Well, here's a new one from the vaults of history: apparently Surrealist artist Salvador Dali had a thing for sucking on the toes of nubile young starlets, at least according to onetime young starlet Ali MacGraw in her new book, Moving Pictures. Apparently, a pre-Love Story MacGraw was modeling for the artist in his St. Regis hotel room when Dali demanded that she disrobe. That's when things got a little weird.
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Salvador Dali Sucked Ali MacGraw's Toes In The St. Regis
Photos: Rare Dali Sculptures at the Time Warner Center
Thursday night, the Time Warner Center unveiled a major exhibit of Salvador Dali's sculpture, drawings, and paintings. The show features 16 original Dali sculptures (some as tall as 16.5 feet), as well as forty original Dali drawings and paintings. Most of these are very expensive (in the $50,000 range, and all on sale) and the general public is free to wander among the sculptures, free of charge! Dali was certainly an elitist megalomaniac whom real aesthetes love to hate, but we feel like he would have loved seeing his work in this glorified shopping mall.
Dali To Melt Faces At Time Warner Center
Stop fondling Adam's worn down man parts for a sec, and the next time you're in the Time Warner Center you may notice a new Salvador Dali exhibit. The exhibit opens tomorrow and will be on view through April 2011; the collection consists of 16 museum-size bronze sculptures, including ones of "Toreador Hallucinogene" and "Profile of Time." It's like Dali in IMAX 3-D! The exhibition will also include "a collection of over 40 original drawings, watercolors, collages and studies for important paintings on show for the first time ever in New York City."
Billion Dollar Internet Gambling Ring Busted
The NYPD and FBI shut down a $3.3 billion Internet gambling ring, arresting 27 people and seizing $7 million in cash and assets worth $500 million, including four Manhattan condos. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly called shutting down website Playwithal.com "the largest illegal gambling operation this department has ever encountered." Here's how it worked, according to the Daily News:
Traditional bookies would give bettors a secret code to use the Internet gambling site, authorities said. Bets were taken on all kinds of sports, including football, baseball, basketball, hockey, auto racing and golf - and at the end of each week, the bookies would pay off or collect from each client.more ›
Pencil This In
THEATER: Untitled Intentional Exercise #1, a "wild trip through desire and isolation" that combines the talents of Stuck Pigs Squealing, http://www.stuckpigs.com.au/ an Australian theater collective, with those of Mac Wellman, Oliver Butler, and Banana Bag and Bodice, http://www.bananabagandbodice.org/ has a fascinating show-specific website http://stuckpigs.multiply.com/ where the creators have been posting rehearsal videos and notes; check it out for a taste of the improvisational whirlwind you'll enter if you go, though even thus prepared it will surely be crazier, in a good way, than you expected . - Mallory Jensen
Finding Things To Blog About
Gothamist did an interview with the Associated Press about local blogs (which has turned up in a couple newspapers and websites). Since the AP decided to run a photograph with the story, we met up with AP photojournalist Bebeto Matthews in Midtown, near Rockefeller Center. After learning that Gothamist likes to blog about most anything we find interesting (and in order to avoid looking too posed), Matthews suggested taking a picture with David Combs, an artist who paints different city landmarks every day. His paintings show the buildings or areas in a warped/fisheye perspective, in order to get the entire structure in the painting, noting Salvador Dali and M.C. Escher as influences as well. And when we asked where he was from, Combs said he was visiting from San Antonio a few years ago but never left the city, which is a not uncommon "how I wound up in NYC story," we think. So, thanks to Bebeto Matthews suggesting we chat with David Combs.
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Bunuel and Dali at Film Forum
More about Bunuel and Dali. Destino, a short film co-written by Dali, is also nominated for a best animated short Oscar.
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