Late this week or early next, the Wax Museum will unveil its newest figure, George W. Bush, who will join a group of nearly 20 American presidents.

While such political figures have a long shelf life, other celebrities come and go or are refigured.

The museum's Curtis Huber told TIC this week, for instance, that an exhibit that once featured Elizabeth Taylor and her then-five husbands (Johnny-come- latelies John Warner and Larry Fortensky were never immortalized in wax) was edited down to Taylor solo.

What happened to the guys? Richard Burton, with full beard, became a man in the crowd at the Sermon on the Mount; Nicky Hilton's head was split in half for a display on how wax heads are made; Michael Wilding's was packed into a display case for a traveling schoolkids' exhibition; Michael Todd was used as a stand-in for Hannibal Lecter, seen from the back in a "Silence of the Lambs" scene; and poor Eddie Fisher "just disappeared," Huber said.