'Dallas' returns with J.R.'s final schemes

By FRAZIER MOORE

Entertainment Jan. 28, 2013 - 06:37AM JST ( 3 )

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Harry_GattoJan. 28, 2013 - 08:42AM JST

“I think viewers want closure,” said Linda Gray, who plays J.R.‘s long-suffering ex-wife, Sue Ellen. “They want to mourn Larry Hagman and J.R. Ewing. They want to know they can grieve the fact he won’t be around.”

Really?
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FadamorJan. 30, 2013 - 12:41AM JST

J.R. Ewing really WAS the character everybody loved to hate. Larry Hagman took your typical soap opera bad guy and cranked it up by a scale of 4 when playing J.R. Ewing. J.R. was Tony Soprano without all the blood and violence. His evilness was partially in his untouchable status and partially in his absolute lack of empathy for anyone else. If you impeded his plans in any way, he ruined you financially, then gloated at your inability to retaliate. I remember when word got out that Larry Hagman would be starring in "Dallas" and everyone was thinking "Major Nelson from 'I Dream of Jeannie' will be playing a good guy on 'Dallas'". Boy were WE wrong!
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CrisGerSanJan. 30, 2013 - 05:03AM JST

I knew Larry personally, in my work and had a chance to spend time with him over some years. He was an interesting man and an example of some challenges of American culture. He loved the role and played it well, he was a consumate professional and did enjoy acting. his mother had been a famous actress and he grew up in that world. He was also a man who enjoyed and lived life fully. He had challenges and surmounted them, for which i respected him. I always did question the role he played, JR, and its benefit vs its harm, for the US is truly a culture filled with some real good and some real other not so good. In time, we will know more about the impact, the real impact, of the content of modern entertainment, Movies, TV and games...but for now, I am sorry he has passed. He himself questioned some of it and was looking for more in life than just the surface...not sure if he found it. But he was a very interesting and fine man and had the good fortune to have found a wonderful and very interesting and very fine lady as his wife which made a huge difference. Thanks for the article.