Did Anne Hidalgo crib notes from Taylor Swift? The ambitious mayor of Paris has taken all sorts of flack for her theatrical, grandiose approach to the Summer Olympics. But as the Games round into their second week, who’s laughing now?
Some of the most expensive Olympic Games in history are also shaping up to be the most magnificent. It takes a free spirit and an iron will to say: So what if it rains? Let’s hoist Celine Dion onto the edge of the Eiffel Tower, dangle dancers from a rooftop—by chains—and plop a medalist from Mauritius on a glorified canoe. Génial!
