire allusions to people and events that may have been well-known at the time, but are maybe not quite so current in our minds now. So we're taking a moment to run through the stories behind 7 personalities, contemporary, historical and in one case merely alleged, mentioned in passing in "Behind the Candelabra" mainly so that the next time we watch it (because it's a film we're definitely looking forward to seeing again)...
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