This is a good place to drop general and weird news, entertainment, and general show prep material that might be interesting to air talent or producers. Hot dog threads ALWAYS welcome.
This story has really been making the rounds. It's about a Russian ice skating team that made high marks in their program yesterday, using an Australian Aboriginal theme. The Aboriginals are raising hell. What I find interesting is that the Russians are training in Aston Pa.
TALLINN, Estonia — Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin of Russia are the reigning world ice dancing champions and favorites for the gold medal at next month’s Winter Olympics. But their original dance, performed to an aboriginal theme, is generating anger in the middle of the Australian summer, with the aboriginal elder Sol Bellear calling the dance “very offensive.”
