With Sartre and Picasso :-)
This is like Madame Tussaud's in London. Actually, it seems, the Grevin Museum came first and Grevin's neice or somebody (Madame Tussaud) went to London and did the similiar thing there, and it became more famous. The museum was moderately interesting, there is only so much you can do with the idea of having wax statues of famous people. However the Grevin people were quite creative and the musuem had lots of small interesting bits. The museum staff (it seems) were instructed to look as
much like wax figures as possible so there was a nice blending between fantasy and reality. There was one place where a staff member stood still pretending to be a figure, and then gave you a shock by coming alive (there was another place where an enterprising visitor did the same thing!).
The full set of Grevin Wax museum images are here as a Yahoo Photos album if you are interested. We took a lot of photos and now we aren't able to identify several of them so perhaps you can see if you know them :-)
5 comments:
Wow, those wax statues are amazingly genuine!!! I've always wanted to see one of those museums. One of those (with Banu in the pic) looks like Julia Roberts in Pretty women but the guy next to her is not Richard Gere!??
Yes it is Julia Roberts, but the guy is Sean Connery
Is Picasso signing you the refund check for the sculpture he did in Chicago??
Did you ask Sartre that if existentialism implies a marxist economy, if marxism is doomed so is existentialism.
Did you eat freedom fries? Garcon, royale burger por favor.
Arvind
Or is it, Garcon, royale burger si vous plait.
Almost there: 'sil vous plait'. You don't have to say 'royale burger'. You just say 'une royale'. Or if you're a purist: 'une royole avec fromage'
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