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Larry Hagman of "Dallas" Dead at 81
Dallas Morning News ^ | November 23, 2012 | Staff

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: braking; chat; dallas; hagman; hollywood; idreamofjeannie; marymartin; nelson; obitary; texas; whoshotjr
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To: wardaddy

>> “well...at least he went out doing what he liked” <<

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Bathing naked with his daughter?
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41 posted on 11/23/2012 8:39:56 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: bigfootbob

He was the best actor on the recent reboot of Dallas.


42 posted on 11/23/2012 8:40:52 PM PST by AU72
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To: Arec Barrwin

I always thought his comedic skills (in “Jeannie”) were top-notch, and he was actually rather underrated.

As a human being, well... I read a long, long interview of him (where he went on endlessly about his dope/alcohol use, and his pursuits of ‘opening his mind’), and he came across as one of the most ridiculously self-absorbed personalities that I could imagine. Very juvenile and stunted mind, incapable of seeing anything beyond himself. Downright cringe-worthy, reading that interview.


43 posted on 11/23/2012 8:43:08 PM PST by greene66
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To: Free Vulcan

“Hagman has been a member of the Peace and Freedom Party since the 1960s.[10] 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”.[11]”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Hagman


44 posted on 11/23/2012 8:44:22 PM PST by Mr Rogers (America is becoming California, and California is becoming Detroit. Detroit is already hell.)
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To: yarddog

>> “I would try to do the same but suspect she would get to me before long.” <<

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Barbara Eden? - I wouldn’t have lasted an hour!

What a dollie.


45 posted on 11/23/2012 8:44:30 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Arec Barrwin; a fool in paradise; Slings and Arrows

It’s really a dream while I was in the shower!


46 posted on 11/23/2012 8:45:17 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: AU72

I wonder if that show will be able to last without him.


47 posted on 11/23/2012 8:46:04 PM PST by Arthurio
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To: Free Vulcan

No, he was a disgusting lefty.


48 posted on 11/23/2012 8:46:11 PM PST by LdSentinal
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To: Arec Barrwin

I found out he was from Weatherford, Tx when I lived in Fort Worth for a few years in the 80s. His mother was Mary Martin who played Peter Pan in the TV version (1960). There’s a statue of her as Peter Pan in downtown Weatherford. Hagman also played an interpreter to President (Fonda) in the movie Fail-Safe (1964).


49 posted on 11/23/2012 8:47:57 PM PST by tang-soo (Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks - Read Daniel Chapter 9)
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To: Arec Barrwin

Jeannie, we're the only two left.

RIP, Tony

50 posted on 11/23/2012 8:49:35 PM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Arec Barrwin; a fool in paradise; Slings and Arrows

It’s really a dream while I was in the shower!


51 posted on 11/23/2012 8:51:17 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Arec Barrwin

I am probably wrong but back in the 60s I was visiting my Sister in Ft. Walton Bch. FL and happened to see two girls in bikinis walk by on the sidewalk.

They were both pretty but one was gorgeous. I still remember her face and figure. Later when Dallas came on I swore that Victoria Principal was the girl I had seen.


52 posted on 11/23/2012 8:51:38 PM PST by yarddog (One shot one miss.)
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To: Arec Barrwin

Was Hagman a commie? Most in Hollywood are.


53 posted on 11/23/2012 8:52:05 PM PST by chessplayer
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To: Bryanw92

As a kid, I loved watching “I Dream of Jeannie”


54 posted on 11/23/2012 8:54:18 PM PST by rlmorel (1793 French Jacobins and 2012 American Liberals have a lot in common.)
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To: Bryanw92

Agreed. RIP, Major Nelson.


55 posted on 11/23/2012 8:56:17 PM PST by ReformationFan
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To: bigfootbob

what’s appropos about 4:20? What’s the story there?


56 posted on 11/23/2012 8:56:43 PM PST by Finalapproach29er (God humbles and (if need be) destroys the false idols of the peoples. Be patient, folks...)
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To: chessplayer

I know Barbara Eden is a major lib. Too bad.


58 posted on 11/23/2012 8:58:37 PM PST by rlmorel (1793 French Jacobins and 2012 American Liberals have a lot in common.)
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To: GeronL

He was on “I Dream of Jeanie”, right??


One of the dumbest shows ever. Ranks up there with Bewitched, McHales Navy, The Munsters, and Hogans Heroes. (like Sgt. Schultz, though)


59 posted on 11/23/2012 8:58:45 PM PST by chessplayer
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To: tang-soo
That's right. Son of Mary Martin, friend of the former mayor of Weatherford (and Speaker of the House) Jim Wright.

But Larry was left of Jim, a liberal of the old Progressive v. Conservative wing of the Texas Democrat one-Party division of the early 1950's.

Wright himself and the radical left of his own latter Party deserve far more credit for the fall of Wright in 1989 than Newt can factually every dream of.

Hagman wasn't nearly as vociferous in his a**holery after getting the new liver. But he was still a loud and proud Molly Ivins-type mocking old Texas lefty.

60 posted on 11/23/2012 8:58:45 PM PST by Prospero
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