A variation on the Blond, Blue-eyed Jesus image of old
The nativity scene at Madame Tussaud's in London reportedly features an all-celebrity wax cast. [Or possibly an all-wax celebrity cast.]
www.thisislondon.co.uk/til/jsp/modules/GalleryPopup.jsp?itemId=15154511&imageId=3
www.thisislondon.co.uk/til/jsp/modules/GalleryPopup.jsp?itemId=15154511&imageId=0

David Beckham plays Joseph, with David's wife, Victoria, filling in as Mary. George Bush and his buddy Tony Blair are two of the three gift-bearing wise men. Samuel L. Jackson, Hugh Grant and comedian Graham Norton are the three shepherds with Kylie Minogue, as an angel, hovering above the crowd.

www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/15165055?source=Evening%20Standard&ct=5

A spokesman for the Vatican said the display was "if not blasphemous then certainly in very poor taste" while one senior Church of England bishop's spokesman labelled it "an outrage" ... A spokesman for Madame Tussaud's said: "It is not our intention to offend anybody and we are sorry if we have indeed offended people. ... The display is supposed to be something funny for the festive period. We will be monitoring the reaction and will make a decision on whether it stays."

Mmmm ... a seductively-posed angel hovering above you that looks like Kylie in a thin, clinging white silk gown? Yup, can see the attraction there.

Having heard that someone is having a "Satan Claws" instead of a "Santa Claus", where children queue up & get a small, but perfectly gruesome, present from someone dressed as a demon, I reckon that for a real publicity stunt next year, they should set up a Crucifixion scene using figures from their Chamber of Horrors. Stopping short of suggesting they be used for the Nativity scene; some of the hardline fundamentalists would probably firebomb them after that.

[permalink][comment] - posted by Mez @ 12/15/2004 04:28:00 pm