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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: SoFloFreeper

So his character bedded just about every woman on that show except for Pam, Miss Ellie, Jenna Wade and Lucy. But at least he never smoked a cigarette afterwards!/sarc.

I’m being sarcastic but that appears to be how liberal minds think.

I also remember reading that both Patrick Duffy and Hagman became Buddhists back in the mid-1980s but I do not know if they remained so.


141 posted on 11/24/2012 6:48:32 AM PST by ReformationFan
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To: Andonius_99; Andy'smom; Antique Gal; Big Guy and Rusty 99; bitt; Barset; Carolinamom; CatQuilt; ...

Howie Carr list ping. I get the feeling Larry Hagman wasn’t in the most recent death pool but who knows? It was known he was ill over past few years and he may have been in past death pools.


142 posted on 11/24/2012 6:57:48 AM PST by raccoonradio
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To: Bobalu

>>astronaut with a hot genie!

Would networks allow a show on today where a woman called a man “Master”... well who knows. And Ms Eden, who expressed her condolences on facebook etc., still looks great


143 posted on 11/24/2012 7:03:04 AM PST by raccoonradio
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To: P.O.E.

Looking at that picture reminded me of one I have on my wall. Barbara Eden visited the place I was employed a few years ago and she posed for a picture with me....very revealling outfit she was wearing and although she had experienced many birthdays since this one was taken, she was still a knockout...it was a nice day, which, alas, don’t happen too often for an old man these days...:))


144 posted on 11/24/2012 7:35:20 AM PST by jennings2004 (Dear Leader's new math: 1(brutalized, dead Ambassador)+2(dead seals)+...= 1(bump in the road))
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To: raccoonradio

Here’s her tribute:

“As I received the news this evening and as you read this I still cannot completely express the shock and impact from the news that Larry Hagman has passed. I can still remember, that first day on Zuma Beach with him, in the frigid cold. From that day for five more years, Larry was the center of so many fun, wild, shocking… and in retrospect, memorable moments that will remain in my heart forever.

“He was such a key element in my life for so long and even, years after I Dream of Jeannie; our paths crossed many times. Throughout various productions I had the pleasure of watching the Texas Tornado that was Larry Hagman. Amidst a whirlwind of big laughs, big smiles and unrestrained personality Larry was always, simply Larry. You couldn’t fault him for it, it was just who he was. I am so thankful that this past year I was able to spend time with him and experience yet again ‘Larry’ in all his Big Texas bravado.

“I, like many others believed he had beat Cancer and yet we are reminded that life is never guaranteed. My deepest condolences go out to his wife Maj, his son and daughter and his grandchildren, as well as his friends in this time of his passing. I can honestly say that we’ve lost not just a great actor, not just a television icon, but an element of pure Americana.

“Goodbye Larry, there was no one like you before and there will never be anyone like you again.”-Barbara Eden


145 posted on 11/24/2012 8:20:11 AM PST by ReformationFan
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To: Arec Barrwin; sauropod

My father was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma in January of 2012. During my dad’s treatment, we learned that Larry Hagman had (apparently) beaten the same cancer, and tried to use his success as an inspirational example.

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.

My father also passed away yesterday, also of “complications” from cancer treatment. He too was surrounded by his children and grandchildren, and his wife of 55 years.

I’d like to think he and Larry got a chance to compare notes.


146 posted on 11/24/2012 8:54:04 AM PST by hellinahandcart
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To: Arec Barrwin

(We) have national obsession with people who make a living pretending to be someone else. (We) express sadness and a sense of loss when they pass on, no longer to see the one denominational images of them on screens except for reruns or watching their old movies.

Yes, he is dead but he will live on in reruns to fulfill the need of his ‘fanatics’ to keep him alive.


147 posted on 11/24/2012 9:33:49 AM PST by RetSignman ("A Republic if you can keep it"....)
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To: Finalapproach29er; vitzy929

In the pot enthusiast world, when you say 4:20 it means time to light up. And it has become slang for pot.

According to urban legend, some kids in California, they called themselves the Waldo’s, not the Choom Gang, used the 4:20 time to meet after school for their pot parties, it stuck, I guess.

Larry Hagman said in an interview once that after Champagne, pot was his next favorite thing. So much so, that he said he wanted his body run thru a chipper and spread out as fertilizer for pot plants. So, for a pot aficionado to die at exactly 4:20 has humor and a wicked irony. The only thing more surreal would have been if Larry died on April 20 @ 4:20!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/20/420-weed-day-marijuana-april-holiday_n_1437964.html


148 posted on 11/24/2012 9:50:18 AM PST by bigfootbob
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To: Prospero

Thanks for the insight.


149 posted on 11/24/2012 10:30:39 AM PST by tang-soo (Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks - Read Daniel Chapter 9)
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To: USARightSide

“He was fortunate to have had Broadway musical star, Mary Martin, for his mother.”

Maybe.

She was 17 when Larry was born. She pretty much abandoned him while she got divorced and chased her incomparable show business career. People always talk about Peter Pan, but what about South Pacific and the Sound of Music? And Annie Get Your Gun and Hello Dolly. Larry was being raised by his father and by boarding schools up to a point. When he did live in the NY area with Mary, he battled with her husband, who was also her manager.

I believe Larry’s successful career was in spite in his famous mother, not because of her.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Martin


150 posted on 11/24/2012 11:59:54 AM PST by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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To: bigfootbob

thanks for the explanation


151 posted on 11/24/2012 12:19:52 PM PST by vitzy929
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To: yarddog; Arec Barrwin
I remember watching him let that gorgeous genie have to live a celibate life. I would try to do the same but suspect she would get to me before long.

If you want a real treat watch the original Pilot episode on Youtube.com:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnGAIB-pxbk

Eden's original genie portrayal was all woman, seductive and overtly promised her master all sorts of sensual pleasures. The scene where his fiance (the General's daughter) drops by and Jeannie comes out of Tony's shower dressed only in one of his white dress shirts is memorable, to say the least!

Too bad they had to tone it down into the silly platonic version that eventually aired as a series. In that Pilot episode Barbara Eden was smokin' hot!

152 posted on 11/24/2012 12:54:03 PM PST by tarheelswamprat
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To: Arec Barrwin

I wanted to be Major Nelson when I was a kid. Still do.


153 posted on 11/24/2012 1:08:10 PM PST by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: Vanders9

Hadn’t heard about the throat surgery - not remembering, anyway.

Well, I guess the not speaking 1 day a week is
on the less kooky side of strange things people do.
Maybe Hagman wasn’t in public much on Saturdays. . .


154 posted on 11/24/2012 2:02:34 PM PST by USARightSide (S U P P O R T I N G OUR T R O O P S)
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To: editor-surveyor

No his new show


155 posted on 11/24/2012 2:15:20 PM PST by wardaddy (wanna know how my kin felt during Reconstruction in Mississippi, you fixin to find out firsthand)
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To: DainBramage

‘________mowing a cemetery_____’

That’s some honest work for a kid’s summer job!

I realize many want to be placed near ‘home’ upon death, but was surprised to hear Mary Martin is resting so far from the ‘limelight,’ say, of a Forest Lawn, or some such, where the public could more easily pay their respects . . .
Guess one can visit while passing thru Weatherford.


156 posted on 11/24/2012 2:35:45 PM PST by USARightSide (S U P P O R T I N G OUR T R O O P S)
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To: Captain Jack Aubrey

Don’t believe I gave credit to MM for her son’s famous career; and perhaps that’s not what you meant. (Writing is so one dimensional - - )
I think most people didn’t even realize who his mother was.
And of course I meant how ‘lucky’ to have had such a talented mother.

The picture you paint of Hagman’s upbringing - wonder why I am surprised - however, guess this has been more often than not, the background and upbringing of so many ‘famous’ people.


157 posted on 11/24/2012 2:51:12 PM PST by USARightSide (S U P P O R T I N G OUR T R O O P S)
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To: yarddog

Yeah that Mary Crosby she shot JR LOL!


158 posted on 11/24/2012 4:04:50 PM PST by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: yarddog

Yeah that Mary Crosby she shot JR LOL!


159 posted on 11/24/2012 4:04:57 PM PST by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: Arec Barrwin

Wasn’t Hagman the son of his mother, what’s her name?


160 posted on 11/24/2012 4:09:22 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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