(2005-11-15) Dueling Corpses

Someone in the office noted that there's a body-parts exhibit at the South Street Seaport. But the well-known BodyWorlds exhibit is in Philadelphia at the Franklin Institute.

Finally realized these are 2 separate competing exhibits. Premier Exhibitions, Inc. is not affiliated with any other organizer of human anatomy exhibitions, including GuntherVonHagens, Gerhard Perner, or Genlife Biomedical. BODIES ... The Exhibition should not be confused with "Body Worlds," "Body Exploration," "The Universe Within," "Bodies Revealed," or any other human anatomy exhibition.

Heh, sounds like a Cut Throat business.

• looks like multiple groups are Off Shoring their supply to China - Arnie Geller, the president of Premier Exhibitions Inc., the company that spent $25 million to obtain the specimens from a Chinese university, insists that the human remains, all but two of them male, are those of the poor, the unclaimed or the unidentified. Although he said he was not allowed to keep copies of documents, officials at Dalian University in northern China showed him papers attesting to the origin of the remains... But Harry Wu, the executive director of the Lao Gai Research Foundation, an organization that documents abuses in China's penal system, said officials from Dalian University had been previously implicated in the use of executed prisoners for commercial purposes, having supplied bodies to GunterVonHagens, the German entrepreneur who started the first traveling show of the dead, "World of Bodies. (aka BodyWorlds)" Dr. Sui Hongjin, who was previously Mr. Von Hagen's Chinese partner until a falling out three years ago, is now working with Premier Exhibitions, which has its headquarters in Atlanta.

We need a new level of competition. Animatronics must be the answer. A new "RubberBandMan" video. Medlies of Andrew Lloyd Webber stuff. The possibilities are endless...