Posted on 12/28/2013 7:33:50 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
A stir in the upscale restaurant at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills was evident as soon as the men with the forest-thick beards and camouflage gear entered, accompanied by wife, kids and entourage.
The group instantly seemed out of place among the lunchtime crowd of sharply attired patrons, many in suits and ties.
But it was immediately clear that more than a few of the customers recognized them as the Robertsons of A&E's "Duck Dynasty."
It was late February, more than nine months before "Duck Dynasty" became the lightning rod for one of the year's most contentious TV controversies. At the time, the Robertsons were in the midst of a whirlwind promotional tour for the launch of the show's third season.
The family had just finished a photo session on the hotel's rooftop for an article scheduled for the Sunday Calendar section of the Los Angeles Times. Minutes later, there were sitting down with a reporter -- me -- who was seated at the head of a long table, poised to ask the most popular family on television about life, fame and duck hunting as they ate.
Not the best or most comfortable situation for an interview, but it was the best that could be done on their tight schedule, which included an appearance later that day on "Jimmy Kimmel Live."
Of the hundreds of people I have interviewed this year, I am most often asked about the Robertsons: "What are they really like?" "Did they really dress that way?" "Did you like them?"(continued)
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Before picture resembles Stoick the Vast. After, not so much.
You did commercials?
Kewel...
Sitting in the lobby bar, Dom DeLuise started loudly prancing through the area and our visitor asked me, "Who the f*ck-all is THAT faggot?"
Hundred years ago.
Weren’t he, Jim Nabors, Burt Reynolds and Rock Hudson some kind of tag team?
I’m more impressed by the individuals than by the tv show. What’s really fascinating is that they are so successful on their own that they could walk away from the notoriety in a heartbeat and never look back-the kind of people that liberals despise.
When we moved from California to Texas eight years ago, I had to lop off the ponytail for business reasons. Folks out here warm right up to a contractor with a military cut - not so much to those with shoulder length locks.
My wife put it up in a braid and chopped it off. Put it in her keepsake box, and off we went to the barber. It’s been clipped close ever since, but she still wishes I could grow it back out.
The one thing she wouldn’t budge on was my facial hair. She agreed to let me crop it close, but clean shaven would probably be grounds for divorce.
I'm from L.A. Spent most of five decades there, but after living in Texas for eight years, the place now creeps me out. Completely.
I love when Willie coined that term when getting ejected from the NY hotel.
There it is. There was no reason it should have been except as a set up to cause all the uproar.
Bingo.
I wish they’d adopt me!
I had a friend, white like rice, his parents had funny accents, he was born in south africa, he was naturalized here, so he would joke that he was African-American.
That place is a few blocks from me. Can you say, “Lots of local industry Liberals”?
They would be talking about them behind the back with a few conservatives among the group thinking “Good for them”.
Lots of posers; speaking of which, the President always stays there and blocks the traffic while begging the rich for campaign dollars.
He certainly had more justification in calling himself that than some Domestic Black Savage.
Aha! The Jazz look.
Tenor Sax by chance?
What the lobster said.
But in this one he talks about having a white dad and black mom he was called “mixed”. So he was all exited to come to America so he could be “black”. Of course he speaks English with a very formal English diction.
So he meets a black guy that introduces himself as Kamokila, his friend Dashome, and his girlfriend Ladasha. “You know - names that tie us back to our African roots. What's your name brother?”
“Um. Trevor.”
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