ICE CUBE: Rodney King’s additional 15 minutes

POSTED: Thursday, June 21, 2012, 1:00 PM

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The death of someone you know, love or just read about is always a good opportunity to promote oneself. You can make yourself look humble or sympathetic while staying on PR point. That’s what our old pal Damon Feldman has done to an extent with the still-being-investigated passage of Rodney King. Now, for the record, Feldman wouldn’t be the only person in history to do as much — more than a few members of the Jackson family found time to promote themselves during Michael Jackson’s post-mortem. Feldman, the promoter/curator of Celebrity Boxing (pillows, oversized gloves), apparently was the one of the last people to have spoken to the legendary beating victim on Saturday afternoon. Feldman told TMZ that King was in a good mood (reportedly King was drinking and smoking weed that day so perhaps that accounts for his high spirits) and how the pair were to discuss another celebrity bout with baseball-er Jose Canseco that would be announced during a June 29 press conference. King has fought for Feldman on several occasions and wound up befriending the local promoter.

Since the time of King’s death, he has appeared on cable news outlets talking about his bud. But without missing a beat, Feldman has gone into full promotion mode on his next big project — a wishful grudge match with Damon Feldman offering Drake and Chris Brown three one-minute rounds to settle their beef. (Damon has sent out notes for a potential date if Drake and Brown take him up on the cash offer, Sat., Aug. 25, at Los Angeles’ Staples Center). Then there’s Feldman’s June 22/23 bout starring Octomom (who has troubles of her own this week, keeping a house) battling someone named Shelia from Wired 96.5’s morning show and Michael “Lindsay’s dad” Lohan as the event’s referee. While the fight occurs this Saturday in King of Prussia, a press conference featuring Lohan and Octo takes places at the Fox & the Hound in the same neighborhood. Since Feldman and Lohan have pillow fought in the past it’s all good clean fun even if you do feel grimy just by knowing this goes on.

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