Posted on 11/23/2012 8:05:46 PM PST by Arec Barrwin
Actor Larry Hagman, notorious and beloved as 'Dallas' villain J.R. Ewing, dies
From staff reports
Larry Hagman, the North Texas native who played the conniving and mischievous J.R. Ewing on the TV show Dallas, died Friday at a Dallas hospital. He was 81.
Mr. Hagman died at 4:20 p.m. Friday at Medical City Dallas Hospital from complications of his recent battle with cancer, members of his family said.
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So sorry about your loss.
I’m sorry! :-0 I understand, believe me! I can hardly stand to watch the news much anymore (other than a few minutes of FOX) I still like “Fox News”, but even they get irritating! However, they are the only ones I can stand to watch when I do!
Aww..God bless your Dad, and give him rest! (Mr. Hagman of course, too!) God bless you and your family too!
“Dad did eventually beat the cancer, but the cancer treatment beat him. He was only a shadow of his former self afterward. I was actually resentful when I saw Larry Hagman back on TV over the summer, while my father was declining. I am repenting for that attitude today.”
You were resentful while watching your dad decline, while LH was able to be in a TV show? That is totally understandable, and very much human. We all come short, at times.
Frankly, I watched the show, and it appeared to me that he wasn’t healthy at that time.
I’m so sorry for your loss. I’ve experienced the pain, and also have experienced the passing of my dad while I was able to be there and help my mother care for him at home.
The biggest blessing in my life was to be with them during his last days, and the fact that he passed while in his bedroom of the last 45 years.
I hope you will, eventually, feel that being with him, and having his family around him, was a blessing for you, as well.
Mary Martin...aka...Tinkerbell.
Then South Pacific.
And, Broadway.
“Mary Martin...aka...Tinkerbell.”
Oops!
She was Peter Pan!
JR flew off to a secret location leaving jr. in charge. I figured that scene was put in because Larry wasn't coming back.
The notion that he sat powerless in a nursing home for years was laughable. However the storyline was improving.
Genie was great.
I have been completely news free since before the election, did not even watch the returns. Good for the soul. I do listen to Rush and Levin.
HIs mother was Mary Martin/Peter Pan. SO....
I understand Larry was a liberal, but he had a brother, Gary Hagman, not Gary Ewing, who ran for the Texas State Senate as a Republican, probably in the 1980s.
LOL! He looks like Tom Brady.
doubtful: from wikipedia: “Hagman derided President George W. Bush, a fellow Texan, before the Iraq War. At a signing for his book he described Bush as “A sad figure, not too well educated, who doesn’t get out of America much. He’s leading the country towards fascism”.[23]”
and he was for alternate energy to the tune of Ed Begley, Jr.: “In a 2007 interview, Hagman talked about how he was a major proponent of alternative energy.[30] On an episode of Living With Ed, Hagman and his wife showed actor Ed Begley, Jr. their solar powered, super energy efficient home and talked about their green lifestyle. In early 2010, the couple put their 43-acre Ojai estate (called “Heaven”, which they purchased in 1991) up for sale; it was valued at $9.5 million.[31]”
Sad to read that his mother, Mary Martin (a.k.a. Peter Pan) dumped him and his father for her career...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Hagman
he was a heavy drinker, probably part of the reason for his tantrums..alcoholics are very self-obsessed.
Mary Martin, disappointing to read that she ditched little Larry and her husband to have a career, Larry lived with his grandparents repeatedly whilst Mommy was out becoming a star:
“In an odd twist of fate, Martin’s dance studio was burned down by a local man who thought what she was teaching was sinful. At this time, her father encouraged her to end her marriage, saying she was too young, and Martin left for Hollywood, leaving her husband and son Larry behind.”
http://www.biography.com/people/mary-martin-9400684
yep..Mary Crosby played Kristin
Pot smoker lingo: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071114204334AAJHEQh
The Origin Revealed
According to Steven Hager, editor of High Times, the term 420 originated at San Rafael High School, in 1971, among a group of about a dozen pot-smoking wiseacres who called themselves the Waldos, who are now pushing 50. The term was shorthand for the time of day the group would meet, at the campus statue of Louis Pasteur, to smoke pot. Intent on developing their own discreet language, they made 420 code for a time to get high, and its use spread among members of an entire generation. While our teens feel that they know something we don’t, you can let them in on the fact that it was your generation that came up with the numbers.
A quote from one of the Waldos in the High Times article states, “We did discover we could talk about getting high in front of our parents without them knowing by using the phrase 420.” your teenagers will not have that same option.
So sorry for your loss, may your dear father rest in peace. (taking care of my mother, end stages of COPD & emphysema)
“I Dream of Jeannie” was quite possibly my most favorite TV show growing up. (at least in the top 3) Hence, I will remember him most for that role. His Major Nelson “funny-nice-guy” character was too firmly embedded in my brain to ever allow his “JR” character to be really “believable.” That’s a dilemma of his own success as a good actor :((
As far as his political views, I just found out now what they apparently were and that’s the way it should be. If actors & entertainers in general would keep their politics, religion & and sexual orientations out of their audience’s & the public’s faces, the world would be a much better place, IMO.
RIP, Mr. Larry Hagman...you shall be missed by this “old”
fan :((
Dallas without JR Ewing is not the same.
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