RIP Larry Hagman

[lizards2]

R.I.P.

I Dream of Jeannie was and still is a classic

 

I was young and it was more like I Wet Dream of Jeannie.....,

[r100comics]

 

J.R. Ewing was probably the greatest ever TV villain.

 

I don't understand the lack of love here, but Dallas was massive in the UK back in the day and I remember watching and enjoying it with the whole family.

 

R.I.P. to a great and charismatic actor.

 

[Mister_Comics]

Anyone remember him in the 1st Superman movie? He played the Captain of the rocket escort. He got to revive Ms. Tesmocker while Ottos changed the rocket target. Damn he got all the hot babes on film. Lucky stiff.

[goldust40]

J.R. Ewing was probably the greatest ever TV villain.

 

I don't understand the lack of love here, but Dallas was massive in the UK back in the day and I remember watching and enjoying it with the whole family.

 

R.I.P. to a great and charismatic actor.

 

Anyone remember his brilliant turn as a ruthless rock band manager in the David Essex movie, Stardust, made in the early ' 70s? Definitely the prototype for J.R.

 

As you say, he'll be much missed on this side of the pond. I watched Dallas occasionally mainly because he was in it.

[rodan57]

J.R. was such a despicable character that, in the past, I had mistakenly transfered my opinion of Ewing to Hagman, the man. J.R. had really wiped out any memories of Hagman as Tony Nelson.

 

In real life though, Hagman had the reputation of being quite a gentleman (though a hard drinker and smoker in his younger life).

 

A couple years ago, Hagman was in Toronto for a comicon. I was lined up to get an autograph from Lee Majors. Majors was several tables down from Mission Impossible and Ed Wood star, Martin Landau.

 

Landau was in his early eighties and quite frail. When Landau got up from his table and headed to a nearby exit, he relied heavily on his cane to walk. Hagman was at another table between Majors and Landau. As he saw Landau very slowly making his way out, Hagman left his table, took Landau gently by the arm and help to escort him out of the hall.

 

Mark Evanier in his blog has a fine story of Hagman. Newsfromme

[comicnoir]

My first job out of art school was at a T-shirt company where I designed a "Who Shot J.R.?" t-shirt. It was cheezy and I was a kid, but I loved Larry Hagman in the show. He had such a twinkle in his eye as he stuck the knife in.

[ashsaytr]

RIP~

[Mayor006]

I was lucky enough to get a front row seat for the I Dream of Jeanie panel at Dragon Con a couple years back. Got some great pictures of the entire cast. Definitely a loss...RIP

[Calamerica]

Mr. Hagman played a despicable character in " Mother Jugs, and Speed".

 

Mr.Hagman has this Estate in Ojai, CA - about 20 miles from me, and the Road is gated when you get within 500 feet of his Estate. Has about 25 staff there year-round; a few of them has played at the Casino on occasion.

 

His Estate was Solar Powered, and it made the news.

 

I also sold the last copy of Ojai Magazine earlier this year, with Hagman on the cover. I still have the John Lennon, Dave Mason, Jack Nicholson, Magic Johnson and many others in back-issues, but the Larry Hagman was the most requested.

 

I liked Hagman in " I Dream of Jeannie"( Barbara Eden was a TEN - not open for discussion/debates), and there was so much "buzz" with " Who shot JR"? it held the nation captive until that next episode.

 

The Jeffersons did that spoof " Who shot G.R( meaning George Jefferson)" with that one-second jump-cut of Sherman Hemsley falling backwards and that show was hilarious!

 

Larry Hagman made an appearance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, and Carson leans over the prop-desk and says: " I don't care about the Election( Clinton vs. G.H.W. Bush), but do tell me, WHO SHOT JR?" and there was about 3 minutes of solid laughter.

 

I can't really profess to know of anyone that worked on that Set or Production of Dallas, but I did hear in class once about a year ago that Hagman was allowed to "improvise" the character of JR, and that was an example of the writers' "rewrites' for Scripts that the Network producers have to have as they have tighter deadlines than any other broadcast meduim.

 

RIP Larry Hagman and see you again someday!

[Underground44]

J.R. Ewing was probably the greatest ever TV villain.

 

I don't understand the lack of love here, but Dallas was massive in the UK back in the day and I remember watching and enjoying it with the whole family.

 

R.I.P. to a great and charismatic actor.

 

I don't think it's lack of love at all. I'm a 40yo and I was way to young to get into that sort of drama when I was a kid.