Did the Beijing Opening Ceremony Finally Make Opening Ceremonies Cool Again?

Before this year’s Olympics began, we heard a lot of friends and online commentators complaining about the Games, and particularly about opening ceremonies, which have often been stupid and were memorably called “totalitarian gay pride parades� by Gawker. We tended to skip opening ceremonies ourselves, because they always just seem so lame and pageanty. But then Friday’s opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics was seen by the largest audience ever in the U.S. for a foreign-set opening ceremony. And guess what? It was fucking amazing. We’ve never seen anything like it.

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