-- Emeli Sande, who sang at the opening ceremony, sings at this one, too, after being “unwrapped on a newspaper rubbish truck,” according to the official program. The song is called “Read All About It.”
-- The rubbish truck carried Ms. Sande away and she has been replaced by the people from Stomp, and a choir of people singing the first chords to “Because,” by the Beatles. The Stomp people are hanging from the newspaper Tower Bridge playing the drums
(Nea's note: I'm very fond of Stomp.)
-- And then a car explodes and Batman and Robin come out. It’s apparently a dual reference to the movie “The Italian Job” and a British TV show called “Only Fools and Horses.” This is going to be absolutely inexplicable to the vast majority of international viewers, but it gets a huge cheer.
-- Meanwhile, hundreds of people wearing what looks like blue lederhosen, along with lightbulbs on their heads, are entering the stadium from a different direction. They do not have flags, but neither are they wearing long pants. We on The New York Times panel are not sure what they are supposed to represent.
Etc. I can't make heads or tails of it.
I haven't seen anything other than the Times coverage; NBC will deign to show something riddled with adverts and incessantly talked over in about another 3 hours and I will knit and make a note in my calendar to check UK websites for a highlights DVD in a couple of months.
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-- Emeli Sande, who sang at the opening ceremony, sings at this one, too, after being “unwrapped on a newspaper rubbish truck,” according to the official program. The song is called “Read All About It.”
-- The rubbish truck carried Ms. Sande away and she has been replaced by the people from Stomp, and a choir of people singing the first chords to “Because,” by the Beatles. The Stomp people are hanging from the newspaper Tower Bridge playing the drums
(Nea's note: I'm very fond of Stomp.)
-- And then a car explodes and Batman and Robin come out. It’s apparently a dual reference to the movie “The Italian Job” and a British TV show called “Only Fools and Horses.” This is going to be absolutely inexplicable to the vast majority of international viewers, but it gets a huge cheer.
-- Meanwhile, hundreds of people wearing what looks like blue lederhosen, along with lightbulbs on their heads, are entering the stadium from a different direction. They do not have flags, but neither are they wearing long pants. We on The New York Times panel are not sure what they are supposed to represent.
Etc. I can't make heads or tails of it.
I haven't seen anything other than the Times coverage; NBC will deign to show something riddled with adverts and incessantly talked over in about another 3 hours and I will knit and make a note in my calendar to check UK websites for a highlights DVD in a couple of months.