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CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen shows how the blathering video shown at the Rio Olympics opening ceremony is replete with lies and distortions — and speculates that the intent was to refocus attention away from the Zika virus, polluted water, crime, and other bad news coming out of Rio and as usual to scare people into surrendering their freedoms.

Choreographer and painter Shen Wei (Park Avenue Armory, 2011; 2008 Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony) makes his BAM debut with a dance - based interpretation of Morton Feldman's 1977 anti-opera for orchestra and soprano.

He has designed objects for the Spiderman — Turn Off The Dark, a musical production in New York City; Sea Glass, a futuristic carousel in Lower Manhattan NY; created site specific installations for an immersive theater project «Queen Of The Night» at Paramount Hotel in New York City; designed giant inflatable scenic objects for the Sochi Olympics Opening Ceremony.

Danny Boyle has paid a touching tribute to the tragic British stuntman who parachuted into the 2012 London Olympics Opening Ceremony as James Bond...

When: April 5th Why: Danny Boyle's follow - up to «127 Hours» can't get here quick enough, especially after being delayed by the director's other engagements on stage (the National Theatre production of «Frankenstein») and for his country (the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony).

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He shot the art - heist thriller Trance in late 2011, took a break to direct the London Olympics opening ceremony in 2012, and is now back at work putting the finishing touches on Trance.

Pita Taufatofua of Tonga — who grabbed attention by marching shirtless as his country's flag - bearer in the Olympics opening ceremony — comes in 114th on Friday in the men's cross-country skiing 15 - kilometer race.

When athletes from Japan entered the stadium at the Olympics opening ceremony, the commentary on NBC sparked a firestorm.

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For someone who turned the story of a man trapped by a boulder into something cinematic (127 Hours) and organized the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, however, this was manna.

Directed by Academy Award ® - winner Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire, London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony), Frankenstein features Benedict Cumberbatch (12 Years A Slave, Star Trek: Into Darkness) and Jonny Lee Miller (Trainspotting, Mansfield Park) alternating roles as Victor Frankenstein and his creation.

Though moviegoers were forced to wait a few years for Boyle's much - anticipated follow - up to «127 Hours» — due to other engagements on stage (the National Theatre production of «Frankenstein») and for his country (the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony)-- the delay seemed well worth it following the news that he would be reteaming with frequent collaborator John Hodge («Shallow Grave,» «Trainspotting»).

Konstantin Ernst, creative director behind Sochi Winter Olympics opening ceremony, demonstrates Zen - like calm in face of embarrassing.

It creates an eerie infographic of world - shaking events unfolding in real - time on the site — Obama's re-election, the Sandy Hook massacre, the Olympics opening ceremony.

He notably was the first Tory MP to call out his colleague Aidan Burley in 2012, after the right - winger spectacularly misjudged the mood across the country and tweeted that the Olympics opening ceremony was «multicultural crap».

The Olympics opening ceremony, in Burley's eyes, was nothing but «leftie multi-cultural crap».

@MayorofLondon Can you confirm that the Olympics opening ceremony will involve you riding a Boris Bike around the stadium?

Just a few weeks ago the Olympics opening ceremony summed up Britain's history by portraying our green and pleasant land being paved over with industrialised concrete.

A four - time Olympic luger from a suburb of Utica, Erin Hamlin, will carry the American flag during the Olympics Opening Ceremony in PyeongChang.

Ralph Lauren revealed the United State's Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony outfits on Thursday.

I used olive oil, and 20 of us at our Olympics opening ceremony Brazil - themed party, thought they tasted superb!

Not one will be showing the Olympics opening ceremony live.

The 2018 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony will air at 8 p.m. ET on NBC.

The 2018 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony takes place Friday night in PyeongChang, but some sports fans are already looking far down the road in hopes of bringing the games back to the U.S.

Friday's Winter Olympics opening ceremonies could slow business, though the Summer Games traditionally has made more of a dent on moviegoing.

This exhibition takes its title from the Twitter message that British computer scientist Tim Berners - Lee (inventor of the World Wide Web) used to light up the stadium at the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremonies.

Not exact matches

Not only is it possible that Kim Yo Jong could steal the spotlight from Pence in both local and international media coverage with a charm offensive, but Olympics officials are concerned about the seating arrangements at Friday's Opening Ceremonies.

«I've never seen an Olympics firsthand, so I'm looking forward to the opening ceremony because that's always impressive.

The 2016 Summer Olympics kick off Friday night in Rio de Janeiro with an opening ceremony that is likely to be one of the most - watched TV events of the year, if previous Olympic openings are any guide.

In a rare show of diplomacy between the two Koreas, Kim Jong Un's younger sister traveled to South Korea on Friday for the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.

The opening ceremony for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London drew a reported global audience of 900 million people, with 41 million of those people watching from within the U.S.. For some context, those U.S. viewership totals would outpace this year's Academy Awards (34.3 million viewers) while falling well short of the most recent Super Bowl (111 million).

Days before the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, 1,200 security staff have been sequestered after a suspected norovirus outbreak.

SEOUL — North Korea is stealing the thunder, if not the show, from the Americans at the Pyeongchang Olympics, with word that the charming younger sister of ruler Kim Jong Un is arriving Friday for an Opening Ceremony that will also feature U.S. Vice President Mike Pence.

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters)- The Pyeongchang Winter Olympics are on track though organizers are battling the spread of a virus among staff and preparing to deal with the cold snap at Friday's opening ceremony, Games chief Lee Hee - beom said on Tuesday.

Read how the high - tech precision screen company partnered with Ralph Lauren and U.S. manufacturers to produce a cutting - edge down parka to be worn by U.S. Olympic athletes during the opening ceremonies of the 2018 Winter Olympics.

NBC has won an unprecedented 95 Emmy Awards for its Olympics coverage, as well as a prestigious Peabody Award for its presentation of the Beijing Opening Ceremony in 2008, which USA Today said was «the best overall Olympic experience ever provided by a U.S. network.»

Also: Russian military spies were behind the cyberattack that hit the Olympics» opening ceremony, The Washington Post reports, quoting unnamed U.S. officials.

A Korean unity deal for the Pyeongchang Olympics will see 22 North Korean athletes cross the border with South Korea to compete and march together under a unification flag at the opening ceremony.

The Olympics triggered a palpable shift in national mood, brought about by the opening ceremony and then enthusiasm for the Games themselves.

The Olympics triggered a palpable shift in national mood, brought about by the opening ceremony and then... More

In the UK we think of hospitals as government business, as exemplified by the wonderful National Health Service that ensures each sick child is tucked into bed by an angelic nurse, as the opening ceremony for the London Olympics had it.

I wasn't going to bake tonight, I thought I needed a break, but then I decided it might be fun to make something new and then watch the opening ceremonies of the Olympics.

Day, as of the opening ceremonies at Innsbruck this week, has officially become the oldest, most decrepit man in the world who failed to make a team in the Winter Olympics.

And two months out from the Games — an eternity in the attention spans of most U.S. sports fans when it comes to the Winter Olympics — traffic on the USS website has doubled, and U.S. skaters are getting media interest that's usually nonexistent before the opening ceremonies.

From the Opening Ceremony to Michael Phelps in the pool to Gabby Douglas on the beam, we present some of the best photos from the first week of the 2012 Summer Olympics.

I was chosen to be the flag bearer for my country at the opening ceremony at the Rio Olympics!!

The opening ceremony for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia will take place later today, but already we've been berated with questions regarding the gold medal aspirations of the United States.

Less than a week before the opening ceremony of her first Olympics, the story Kim and her family was introduced to American sports fans by way of a commercial during the Super Bowl.

«and it's like the opening ceremony of the Olympics.