Martin AustermuhleAbout as close to celebrity-status as the District gets is when Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt decide to buy a house here and Woody Harrelson spends a few days filming a few shots for an upcoming movie. That might soon change.
Well, kind of.
NBC 4 is reporting that the owners of the world famous Madame Tussauds wax museum are in talks with the District over the possibility of opening a museum in downtown D.C. If the talks become reality, we will join London, Amsterdam, New York, Hong Kong and Las Vegas as cities that host the museum’s accurate yet slightly creepy wax replicas of the rich and famous. Obviously, should the museum open in the District, we’d expect a room dedicated to one of our own homegrown celebrities — Marion Barry.
Madame Tussauds is owned by Dubai International Capital, an investment firm based in the United Arab Emirates. As in the Middle East. Oh. My. God. Are we really willing to let a firm beholden to a Middle Eastern kingdom open a “wax museum” in the heart of the nation’s capital? The outrage! We demand hearings in Congress! The country’s security is at stake!
