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The Spectacle Blog
Actor Larry Hagman passed away last night of complications from throat cancer. He was 81.
The son of actress Mary Martin, Hagman gained fame in his own right in the mid-1960s co-starring with Barbara Eden on I Dream of Jeannie which aired on NBC.
But Hagman was, of course, best known for playing J.R. Ewing on the long running CBS series Dallas. Hagman reached the height of his fame in 1980 after J.R. was shot at the end of the third season which prompted the question, “Who Shot J.R.?” not just in America, but all over the world. The first episode of the fourth season was the highest rated TV program in history until the airing of the final episode of M*A*S*H in 1983. Dallas remained on the air until 1991. Hagman reprised the role of J.R. Ewing earlier this year in the relaunching of Dallas on TNT.
A longtime member of the far-left Peace and Freedom Party, Hagman made headlines in 2003 when he criticized President George W. Bush shortly before the beginning of the War in Iraq. He claimed that Bush was “a sad figure: not too well educated, who doesn’t get out of America much. He’s leading the country towards fascism.”
Unlike J.R. Ewing, Hagman was a big fan (and consumer) of solar power. Here he is in an off-color advertisement for a German solar company.
Cobalt| 11.24.12 @ 8:24AM
Larry Hagman had a prolific career as an actor.
It's a shame that for many years, Hagman chose not to take better care of his body.
Unlike Hagman, David Crosby just seems to "take a licking and keep on ticking." Some critics question if people like Crosby, Gregg Allman, Evil Knievel, and even Hagman should be given liver transplants?
Bob Grant| 11.24.12 @ 9:43AM
" Some critics question if people like... should be given liver transplants?"
Under obamacare the point will be moot. The Death Panel will make the final determination.
You see Cobalt, in obamaland, we needn't worry about such things anymore.
RIP Larry.
Oldefarte| 11.24.12 @ 11:09AM
Even though he [as all politically brainwashed actors are] a far-leftist loon, may be RIP!!!!!
Al Adab| 11.24.12 @ 11:40AM
Simply an actor reading his lines, but one memorable phrase stands out as a warning and a truth which we, our political and business leaders should heed. J R was once asked how he could be so evil and manipulative. He replied, "Once you give up integrity darling, all the rest is easy."
RIP
Jack of Spades| 11.24.12 @ 3:37PM
I'm embarassed to say that I started watching "Dallas" for a few seasons in the wake of the "Who shot J.R." hype, but it was kind of fun to watch the skunk outfox his adversaries week after week.
The soap opera was blunted by the Ewing family's conspicuous consumption. Every time I was getting worked up over some character's woes, someone would take the family helicopter to Southfork and I'd decide that they didn't need my pity.
RIP
Cobalt| 11.24.12 @ 4:17PM
Another actor, Deborah Raffin, died on Wednesday of leukemia.
She was a very pretty lady.
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Occam's Tool| 11.25.12 @ 12:34AM
Great. Another good actor who was an idiot in personal life.
They don't make them like Jimmy Stewart anymore.
Seek| 11.26.12 @ 2:03PM
They make them better. See Michael Caine, Ben Kingsley, Sean Connery, Anthony Hopkins, Peter O'Toole and Albert Finney. God bless the other side of the pond as well as ours.
Occam's Tool| 11.26.12 @ 2:16PM
Sorry, Jimmy was better than any of the ones you named. Including O'Toole. See: Rope, Rear Window, The Philadephia Story, Harvey, It's a Wonderful Life, The Shootist, and Vertigo.
Sir Anthony Paycheck's latest role: Odin, in THOR. Michael Caine was wonderful in the Batman series, right?
PLEASE, Seek. Be a GOOD Conservative, like Jimmy Stewart. Look up his incredible, politically Conservative, unbelievable REAL LIFE HEROISM life and get back to me.
In addition, GENERAL Jimmy Stewart was a war hero. You're comparing CONNERY to Stewart?
Seek| 11.26.12 @ 7:48PM
No way does Jimmy Stewart even deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence as the actors I've just mentioned (or many more I could mention). At best, he was a serviceable studio player, and frankly, something of a Johnny one-note. And a good many of his films, beyond those directed by Hitchcock, were forgettable.
I'm fully aware of Stewart's record as a war hero, but in the end that has nothing to do with either his acting skills or the movies in which he starred. When I go the movies, I go for the pleasures of cinema, not to be a "good conservative" awaiting my weekly dosage of political "uplift." I check my politics at the door. I'll let others tap into their inner Medved.
By the way, I've seen Michael Caine in numerous recent films, including Christopher Nolan's masterful Batman flicks. And yes, he was terrific.
Casey Abell| 11.25.12 @ 1:35PM
Hagman somehow hung around the "fascist" U.S. under Bush to take advantage of the lower tax rates. Oh well, R.I.P for another Hollywood hypocrite, who dumped on the country which made him rich.
And if that sounds mean-spirited, I'm sorry. But sometimes the truth will out.