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Wax Wedding a Victim of Gay Marriage Ban
Madame Tussauds, a wax museum in Las Vegas, Nevada, called off a November 15 "wedding" of its wax figures of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt when a Los Angeles-based spokeswoman for Pitt complained about it.
Movie stars Pitt and Joile, the parents of three children, have never wed, and Pitt recently told Esquire magazine that he doesn't intend to marry until "everyone else in the country who wants to be married is legally able." That's a sweeping statement, but Pitt was referring only to America's current ban on gay marriage, and was not sanctioning polygamy, people marrying their pets, their avatars, Satan, etc.
The staged wedding was designed to promote the wax museum's new Angelina Jolie figure, and would also serve as a useful way to recycle other wax stars. The "fantasy" aspect of the wedding could have been inferred from the witnesses, who were to include Elvis, Liberace, John Wayne, Bugsy Siegel, and Frank Sinatra, all of whom are dead.
The Pitt spokeswoman admitted that Pitt, who is currently in India, was unaware of the wedding. But she was firm in her position that he would not like it.
[11/18/2006]Madame Tussauds Las Vegas
- Address:
- 3355 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas, NV
- Directions:
- Madame Tussauds Las Vegas. East side of The Strip (Las Vegas Blvd S.), on the north end of the Venetian Hotel-Casino, between Sands Ave. and Flamingo Rd.
- Hours:
- Su-Th 10 am - 9:30 pm, F-Sa 10 am -10:30 pm. (Call to verify) Local health policies may affect hours and access.
- Phone:
- 702-862-7800
- RA Rates:
- Worth a Detour
Madame Tussauds knows how to arrange a photo opportunity. At their Las Vegas wax museum, the whole idea is to pose with your favorite celebrities. Snapshots are encouraged, and the wax figures are high quality facsimiles of Hollywood and Vegas famous. It's always surprises us, especially after a summer examining the corpse-like, near unrecognizable sculptures at the nation's low grade wax museums.
At Tussauds, if a visitor holds still for just a few seconds, a crowd starts to gather trying to guess which famous person it might be.
While we shot plenty of photos ourselves, this snapshot seemed important to publish ASAP -- as a caution. The idea of the Hugh Hefner figure, in his PJs on a circular bed, is that people who DO NOT look like Playboy playmates can pose with him. That's what makes it funny. Our momentary models, April and Tara, simply look too comfortable and natural hanging with the Man.
So take our advice -- hold Grandma Flo's walker while she puts on the bunny ears and climbs on Hef's lap. Your family will appreciate it.
[Roadsideamerica.com Team, 09/06/2006]Leader of the Revolution, pressed into service hawking drinks. Bar closed Nov. 2019, Lenin removed. Dasvidaniya.
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Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
- Directions:
- At the south end of the Strip, at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, at the Red Square bar.
- Hours:
- Nov. 2019: Bar closed, Lenin removed.
- Status:
- Gone
The Headless Lenin statue is in Mandalay Bay at the Red Square, across from Lupo.
[Lisa, 05/21/2019]- Las Vegas, Nevada - Head of Lenin
Re "Vegas Turns Lenins into Lemonade": the statue is to the left of the door of the Red Square bar & restaurant, inside Mandalay Bay. To the right of the door is a three story, glass-walled freezer for chilling vodka. Lenin's head is on the floor (it's dim inside, you'll have to peer through the windows). By the way, don't bother asking the hotel staff for help finding the statue or head -- they were mostly uninformed.
[Drew Dekreon, 07/21/2002]
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