The Hollywood president: Here are the celebs Barack Obama name-drops in his new book
by Christie D'Zurilla, Los Angeles Times
Nov 20, 2020
4 minutes
When he was president, Barack Obama wasn't known for shying away from brushes with fame â and that fact is obvious when you see how many celebrity names he casually drops in "A Promised Land."
Obama's new memoir covers his early political career and his first 2 1/2 years in the White House, closing with the killing of Osama bin Laden in May 2011.
Writing in the new book about the music series he and First Lady Michelle Obama put in place at the White House, he invokes "household names like Stevie Wonder, Jennifer Lopez, and Justin Timberlake but also up-and-comers like Leon Bridges and living legends like B.B. King."
Remembering the 2011 White
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