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This is the point in the program where the knighted rock legend tells an art aficionado what it was like to meet Muhammad Ali.Ringo Starr fell into that conversation Saturday afternoon at Animazing Art Gallery at The Venetian’s Grand Canal Shops. The rock-star-friendly gallery is displaying “Starr Art,” an exhibition and of Ringo’s paintings, through Oct. 15.In a private reception, Starr was talking to a giddy Cheryl Williams in a VIP room off the main exhibit space. Williams was extra-VIP, having purchased a Starr original acrylic-on-canvas for $110,000.Williams bought some face time with Starr as part of that purchase, and all of the sales go to Ringo’s Lotus Foundation charity. Williams told Starr that her husband has an iconic photo of The Beatles on “The Ed Sullivan Show” in his office. That portrait is alongside also a similarly iconic photo of John, Paul, George and Ringo on the canvas (the boxing variety) below a celebrating Cassius Clay.

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