Word: tussaud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bizarre physical impersonation that had him descending the stairs of airplanes with just the gingerly J.F.K. inclination of bad back and his right hand tucked into his jacket pocket, the thumb protruding in the way that Kennedy's always did. The American voter began to think of Madame Tussaud's, or of Elvis impersonators...
...Wars space battle. The second half is an elaborate Michael Jackson video, in which the star emerges from his rickety spaceship to do battle with the Evil Empress, played with magisterial malevolence by Oscar Winner Anjelica Huston (Prizzi's Honor). Jackson, who by now could double for his own Tussaud waxwork, is an improbable Han Solo, but he still dances like a jive Astaire and earned audible swoons from teenage girls at the premiere. The film's 3-D effects are familiar but engineered with flair: an asteroid waits to plop in your lap, Fuzzball hovers adorably over your shoulder...
...camped up. Critics will also note the absence of glamour gold from Phil Spector's girl groups; where is Uptown, He's a Rebel, Be My Baby, Not Too Young to Get Married or the ineffable Da Doo Ron Ron? But Gallagher was not looking to create a Madame Tussaud's of femme pop; he wanted to take an affectionate look at "a girl growing up, coming of age in that period. For me, and apparently for many people in the audience, it's The Way We Were of the '60s." As the decade and the show progress, girl groups...
Will the real Michael Jackson please stand up or, in this case, sit down? The reclusive singer was at Madame Tussaud's wax museum in London last week to witness the debut of his life-size look-alike. The wax Jackson, for which the singer posed last November, has an electric bulb twinkling in its right eye, the jeweled glove on the outstretched right hand is studded with tiny strobes, and the silver waistcoat also lights up. After a close inspection, the sleek and shiny original pronounced his nondancing double to be "excellent, really good." Then Jackson went outside...
...volume edition of Orwell's complete works will be published next year in the U.S. and England. A wax figure of the author is to be installed at Madame Tussaud's in London at the end of December. Science-fiction buffs discussed the father of Big Brother in Antwerp this fall. Futurists look forward to gathering for the same purpose in Washington next June, well after the separate Orwell festivities planned by the Smithsonian Institution and Library of Congress. By then hearings scheduled by a House Judiciary subcommittee on "1984: Civil Liberties and the National Security State" will...