Olympic Opening Ceremony

[susbees]

No tele here....who lit the cauldron?

Quite...on the water in the kayaks watching bees on the HB near Bath....out for dinner and the theatre.

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[Firefly]

I've now seen most of it 3 times: once on Brighton beach, once on a tiny PC screen and once projected on the wall. I agree that Danny Boyle sneaked in some quite spiky stuff

My favourite was forcing the BBC to transmit Frankie Goes to Hollywood to the queen, the archbishop of canterbury and a worldwide audience of a billion, only 28 years after they banned them. Hats off

A shame he chose to celebrate the digital age with Berners-Lee rather than Alan Turing, but I suppose TBL has the advantage of being alive

I want to know what role Mark Rylance would have had if he had not had to pull out. Was Brannagh an understudy, or would Rylance have been Rooster Byron?

There were more than 2 hives, by the way

And finally...

[FONT=&quot]The Olympics: constructive corporate engagement with an inspirational public celebration or ruinous public subsidy of dubious corporate marketing?[/FONT]

On your marks...