They faked some of the fireworks? Oh, fine, for the sake of TV spectacularity.* The little girl who sang was lip-synching because the vocalist wasn't cute enough? Well, no one wants to see an ugly kid,
especially in high-def. The adult performers were wearing Depends disposable undergarments? Ummm ... what?
"You wanna know a secret?" an International Olympic Committee member from Las Vegas asked me in the lobby of the Shangri-La's Kerry Centre Hotel in Beijing. "The performers are wearing diapers during rehearsals so they don't have to take bathroom breaks." --Huffington Post
*Warning: Not an actual word.
2 comments:
That is a shitty thing to do to those performers. I'll bet it pissed them off.
Fermi beat me to the word play. I was amazed by the opening ceremonies. Now I know it was all a lie.
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