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Interview with Liberace, answering the following question [not heard in clip] "Would you compare this [his performances] to a religious experience" and he responds with "Well there's a very close relationship between an entertainer and a preacher, you know Billy Graham does it from the pulpit, I do it from the stage but the thing is that we are bringing people together in a group, sometimes in a very large group; I've played to audiences that have been as large as some of those Billy Graham reaches, like 100,000 people, and to be able to bring 100,000 people together in one kind of happy thought and expression, you have to be a leader, you have to be a kind of a preacher in a sense and it's amazing how many people in the church have recognised this in my work like Pope Pius XII. I spent nearly a half hour with him and he discussed this with me; Archbishop Cardinal Cushing, I knew him when he was Archbishop now Cardinal Cushing, he has this kinda of quality with the public and he led a cheer for me on his lawn at his home in Boston and he has that ability to embrace a crowd, bring 'em into his fold and try to lead them in the proper paths you know?", London, United Kingdom; 1970 (LCA4247S - AEVZ001J)