This article is a complete crock.
Firstly, no one, even here in the UK, knows what the show is going to be. So the idea that the NY Times has the inside scoop, when the Sun, Times, Guardian et al dont, even now as I post at 10pm BST on the 25th, is a crock.
There has been a highly securitised preview last night, and only today have any vague and I mean very vague snippets of news filtered out to the British media, let alone the NY Times. And all we know is that those who attended the last preview have said it was and will be ‘incredible’, ‘spectacular’ etc. But still even tonight as I post, no concrete facts have slipped out.
I actually think the writer has written a sarcastic piece on what the ceremony might be, as a satire on PC-ism. But I can pretty much assure you, as a Brit, who is following the Olympics, that what is in his article is conjecture, hype and speculation.
Oh, I devoutly hope you’re right. That sounded horrible. I was going to say if he was going for something that dismal, he might have been better off basing the thing on “Trainspotting”. Imagine a couple hundred dancers dressed as Mark Renton, dancing on (and in) replicas of the worst toilet in Scotland. Now that I’d tune in for.
Thank you indeed for the heads up. I have a suspicion you are right. A slightly red faced grin from this Freeper. I wonder if it followed the demand for a moment of silence, to remember the Israeli athletes so senselessly murdered in Munich 1972 ?
It gave someone an idea, maybe.