light the massive Olympic caldron. The ceremony will be shown on TV Friday night in the United States. The anticipated crowd around the world may make this the most-watched television event ever. The event, directed by Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou, drew on China's history and cultural heritage and displayed it all with high-tech wizardry. Fireworks, a Chinese invention, were set off in great waves, from within the Bird's Nest and from as far away as Tiananmen Square, several miles to the ...