Word: tussaud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nigel Davenport is a steady Bothwell to Miss Redgrave, and Trevor Howard, as William Cecil, is always fun to watch, even though not at his best. The rest of the cast appear to have been plucked from the back room of Madame Tussaud...
Shot in color that may have been invented by Madame Tussaud and edited with a cleaver, The Villain is acceptable only as a glimpse of procedural tradition, the English bloodhound pursuing his accursed foe. Villain Burton's voice remains one of the most distinctive and controlled in the world. But he is no longer in charge of his face. The little piggy eyes glisten and swivel in a seamed and immobile background. Dissipation, alas, now seems less a simulacrum than a portrait...
...editors picked the man who they thought was the most admired in history. The winner was Jesus Christ (280 votes). Runners-up: Winston Churchill (175), Abraham Lincoln (151), Thomas Jefferson (72), George Washington (66). Also-rans: Socrates, Leonardo da Vinci, Mahatma Gandhi, William Shakespeare, Albert Schweitzer. Visitors to Madame Tussaud's waxworks in London voted Churchill the Hero of All Time, ahead of Jesus, John F. Kennedy, Admiral Nelson and Joan of Arc. As Most Hated and Feared, the waxwork freaks voted Hitler and Mao Tse-tung one and two. President Nixon ranked fourth. Three tied for fifth place...
Something about the poses and expressions suggested Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum. But the photo actually showed a live actor, Stacy Keach, sitting in a real electric chair, and his producerdirector, Jack Smight, making a film called The Traveling Executioner on location at Kilby Prison near Montgomery, Ala. The third figure was merely a familiar passerby: George Wallace...
...visit to Mme. Tussaud's wax museum, an American ambassador once observed, "is just like an ordinary English evening party." Last week, as Mme. Tussaud's celebrated its 200th anniversary in London, the company was a bit more animated. At a dinner in Tussaud's halls, with the likenesses of Mao and Churchill staring eerily on, Earl Mountbatten examined himself and said: "Every few years they bring you up to date-take out a few hairs, add a wrinkle." Perhaps the only personage whose image had improved was Mary Queen of Scots. Her biographer, Lady Antonia Fraser...