2014-07-22 13:56
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Kobe Bryant is thinking about his heritage.
Not to mention his advertising.
Bryant, who arrived late for his session Friday at the Television Critics Association, joking, "I was outside searching for a head coach," said the thought for a movie "about who or what's inspired me" developed out of his lying in bed one night, thinking of, "What's likely to be the next Nike campaign and what the narrative's going to be." (It was his wife, Vanessa, who provided the word "muse," he said.)
Gotham Chopra, the filmmaker son of Deepak Chopra, theme of his documentary "Decoding Deepak," is filming Bryant for nearly annually. Both are listed as executive producers, but when I asked Bryant about the credit, which suggests that this won't exactly be a warts-and-all treatment, he said, "I am not even quite sure what producer even means. . . . I kind of turn it over to Gotham and let him shoot. And kind of the general vision of the story wil simply click the next website. be to find a way to follow the journey of the [2013 Achilles tendon] Harm https://www.cheapbuyblazer.com/2014-new-nike-dunk-high-bleusky-bleu.html. the internal struggle, the inspiration that comes from that."
He added that "if you can find negative things, there are negative things. After all, it will not be the first time something negative has come out about me. It will not be the last. And Gotham'm comfortable with that."
Afterward, as publicists tried to dash Bryant offstage, I asked him about another facet of his legacy, his 2013 dispute with his mother, Pamela, who had auctioned off some of her son's sports memorabilia. (Both eventually apologized publicly to him.)
"That's a long narrative that really feeds into what happens with the athlete's advancement and what happens to individuals around him and how an athlete subsequently manages that," he explained.
"I have learned a lot from this situation," he said. "It's a very, very, very rough position for every one of us and it is more complicated than it seems."
Therefore, it was not merely a case of a son that is grown not cleaning his cabinet and his mother of his stuff out?
"Regrettably, no," Bryant said, as he was eventually pulled away from reporters.
Final 'Breaking' news
For the second year in a row, AMC's "Breaking Bad" is the Television Critics Association's program of the year.
In a Saturday night ceremony at the Beverly Hilton hosted by "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" star Terry Crews (who serenaded the critics with Miss Piggy), "Breaking Bad" originator Vince Gilligan and star Bryan Cranston brought a final bow, with Cranston noting this would have to function as the last of the show's many appearances at the TCA awards unless the group added a classification for "newly departed show."
"True Detective" star Matthew McConaughey additionally picked up an award for individual achievement in drama, noting the group Nike Air Jordan PPT ER.was "non-sex specific" and that fellow nominees comprised Julianna Margulies ("The Good Wife") and Tatiana Maslany ("Orphan Black"), together with Matthew Rhys ("The Americans") and Cranston.
FX's "Louie" and HBO's "Veep" connected for outstanding comedy, with "Veep" star Julia Louis-Dreyfus also singled out for individual achievement in comedy.
NBC's "Saturday Night Live" received TCA's Heritage Award, which was taken by the show's head writer and "Weekend Update" co host, Colin Jost.
Producer, writer and director James Burrows received a career achievement award, noting that critics helped keep "Cheers" alive long enough to find an audience.
