Dali Planet #148: Teatro Real
Often at Dali’s parties was his friend the Italian Prince Dado Ruspoli (1924-2005), known as “the king of Capri”. He was a notorious playboy, a philanthropist, sometimes a poet, a 40-year heroin addict, played “Vanni” in “The Godfather: Part III” and was among Fellini’s inspirations for “La Dolce Vita”. There’s more here about this character-and-a-half, who went around barefoot long before the hippies, coloured streaks in his hair long before the punks, once shared a flat on the Cote d’Azur with Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda, was at various times friendly with Cocteau, Picasso, Capote and Polanski and took lessons in hypnosis from Orson Welles.
