I remember him for “I Dream of Jeannie”, “Dallas”, and being an anti-smoking zealot.
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.
(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.
I wanted to be Major Nelson when I was a kid. Still do.
Wasn’t Hagman the son of his mother, what’s her name?
“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.