>>Another reason why I think that China shouldn't have got the Olympics in the first place:
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080812/ap_on_re_as/oly_china_lip_synched_song>
>Not nice, but then again it's not like this kind of fakery is unique to China.
Yeah, Marnie Nixon mercifully sang for Audrey Hepburn because they wouldn't use "unknown" Julie Andrews for the movie version of My Fair Lady.
And they made the movie of Man of LaMancha with Richard Harris and Sophia Loren instead of the OBC of Richard Kiley and Joanne Diner.
don't get me started ...
Oh, and Will Patton didn't read the audiobook for Jolie LeBlond's Bounce
Aw heck, all the little Chinese kids look alike - go with the pretty one ...
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