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Lip synching at the Olympics? What is this, reality TV?
Published 8/14/2008 by Gary Susman at Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
... , I imagine Nigel Lythgoe reading an item like this one (about the adorable floating girl who, it seems, lip-synched her song because the real singing girl wasn't deemed cute enough) and thinking to himself: "Blimey, why didn't we do this with ...

One More Opening Ceremonies Fake-Out
Published 8/15/2008 by James Poniewozik at Tuned In - TIME.com
... and the phony singing , how could Chinese Olympic organizers possibly top themselves? With phony Chinese! OK, that's a slight distortion. But a slighter one than, we're learning in dribs and drabs, pervaded the production of the ceremonies. ...