Nixon goes to China

Marni Nixon, that is ...

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/news?slug=ap-china-lip-synchedsong&prov=ap&type=lgns

Olympic opening uses girl’s voice, not face
By CARA ANNA, Associated Press Writer
41 minutes ago

AP - Aug 12, 5:56 am EDT
Olympics Gallery BEIJING (AP)—One little girl had the looks. The other had the voice.

So in a last-minute move demanded by one of China’s highest officials, the two were put together for the Olympic opening ceremony, with one lip-synching “Ode to the Motherland” over the other’s singing.

The real singer, 7-year-old Yang Peiyi, with her chubby face and crooked baby teeth, wasn’t good looking enough for the ceremony, its chief music director told state-owned Beijing Radio.

So the pigtailed Lin Miaoke, a veteran of television ads, mouthed the words with a pixie smile for a stadium of 91,000 and a worldwide TV audience. “I felt so beautiful in my red dress,” the tiny 9-year-old told the China Daily newspaper.

 

All over this on the Olympic thread.

Plus scribepharisee started a "commies" thread about it as well.

But thanks for playing.

 

Twoback goes to DB-land.

 

Is this the original or the dubbed thread?

 

Sorry, SP. I didn't care about this. I just loved the Nixon goes to China head. You of all people should have recognized that.

 

"Only Nixon could go to China."

 

spnited remembers when Marco Polo went to China.

 

Yes. That's a bootsian reason to start a D_B thread.