Everyone has thrown in their two cents about Lamar and Khloe.  There’s the prenup/financial take, the ‘moving too fast’ take, etc.  Recently I was at a professional event that gave me a mini-epiphany about things like this.  So I’ll play the ‘Devil’s Advocate/Hollywood’ take…

Like I said, this was a semi-professional gathering.  You could dress however you wanted.  Business casual for me these days means open collared shirt, hint of cologne, blue jeans and Florsheims: the ‘black Clooney’ as my homeboy calls it.  One other brother showed up to this soiree: he wasn’t less stylish than me, just different: newsboy cap, striped sweater, knapsack: Black Preppie.  I was reminded of the Chris Rock joke, brothers know when we want to be taken seriously, we have to clean up.  That’s just how it goes. 

15 guys total, 14 women.  The final lady showed up, white girl, and she was…STUNNING.  Had to be an actress, that’s how pretty she was.  She grabbed every guy’s attention, but who grabbed hers?  The twelve white guys in the room could be broken down into two categories.  Half were cut from the Steve Carell/Owen Wilson prototype: nice guy, Everyman types.  The other half were Seth Rogen/Will Ferrell types: oversize personalities, frat boys, ‘the man-child’.  And Black Preppie and Black Clooney.

Black Preppie, bless his heart, must have knocked over three Owen Wilsons to introduce himself to the Stunner.  She was polite to him, but it was clear he came on WAY too strong.  She looked in my direction.  I smiled, she smiled back and came my way and

Things operate differently in L.A.  When I heard about Lamar and Khloe, I was amused and just said, “L.A.”  Some of you love it, some of you hate it, but after awhile nothing in this town comes as a complete shocker.  Lamar’s dated (famous) sisters, so he’s not one of those brothers who refuses to date his own kind (as I suspect Black Preppie may have been).  Between the Clippers and Lakers (and the NBA general), Lamar is known, so you have to expect he’s probably spent as much time being approached as he’s ever spent ‘looking’ for somebody (and I think that’s what happened with Khloe, just my opinion).  The true comedy to me is that the training camp after his first post Shaq title, Kobe was in the background as Lamar and Ron Artest were the centers of attention.  He says he’s cool with it for now. 

Anyway, come on people, EVERY Hollywood marriage of the past five to ten years has been considered suspect in some form or fashion hasn’t it?  Let’s just wait and see what happens before we start predicting doom and gloom for someone else’s marriage.