European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 07, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Great Britain. A Heads sit out their retirement in storage awaiting the Day when their Star will Shine again. Is file put his face and his Multi chained outfit in new viewers livings rooms every week. " the exhibition is about famous people said Andrew _ Tasley the executive director of the Tussaud group and a member of the eight member portraits committee which meets every five or six weeks to decide who s in. And who s out. It can be positive or negative we Don t make any sort of moral judgments about people he said. But the one thing they All represent is Fame. Obviously we re All voracious readers of newspapers and magazines and we watch a lot of to and All the rest of it Tasley said. Well come Forward with names. Some names Are suggested by members of the Public. One of the Best dinner party conversations is who would you put in Madame Tussaud a you get some very interesting ideas.". V. V but the dummies have to be within the realm of daytime family taste which is Why visitors can see Saddam Hussein one of the most popular figures because people like to be photographed strangling him and Gary Gumore the notorious murderer but not Pec wee Herman and certainly hot Lorona Bobbi. Not even knife less. ". In the last five years the museum has added Nelson Mandela Luciano Pavarotti British prime minister John major Madonna David Hockney and the Dalai Lama among others to its 350-person exhibition. But the statue givers also can take away and they do once their subjects fade from Public consciousness. Some people Are perhaps no longer in the Public Eye the Way they once were Tasley explained putting the Issue Ever so delicately. When someone does t do it anymore maybe it s time they came  the museum tries to be sensitive about giving has beens the Boot not publicizing the removals and not scheduling them during particularly trying moments in. Formerly famous figures lives but room must be made for 20 or so new arrivals a year. Some figures Are constantly shifting Back and Forth in and out of the museum As they Are in and out of the limelight John Mcenroe for one has spent years being carried Back arid Forth. He s gone now. H generally takes six months for the museum to manufacture a Wax Dummy what with All the sculpturing molding costume manufacturing bom e _ subjects Are asked to give their own clothes and hair styling often based on donated samples. The hair by the Way is real and is inserted strand by strand in the Dummy s head. But in times of exigency like when major unexpectedly became prime minister the staff can whip up a figure in six weeks. Madame Tussaud s has always prided itself on including the current British prime minister and american president no matter what and likes to be ready with a Winner the morning after an election. But in 1988, when George Bush and Michael Dukakis were running for president the museum hedged its bets by installing figures of both men while the Campaign was still going on. T. Dukakis subsequent defeat Tasley said meant  he was summarily  he said was one of the shortest lived figures we a Ever had.". 7-13, 1995 stripes Magazine