Taking Names

Million-dollar sound

Agence France-Presse

Oscar-winner Gwyneth Paltrow will make a cameo appearance — and a reported $3.6 million — as torch singer Peggy Lee in an upcoming biopic about author Truman Capote, the Internet Movie Database reports.

The actress has joined an all-star cast for “Every Word is True,” which also features Mark Wahlberg, Sandra Bullock and Sigourney Weaver, Daily Variety said.

Mr. Wahlberg will portray “In Cold Blood” murderer Perry Smith, while Miss Bullock will play “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee, a childhood friend of Mr. Capote.

Production begins in January.

Hello, Dali

Associated Press

Roy Disney said he’d often heard the myth at the Walt Disney Co. that Salvador Dali’s artworks from a long-forgotten project were somewhere in the studio’s archives.

It turned out not to be a myth.

The surrealist master had worked with Mr. Disney’s uncle, Walt Disney, from 1945-46, producing seven paintings and hundreds of ink drawings for an animated film that was never produced, Mr. Disney said.

The artwork — valued at $5 million to $10 million — sat in the studio unseen by the public for 58 years. That is, until now.

Mr. Disney said the company loaned about a dozen Dali pieces to a traveling exhibit in Europe, one of several celebrating the 100th anniversary of Mr. Dali’s birth on May 11, 1904. The artist died in 1989.

“It is truly the only Dali stuff in the world that was never seen up until this year,” Mr. Disney told Associated Press.

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