Word: tussaud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unwholesome diversions. If all goes according to plan, their place will be taken by, among many other things, the Ford Center for the Performing Arts (a new megatheater for musicals combining two of the street's original stages), vast multiplex movie theaters and more tourist lures like Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum...
...FOUR: Grant and Hurley, reunited at an English country house, lunch in range of telephoto lenses. Titillating reports circulate of a double bed being delivered. Madame Tussaud's says it will not drop plans for creating a wax effigy of Grant. Day's Big Rumor: No one will remember any of this next week...
Essentially, if it's pop -- Sir Mix-a-Lot videos, cookie-dough Haagen-Dazs, Harvey Wallbangers, Beauty and the Beast trinkets, tickets to a Madame Tussaud's waxworks -- and doesn't involve pornography, switchblades or free- base pipes, the powers that be want it on the new 42nd Street. "We're after vulgar heterogeneity," says the sly, donnish and influential architect Robert A.M. Stern, who drafted the new guidelines with the sly, perverse and influential graphic designer Tibor Kalman. Incredibly, they have persuaded the state and city to get behind an authentically populist spectacle, a potential mix of tourist traps...
...lose the knack. But Jackson lost touch. Not as a performer -- his falsetto and his footwork still dazzle -- but with his audience. His career went stratospheric, and he went extraterrestrial. He seemed like one of the exotic animals he keeps in his backyard habitat. For some imaginary Madame Tussaud's, he transformed himself into his own waxed, blanched figure...