Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Beijing Opener

In a Cyrano de Bergeracesque twist the Chinese felt that a seven year old girl's voice was pretty enough to woo the world, but that she herself was too ugly to be in the opener. So they had a stand in lip sink to her warbles. via murdoc

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In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency,

Lin Miaoke, a nine-year-old Chinese girl who performed

at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics on the

day before, returns to the Xizhongjie Primary School of

Dongcheng District in Beijing on Saturday, Aug. 9, 2008.

A 7-year-old Chinese girl's face was "not suitable" for the

Olympics opening ceremony, so Lin lip-synched "Ode to

the Motherland", the latest example of the lengths Beijing

took for a perfect start to the Summer Games.

3 comments:

alfred said...

The tried to do the right thing.They spared the world from an image that would perpetuate the stereotype of the"buck-toothed China-man". What they shoulda done, is get one of them Fortune's Cookie orientals from the internet.

Jimmy said...

Did you see the post on NRO where the Chi-com's used Albert Speer jr to help stage the opening ceremonies?

Adam said...

This coverage is just a smear attempt by the liberal Tibet supporting media.There was no such outcry over Pavarotti's lipsynching in Turino.