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This is some cold-blooded stuff.
The ponytailed girl in a red dress who sang “Ode to the Motherland” during Friday’s Opening Ceremonies for the Olympics was fit for the event, but apparently her voice was not.A Chinese government official acknowledged Tuesday that the girl was actually lip-syncing at Beijing’s “Bird’s Nest” stadium; the real singer’s face was deemed “not suitable.”
–Ariana Cha, “Pretty Face and Voice Didn’t Belong to Same Girl”, Washington Post, August 13, 2008
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Posted in Maximization on Wed Aug 13, 2008 at 10:00 pm by alex
china’s late to the game; they were doing this in the american cinema way back when. they even made a movie about it (”singin’ in the rain”).