The LA Times boils China’s Olympics down to their real essence: Yet what planners in Beijing miscalculated is that no matter how well you teach performers to smile, the strain behind the lips is still detectable. The near-hysterical drive by Chinese leaders to put on the biggest, most spectacular sporting event ever, and to engineer [...]
I hate to say “I told you so” (actually, I love it, but play along), but the director of the Beijing games’ opening and closing ceremonies touts the obedience of his countrymen in boosting his own work: China’s most famous film director, Zhang Yimou, who directed both ceremonies, said only Chinese performers were skilled, disciplined [...]
Another day, another deception from the People’s Republic of China’s Olympics. Remember the cute assemblage of children in colorful ethnic dress carrying the flag in the Opening Ceremony? They weren’t what they appeared to be: Media reports said the children were from the Galaxy Children’s Art Troupe, which involves young actors and actresses mainly from [...]
So our best gymnasts are now Nastia Liukin and Sasha Artemev, offspring of highly-decorated Soviet gymnast dads and moms. It’s funny how things work out. Twenty years ago, during the height of the Cold War, Valeri Liukin and Vladimir Artemev were slugging it out for the Marxist-Leninist system, and now their children are defeating its [...]
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