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March 22, 2008
"Giraffes on Horseback Salads"
No really. Salvador Dalí wrote a film script for the Marx Brothers of that name in 1937: The "Surrealist woman" is lying in the middle of a great bed, sixty feet long, with the rest of the guests seated around each side. Along the bed, as decorations, are a group of dwarfs caught by Harpo. Each is supported on a crystal base, decorated with climbing flowers. The dwarfs stay as still as statues, holding lighted candelabras, and change their positions every few minutes.Etc. The film was never made, obviously. Groucho nixed it because he didn't think it would be funny. (Probably right.) Dalí and loved Harpo Marx confessed to a mutual admiration: Dalí's first encounter with Harpo Marx was at a party in Paris. They confessed a mutual admiration. Then Dalí sent Harpo a Christmas present: a harp with barbed wire for strings and spoons for tuning knobs, wrapped in cellophane. Harpo was delighted and sent Dalí a photograph of himself sitting at the harp with bandaged fingers as if he'd been playing it and cutting himself on the wire.Here's the photo of Harpo with bandaids, playing the Dalí harp: Makes me feel like gluing thumbtacks onto a computer keyboard -- as an artistic statement against blogging addiction! posted by Eric on 03.22.08 at 10:41 AM |
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Don't know if you have access to the game cable channel...but at 12:30 am they replay Gary Moore's tv show, I've Got a Secret.
Watched Salvadore Dali drape women one night.
Interesting man. I TIVO that and What's My Line. ah, childhood...