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Salvador Dali never ceases to amaze ... but it's not what you think
4:00 am Feb 26 - by Sarah Gorr – buzz Writer
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In a blast from the past, this week’s YouTube Pick of the Week is a clip from the 1950s game show What’s My Line? The show featured a fairly simple premise: The host would introduce a mystery guest to a panel of four judges and, asking only yes or no questions and often without visual clues, they would have to guess the identity of the guest. What’s so intriguing about that, you ask? The fact that this episode’s special guest isn’t some actor or crooner but the king of surrealism himself, Salvador Dali. While the show often featured high profile guests such as Alfred Hitchcock and Bette Davis, Dali seems oddly out of place. In this 10-minute clip, he baffles the panel with his perplexing answers. Surreal seems the only way to describe the episode as Dali lisps, “Yes,” to almost every question, no matter how seemingly absurd. Take a break from studying to check it out and consider it a “culturally informative experience” because Dali’s presence means you can.
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Last post: Feb. 26, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Jeff Brandt (Jeff Brandt) said on Feb. 26, 2009 at 5:24 pm:
It's great to see how much Dali was very much a man ahead of his time and a poor fit for the 1950s whitebread society catered to by shows like this. That's when you know you're a great artist . . . When people by and large have nothing to say about you other than that you're unusual.