With royalty and rock, Britain opens its Olympics

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

By JOHN LEICESTER and ERIN McCLAM

LONDON (AP) - The queen and James Bond gave the London Olympics a royal entrance like no other Friday in an opening ceremony that rolled to the rock of the Beatles, the Stones and The Who.

And the creative genius of Danny Boyle spliced it all together.

Brilliant. Cheeky, too.

The highlight of the Oscar-winning director's $42 million show was pure movie magic, using trickery to make it seem that Britain's beloved 86-year-old Queen Elizabeth II had parachuted into the stadium with the nation's most famous spy.

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The Olympic rings are illuminated with pyrotechnics as they are raised above the stadium during the Opening Ceremony at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 27, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

[Lifelong Protester]

1. Gotta say, I enjoyed what I saw

I am a sucker for the parade of nations, when some place like Andorra is sending like 2 athletes.

[tanyev]

2. I loved that whole sequence of the rings being created and coming together.

[MisterP]

3. why not both?