"Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache," Spanish surrealist Salvador Dali wrote in the preface to the 1954 book "Dali's Mustache." "It is better for the health."
The devilish Dali went on to add that he carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, he placed several versions of fake facial hair. "Mustache?" he would politely offer friends. "Mustache? Mustache?"
In conjunction with its current exhibit "Dali: The Late Work," the High Museum of Art is hosting a Mustache Party on Friday night, Nov. 5, in which guests are invited to show off real or faux you-know-whats. To get into the mustachioed spirit, we offer up a round of Match the 'Stache in which readers are challenged to connect a celeb with his famed facial presentation.
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The Mustache Party
8 p.m.-midnight Friday, Nov. 5, outside the High Museum of Art on Sifly Piazza. Includes mustache contest, live music, gallery viewing, beer and, at 10 p.m., a showing of the French film "The Mustache." (Rain location: Rich Theater.) $10. 1280 Peachtree St., Atlanta. 404-733-4444, www.high.org .
The Mustache Party
November 5, 8 p.m. to midnight, Sifly Piazza (rain location is Rich Theater)
Show off your real (or fake) 'stache at the High's Mustache Party beginning at 8 p.m. featuring live music, cold beer, a mustache contest and gallery viewing. After the Mustache Party view a free screening of "The Mustache," at 10 p.m. on Sifly Piazza (rain location is Rich Theater).$10 regular admission; $5 for members
Free Screening, "The Mustache," 10p.m. Selected and introduced by Eleanor Ringel Cater, columnist at The Atlanta Business Chronicle and film critic at WMLBRadio. Successful architect Marc finds his world improbably unraveling when his wife Agnes fails to recognize that he's shaved his signature mustache. Unnerved by her silence, he presses her to weigh in on his new look, and she replies that he's always been smooth-lipped. Thus begins the steady erosion of Marc's sanity, along with his once happy, even passionate marriage. (2005, France, 87 minutes.) In French, English, and Cantonese with subtitles.
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