Was That Milli Vanilli at the Beijing Olympics?
Was Milli Vanilli performing in spirit at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics? Girl, you know it’s true… If given a choice when selecting talent, do you go with skills and aptitude or are you more apt to select the prettiest face? Right – you go with the skills, because you’re a knowledgeable broker of talent, immune to the discreet laws of attraction. Plus, you’ve got that personal code of ethics thing going for you. Well done. Now, imagine you’re the program director for a major event that will be televised to a billion people. You’ve let your team handle a lot of the talent selection that includes 14,000+ performers. You get to the day before the big event, and discover that Billy, in music casting, has a crooked-toothed kid in the lead role. What do you do? Fire Billy, then go get a more attractive stand-in if you are part of the Chinese Olympics. From the Times Online (UK): She warmed more than a billion hearts with her sweet and pure rendition of one of China’s favorit
