Abishai100
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Kobe Bryant (famed and retired championship-winning NBA player with the Los Angeles Lakers) was honoured at the Oscar 2018 awards, when the animated-film he was involved with Dear Basketball (inspired by a poem he wrote!) won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
Bryant was involved in a controversial sexual assault case in 2003 which was eventually forgotten, but his award stirred up chats about celebrities involved in media-scandals being 'forgiven' by continuing fame-related honors (such as Oscars!). This is during a time when a slew of allegations regarding sexual harassment accusations have been flying around the media industry (e.g., Harvey Weinstein --- producer of the Scorsese/DiCaprio film Gangs of New York).
So should this age of media make us more 'critical' of celebrities in the spotlight?
Does this feel...Christian?
Anyone a fan of Don King: Only in America?
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Here's a photo of Kobe Bryant at a media-event co-sponsored by Variety and Mercedes-Benz.
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Celebrity photos make the Oscars a terrific media-PR experience...and we Americans eat it up with a spoon(!).
![ba1.jpg ba1.jpg](https://www.usmessageboard.com/data/attachments/172/172525-daef5151c21c34fe61ccd55252a608b4.jpg)
Here's actor Jamie Foxx at last night's Mercedes Benz Oscar after-party(!). Foxx was in the sports-industry (NFL) film Any Given Sunday co-starring Al Pacino.
![wa5.jpg wa5.jpg](https://www.usmessageboard.com/data/attachments/172/172526-1043c209c99090e847a145e68fbc1f5c.jpg)
Bust out the champagne! After all, the provocative if under-valued Ridley Scott sci-fi horror-film Alien: Covenant premiered on HBO during this Oscar weekend. Olympians also attended the Oscars and the Oscars after-parties (since the Trump Administration was able to negotiate valuable commerce-pacts with South Korea and 'oversee' civil relations between North and South Korea heading into the Winter Games this February in PeyongChang!).
![wa7.jpg wa7.jpg](https://www.usmessageboard.com/data/attachments/172/172527-0bbdbd82f41eb0b0de91ac2c67849f07.jpg)
After all, we all like seeing Hollywood (USA) 'super-celebrity' Tom Cruise in his celebrated sports-industry films --- All the Right Moves (high school football), Days of Thunder (NASCAR), and Jerry Maguire (sports-agent culture).
![06.jpg 06.jpg](https://www.usmessageboard.com/data/attachments/172/172528-ee4dbda5985c5497df95b7ac8446fbee.jpg)
This summer, if you're out BBQing in your backyard, celebrating the awesome underdog-victory of the Philadelphia Eagles (NFL) over the seemingly-indomitable New England Patriots in Super Bowl 52, you might consider how pluralism-politics and democracy-intrigue (under 'TrumpUSA') makes you 'pensive' about 'marketing-consciousness' in a capitalism society(!).
GOD BLESS AMERICA! (?)
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![dance :dance: :dance:](/styles/smilies/dance.gif)
Bryant was involved in a controversial sexual assault case in 2003 which was eventually forgotten, but his award stirred up chats about celebrities involved in media-scandals being 'forgiven' by continuing fame-related honors (such as Oscars!). This is during a time when a slew of allegations regarding sexual harassment accusations have been flying around the media industry (e.g., Harvey Weinstein --- producer of the Scorsese/DiCaprio film Gangs of New York).
So should this age of media make us more 'critical' of celebrities in the spotlight?
Does this feel...Christian?
Anyone a fan of Don King: Only in America?
====
Here's a photo of Kobe Bryant at a media-event co-sponsored by Variety and Mercedes-Benz.
![wa4.jpg wa4.jpg](https://www.usmessageboard.com/data/attachments/172/172524-f56e2c148b3ec33392d63fa0bba3d2f7.jpg)
Celebrity photos make the Oscars a terrific media-PR experience...and we Americans eat it up with a spoon(!).
![ba1.jpg ba1.jpg](https://www.usmessageboard.com/data/attachments/172/172525-daef5151c21c34fe61ccd55252a608b4.jpg)
Here's actor Jamie Foxx at last night's Mercedes Benz Oscar after-party(!). Foxx was in the sports-industry (NFL) film Any Given Sunday co-starring Al Pacino.
![wa5.jpg wa5.jpg](https://www.usmessageboard.com/data/attachments/172/172526-1043c209c99090e847a145e68fbc1f5c.jpg)
Bust out the champagne! After all, the provocative if under-valued Ridley Scott sci-fi horror-film Alien: Covenant premiered on HBO during this Oscar weekend. Olympians also attended the Oscars and the Oscars after-parties (since the Trump Administration was able to negotiate valuable commerce-pacts with South Korea and 'oversee' civil relations between North and South Korea heading into the Winter Games this February in PeyongChang!).
![wa7.jpg wa7.jpg](https://www.usmessageboard.com/data/attachments/172/172527-0bbdbd82f41eb0b0de91ac2c67849f07.jpg)
After all, we all like seeing Hollywood (USA) 'super-celebrity' Tom Cruise in his celebrated sports-industry films --- All the Right Moves (high school football), Days of Thunder (NASCAR), and Jerry Maguire (sports-agent culture).
![06.jpg 06.jpg](https://www.usmessageboard.com/data/attachments/172/172528-ee4dbda5985c5497df95b7ac8446fbee.jpg)
This summer, if you're out BBQing in your backyard, celebrating the awesome underdog-victory of the Philadelphia Eagles (NFL) over the seemingly-indomitable New England Patriots in Super Bowl 52, you might consider how pluralism-politics and democracy-intrigue (under 'TrumpUSA') makes you 'pensive' about 'marketing-consciousness' in a capitalism society(!).
GOD BLESS AMERICA! (?)
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![dance :dance: :dance:](/styles/smilies/dance.gif)