J.R. Ewing Is Dead
21 Responses to J.R. Ewing Is Dead
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philosopher says:
But, do we know who shot him this time?!?
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Not to be missed: “The Rollicking Life of Larry Hagman“, his drive-by interview with The New York Times Magazine from 2011 and one of the most heartwarming glimpses of the show business on whose bewhole it is as of tonight among my greatest privileges to evangelize: from his out-of-body Ovidian-avian turn while on mescaline with a little platoon of AmerIndian boys, to his novel essay in slipping Lauren Bacall the fine how-to-you-do of a bit of tongue as an only partly successful icebreaker, to his decades of naked water sport, to his desire for posthumous honor in the form of part-Larry weed cake, it’s all there, and whenever I hear about a kid getting in trouble with drugs, I shall send him the link.
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David J. White says:
I realize that I’m betraying my age — as well as the fact that I never really got into Dallas — but for me, Larry Hagman will always be Major Nelson in I Dream of Jeannie. I’d forgotten he was Mary Martin’s son.
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Jeffersonian says:
He appeared on the new “Dallas” earlier this fall and I was surprised to see him alive then, as I had thought I had heard he’d died several years ago. I was wrong, apparently.
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Warren Bajan says:
While living in Germany, I watched Dallas on German TV, dubbed into German. You don’t know how much of an evil-doer J.R. is until he sounds like a sadistic Nazi.
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SDS says:
Actually, I remember him best in “Fail-Safe”…….
Rest well, Major Nelson… -
to his decades of naked water sport
Please tell me you’re talking about jet-skiing without clothes or something similar…
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MH - Secular Misanthropist says:
I’m in the rest in peace Major Nelson camp.
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Carl Lowland says:
I never got into Dallas, because during that period I was flying all over the world rarely home long enough to get into anything. I Dream of Jeannie was the perfect show for a young man in the military, if you could get to a TV. Simply because Larry Hagman played an astronaut and Barbara Eden was, well, to say the least, stunning. Rest in Peace Major Nelson.
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Charles Cosimano says:
I never watched Dallas either. But Major Nelson will be missed.
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The Sicilian Woman says:
He was Major Nelson to me long before he was JR. Of course, I wanted to be Jeannie. She had a smokin’ bod, handsome man and a neat pad.
Requiescat in pace, Master.
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Hope says:
While raising small children, I lived for the 9PM Dallas slot when they were asleep and I could eat junk food and watch the drama at Southfork. He was so wonderfully evil. RIP, J.R.
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Sands says:
Man, there are some old timers posting here.
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Hk says:
Every Friday night our entire floor of our girls’ dorm crammed into the lounge at our Midwestern College to watch Dallas. We enjoyed the campiness and copied the fashions and loved to hate that mean old JR Ewing. Back in the days when it seemed everyone watched certain shows and shared their stories.
Eternal memory , Mr. Hagman
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EliteCommInc. says:
What makes the gentleman and icon was how drastically different the roles and shows (I Dream of Genie and Dallas) were and how excellent he fulfilled both. His entance on Dallas soldified him as a professional and gifted actor.
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M_Young says:
I ended up at Huffington Post (Celebrity) and was reminded, by a commentator, that Hagman played a supporting great role in ‘Failsafe’.
He/she also related a charming story, that Hagman showed up at a community theatre production of ‘South Pacific’ in Ojai, CA (apparently he lived there some time) and afterward invited the cast over to his home (his mother having been in the show on Broadway, I guess he felt some sort of connection.
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Dan says:
I loved DALLAS of course, but as far as I’m concerned Hagman’s finest accomplishment was directing the 1972 sequel to THE BLOB, called alternately SON OF BLOB and BEWARE! THE BLOB depending on what region of the country your local drive-in could be found in.
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John E_o says:
I also enjoyed watching him play Major Nelson more than I enjoyed watching him play JR Ewing.
William R 
I did not know, Master, that Major Nelson had left us. Of all the stills from his enviable role as Air Force overseer of a smokin’ genie, I shall treasure this the most, as it is worth its quite literal weight in gold (matching magic moment from YouTube here).
Requiescat in pace, Major Nelson.