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fromSlate Magazine
4 days agoShaun White Taught Us All That the Parade of Nations Is Actually About Shaun White
Shaun White gets a brief, paid NBC broadcast role during the opening ceremony parade to promote himself and his brands.
Turn on your TV, flip over your laptop, look down at your phone - it doesn't matter. There they are. Some of these spots, like magazine covers and Ari's SNL-hosting gig, make perfect sense. This is what actors do when they have a movie to promote. And perhaps none of this would feel so irritating if they weren't always popping up in Wicked-adjacent color schemes. But they do, so here we are.