Mr. Farrell also tried his hand at producing, serving as executive producer of the 1987 comedy "Mannequin," in which a young man, played by Andrew McCarthy, falls in love with a department store mannequin who comes to life (Kim Cattrall).
Perhaps he recently saw a re-run of the 1987 film "Mannequin," in which a department store window dresser named Jonathan Switcher (played by actor Andrew McCarthy) falls in love with a mannequin (played by Kim Cattrall) who ultimately comes to life.
Many labs are taking on the Mannequin Challenge, in which groups of people stand stock-still for the video camera often in extreme poses as if suddenly frozen in time.
That prompted a reply from David Mellor, home office minister in 1983, arguing that her proposal that depictions of explicit acts of human urination or excretion be banned would outlaw "a picture of a baby urinating in a nappy advertisement; or a photograph of the mannequin in Brussels which serves as a fountain".
Replicants, to a contemporary eye, seem a harbinger of a not-so-distant future -- one in which mannequins hard-wired with human attributes will so effectively mirror their makers as to seem interchangeable.
To wit: a 2009 holiday display in which a mannequin wearing an Alexander McQueen dress stood before an assortment of spiral staircases, ranging in scale from dollhouse to penthouse, winding in and out of tiny dioramas.
The most tantalizing of the urban dramas was window No. 11, in which a mannequin named Bonnie (whom Hershman Leeson named after Bonwit) was posed with her hand crashing through the glass, as if wanting to join the action on the sidewalk.
(One wonders, do they really make such voluptuous mannequins?) Posted outside the gallery in which these paintings hang is a small sign that cautions: "This exhibition contains nudity.
Computer-aided fashion design can enhance the efficiency of product development, in which a 3D mannequin links the development and application of the entire design system, thus rendering the 3D mannequin data required for fashion design very important.
"There's always a point, a point of no return/Always something to give up, always something to learn," she sings in "Mannequin Woman," which plugs along, dark but poppy, like Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams".
The scene is a reference to an incident on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, in which Ed Ames hit a mannequin in the crotch while demonstrating a tomahawk throw.
