Either which way, you need to know more about Ali McGraw.
When MacGraw complimented Dalí on his “incredible cloisonné walking stick,” he invited her to the King Cole Bar, in the St. Regis hotel, where he held lecherous court over a coterie of ingénues. MacGraw beat a hasty exit, but Dalí later sent her a gift-boxed, imitation-pearl-encrusted live iguana.
