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本帖最后由 lilyma06 于 2012-1-10 15:30 编辑
A Song and Dance in China?
Rumor That Buffett Would Sing in the New Year Appears to Be Unfounded
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203436904577151163286937318.html
BEIJING—In China, Warren Buffett apparently isn't about to give anything away for a song.
Mr. Buffett has recorded a greeting that will appear on the website of China's annual Chinese New Year show later this month, according to organizers. But contrary to earlier reports, the greeting won't include a song, said Wu Zheng, co-chairman of Sun Media Investment Holding Ltd., a Chinese media company, and the person who connected the U.S. billionaire with the show's Chinese producers.
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Reuters Warren Buffett exercised his vocal chords at the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting in 2010, where he sang "I've Been Working on the Railroad."
That is at odds with what Wang Pingjiu, a production executive for the broadcast, told a news conference on Thursday. In his statement, which was repeated by the state-run Xinhua news agency, Mr. Wang said Mr. Buffett would sing a song and play guitar in the online version of this year's Spring Festival gala. "We all know that Buffett is good at investment, but few knew he also did well in singing," Mr. Wang said, according to Xinhua.
The statement was broadly picked up by foreign media. It also set off a strong reaction on China's Sina Weibo microblogging service because Mr. Buffett is well-known in increasingly wealthy China, which prizes investment know-how.
The story appeared consistent with Mr. Buffett's previous behavior. The billionaire has long been known to sing in public, including a cameo turn as '80s rocker Axl Rose in a 2010 video made by Geico Corp., the insurer owned by his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. investment vehicle. Mr. Buffett also is no stranger to the Chinese Internet, having once lauded a Chinese suit maker in a video posted on its website.
But Xinhua's report raised a few questions among Buffett watchers.
For one, Mr. Buffett is a ukulele enthusiast but doesn't appear to play guitar. Mr. Wang also declined to offer specifics on Mr. Buffett's appearance, including whether it would also appear on the Spring Festival television special, a four- to five-hour series of songs and skits produced by the state broadcaster that is watched by 700 million people in China and might be the world's most-viewed TV show.
Mr. Wang said on Friday that he worked with Sun Media's Mr. Wu to reach Mr. Buffett. In an interview, Mr. Wu said he had indeed worked through Buffett family members to get hold of a video of Mr. Buffett wishing Chinese viewers a happy Chinese New Year. He also said he offered to the gala's producers a video of Mr. Buffett's son, Peter, who plays piano.
Mr. Wu then planned to mix in a video Mr. Buffett recorded a year earlier for a charity the Chinese executive is involved with, the Sun Culture Foundation.
In that video, which was shown at a charity ball in Beijing in January 2011, Mr. Buffett reportedly sang and played the ukulele to "I've Been Working on the Railroad." But Mr. Wu said Mr. Buffett objected when he found out the singing video would be featured in the New Year's greeting. Mr. Wu said he acceded to Mr. Buffett's request and pulled it.
Mr. Wu says he still expects the online version of the gala will play Mr. Buffett's Chinese New Year greeting. "Mr. Buffett's New Year's greeting is great," he said.
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