Fri Jul 27 Olympic Stadium, Olympic Park, London, E20 2ST
Sheep, Maypole dancing, a troupe of NHS nurses? With Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle at the helm of a creative team that also includes filmmaker Stephen Daldry, the London 2012 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony was always likely to be both pop-culturally impressive and pleasingly off-the-wall but we admit to being surprised when details of the July 27 ceremony were announced. Along with picnicking families and a village cricket team, livestock - including ten chickens, ten ducks, nine geese, 30 sheep, three cows and two goats - looks set to play a role in Boyle's pastoral vision for the ceremony, which also features real grass, rivers, an oak tree, a model of Glastonbury Tor and giant maypoles topped with a thistle, a leek, a rose and flax. Huge 'clouds' will be suspended above the stadium, one of which will supply rain should the weather fail to deliver a bona fide British atmosphere. Against this backdrop of a giant, surreal, village fête, the action begins with the ringing of a 27-tonne bell (Europe's largest, cast at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, which has been inscribed with a quote from Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' - 'Be not afeard, the isle is full of noises'). Exactly what will unfold during the three-hour ceremony, titled 'Isle of Wonder', is being kept under wraps but we know that things will get livelier - there will be two mosh pits, representing Glastonbury Festival and the Last Night of the Proms, allowing members of the public to get close to the musical action (details of ticket allocation for the mosh pits are to be announced). The 'hour of culture' will be followed by the traditional athletes parade and the raising of the Olympic flag, the lighting of the Olympic cauldron and a firework display. The Queen will be in attendance and Paul McCartney has confirmed that he will close the show.
source: http://www.timeout.com/london/around-town/event/219776/london-2012-olympic-games-opening-ceremony
The petite megastar was filming in Brooklyn when she was clocked by lighting equipment. She wore a neck brace and was dressed in a blue hospital gown.
By Matthew Lysiak AND Corky Siemaszko / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
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Kristin Chenoweth, pictured in April in New York, was injured Wednesday but was seeking treatment at Bellevue Hospital on Thursday.
Actress Kristin Chenoweth got sprung from the hospital Thursday — a day after she was clocked by falling lighting equipment on a Brooklyn soundstage.
“Kristin has been released from the hospital and is home recovering,” her flak, Jill Fritzo, said in a statement. “She thanks everyone for their prayers and well wishes.”
Shortly before being discharged from Bellevue Hospital, Chenoweth was seen in the Intensive Care Unit sporting a neck brace and moving gingerly.
The award-winning actress was seen smiling as she climbed out of bed on her own and — dressed in a blue hospital gown — made it to a chair with the help of a male visitor.
The feisty 43-year-old actress appeared upbeat as they chatted.
Just a day earlier, the blond spitfire was “knocked out cold” on the set of the CBS drama “The Good Wife.”
“A gust of wind blew a lighting silk out of place striking actress Kristin Chenoweth,” the studio said in a statement.
Kristen Chenoweth was carried off on a stretcher Wednesday after a piece of lighting equipment hit her head on the set of 'The Good Wife.' (TMZ)
Lighting silk is fabric used to soften or deflect artificial light or sunlight during shooting.
Paramedics who responded to the Williamsburg studio around 5 p.m. took Chenoweth out strapped to a gurney.
A short time later, “The Good Wife” star Josh Charles was seen racing over to Bellevue to visit his co-star.
Chenoweth, who won a Tony Award for her role in Broadway’s “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” and an Emmy Award for her work on “Pushing Daisies,” has been banged-up before on the job.
In 2006, Chenoweth suffered bumps and bruises when she spilled off the stage during a rehearsal of the Broadway revival “The Apple Tree.”
Last year, Chenoweth also injured her back on the set of “Glee” when she fell down a flight of concrete stairs.
mlysiak@nydailynews.com