{"id":4453,"date":"2006-02-12T13:14:09","date_gmt":"2006-02-12T18:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4453"},"modified":"2010-07-14T10:11:17","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T14:11:17","slug":"olympic-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4453","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"

You kind of don’t want to miss Alex’s ruminations on the opening ceremony<\/a>. I actually saw only a little bit of it – I saw the giant ski dude being created by 500 little Italian Oompa-Loompa people, which was pretty amazing. But I was out at David and Maria’s, and we were watching Only Angels Have Wings<\/i> and – as always – Howard Hawks and Cary Grant pretty much take precedent over all else. But I loved Alex saying:<\/p>\n

The lighting of the torch. I have no words. The fact that all those athletes were standing in the same place, some at war with each other, made me sob. Again. Their eyes. The fact of them. The sight of them all in one place. All the work they put into just getting to that place. It just made me weep thinking how hard they all worked, and when that torch was lit and the fireworks went off, their journey had really begun. For some of them it was the last time, and for some of them it was the first time. Amazing. The history was a bit overwhelming. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And then we have Tracey’s brilliant analysis <\/a>– comparing the coverage of the Olympics (as opposed to the events themselves – but the actual COVERAGE) to inexperienced actors over-acting and emoting – because they don’t trust that the audience will “get it” if they don’t over-act.<\/p>\n

But my professor strode up the aisle \u0097 it seemed in one colossal step \u0097 and stood before both of us, eyes blazing: \u0093When you cry and emote and ACT like that, you alienate the audience. You take their feelings away from them because they are too busy watching you SHOW yours. You rob them of something priceless \u0097 the right to decide how to feel. It\u0092s not that you don\u0092t emote,\u0094 he said, \u0093but you don\u0092t beat them about the head with it<\/i>, for God\u0092s sake!\u0094<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Brilliant.<\/p>\n

Go read it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Oh, and by the way, just so I am perfectly clear:<\/p>\n

Yes, the coverage is annoying. Yes, the personal stories are annoying. Yes, the sepia-toned “ooh, I lost my grandma 20 years ago and I feel her looking down on me now” interviews are so sweet that they could give you diabetes just by watching them.<\/p>\n

HOWEVER:<\/p>\n

I love.<\/p>\n

Every.<\/p>\n

Stinkin’.<\/p>\n

Second of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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