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NBA hopeful Kobe Bryant, pop star Brandy put cameras in overdrive at Lower Merion prom | From the archives

You call this a normal date?

Kobe Bryant and singer/actress Brandy Norwood arrived at the Bellevue Hotel in Center City Philadelphia for the Lower Merion High School prom in May 1996. The pulled up in a white stretch limo. "There was a certain sense of fame," recalled classmate Stacy Moscotti Moore. "Even trying to be normal, still it was like, wow. There are famous people over there, and there's the security detail."
Kobe Bryant and singer/actress Brandy Norwood arrived at the Bellevue Hotel in Center City Philadelphia for the Lower Merion High School prom in May 1996. The pulled up in a white stretch limo. "There was a certain sense of fame," recalled classmate Stacy Moscotti Moore. "Even trying to be normal, still it was like, wow. There are famous people over there, and there's the security detail."Read moreCharles Fox / Staff Photographer