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R.I.P., Larry Hagman, the actor best known as J.R. Ewing on Dallas, has died. Hagman passed away in a Dallas hospital on Friday afternoon. He was 81.
Hagman was filming season two of TNT's Dallas revival when he died due to complications related to his recent fight with cancer.
"Larry Hagman was a giant, a larger-than-life personality whose iconic performance as J.R. Ewing will endure as one of the most indelible in entertainment history," "Dallas" executive producers Cynthia Cidre and Michael M. Robin said in a statement (which was also attributed to Warner Bros. TV and the show's cast and crew). "He truly loved portraying this globally recognized character, and he leaves a legacy of entertainment, generosity and grace. Everyone at Warner Bros. and in the "Dallas" family is deeply saddened by Larry's passing, and our thoughts are with his family and dear friends during this difficult time."
"All of us at TNT are deeply saddened at the news of Larry Hagman's passing," the cable network said in a statement. "He was a wonderful human being and an extremely gifted actor. We will be forever thankful that a whole new generation of people got to know and appreciate Larry through his performance as J.R. Ewing. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family at this very difficult time."
“Larry was back in his beloved Dallas, re-enacting the iconic role he loved most,” Hagman's family said in a statement to the newspaper. “Larry’s family and close friends had joined him in Dallas for the Thanksgiving holiday. When he passed, he was surrounded by loved ones. It was a peaceful passing, just as he had wished for. The family requests privacy at this time.”
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Nooo
He was one of my favorite actors in the 80s
RIP Larry
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17 years with a used liver is pretty damn good.
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I'm happy to be here. I'm happy to be anywhere. I'm not kidding.
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pose in peace!!
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really sad....I love the Dallas show....I had just started watching the new version ecently...I have ssen every single episode of the old version
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He died of cancer?
Liars and filt, probably died from a fucked up liver since it was obvious he was juiced to the max!
(1st)
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Yes sad.
He was my idol.
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aYF0Und2oHY/TQrCyBmO-tI/AAAAAAAAA1k/s5t8JfhjPDE/s1600/dallass1_3.jpg)
(http://fierceandnerdy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/jr-ewing.jpg)
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Who can forget the most epic intro of all.
This TV-series shaped my image of the Americans as a young lad.
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steroids?
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was a great actor and had a severe drink problem but read he stopped.. still we should remember him for his acting after all we all have faults.
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:(
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grey hair=bad liver and kidney
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grey hair=bad liver and kidney
u could be right falconi but the guy lived hard took his body for granted ,,,booze,cigs,,looked a hard 81 ,,lucky to have lived that long,,mickey mantle same way drank it away,,,
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grey hair=bad liver and kidney
Um... he was 81 years old.
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Legendary recuperative abilities.
Always came across as a great guy.
RIP.
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10 gallon hat of peace,,,,
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I read his biography a few years back. He drank constantly all day every day for 30+ years. Thru filming of I dream of Jeannie and all thru Dallas he was constantly 50% inebriated. He started drinking first thing in the morning and stopped drinking last thing at night. Never sober and never drunk, just constantly in the middle ground of slightly altered reality.
Funny story, his next door neighbour was Burgess Meredeth (Rocky coach and Penguin in 60's Batman) and he was always causing problems. One time he was stopping Larry building an extension to his home. Larry discussed it with another neighbour, minister Bob Wynn. Bob apparently said, " Larry we have a prayer session each week and 25 of us get together to read the bible. Maybe we can help with your problem with Burgess thru prayer. Next week we'll all just pray that old fucker dead".
;D ;D ;D
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For a Moment i thought that was Ford Dealer CAL WORTHINGTON
(http://cache.jalopnik.com/assets/images/12/2007/04/medium_Cal_worthington.jpg)
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rip larry, i dream of jeannie is great.
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Jack Kerouac
On October 20, 1969, around 11 in the morning, Kerouac was sitting in his favorite chair, drinking whiskey and malt liquor, trying to scribble notes for a book about his father's print shop in Lowell, Mass. He suddenly felt sick to his stomach, which was nothing unusual, and headed for the bathroom. He began to throw up large amounts of blood, and yelled to his wife, "Stella, I'm bleeding." Eventually he was persuaded to go to the hospital and was taken by ambulance to St. Anthony's in St. Petersburg. Blood continued to pour from his mouth and he underwent several transfusions. That evening he underwent surgery in an attempt to tie off all the burst blood vessels, but his damaged liver prevented his blood from clotting. Kerouac died at 5:15 the following morning, October 21, 1969, never having regained consciousness after the operation.
Grave site, Lowell, Massachusetts
His death, at the age of 47, was determined to be due to an internal hemorrhage (bleeding esophageal varices) caused by cirrhosis, the result of a lifetime of heavy drinking, along with complications from an untreated hernia and a bar fight he had been involved in weeks prior to his death.
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And Floyd.
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He was pretty cute.
(http://uploads.neatorama.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/343Jeannie-and-Major-Nelson-i-dream-of-jeannie-6223180-343-298.jpg)
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I loved the tv show "Dallas" when I was a child. RIP
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RIP. Dallas and Jeannie of course - but he was also in a 60s movie called "Fail Safe" that I liked...
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RIP. Dallas and Jeannie of course - but he was also in a 60s movie called "Fail Safe" that I liked...
Fail Safe was an awesome movie......practically the whole movie took place in one room
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Another classic photo...
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Although we might all wake up in a year and find it was just a dream.
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Although we might all wake up in a year and find it was just a dream.
good one ;)
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I enjoyed watching Dallas back in the day, Larry Hagman was awsome!
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I enjoyed watching Dallas back in the day, Larry Hagman was awsome!
he was....J.R. was a very compelling character
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rip jr
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i always hated when my parents had to watch dallas when i was a kid at night and made me get away from the tv
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http://xfinity.comcast.net/blogs/tv/2012/11/24/death-of-iconic-star-creates-challenge-for-dallas-producers/
Death of Iconic Star Creates Challenge for ‘Dallas’ Producers
The writers and producers of TNT’s “Dallas” now face the challenge of creating a storyline that will do justice to the iconic status of their star, Larry Hagman, and the legendary character he played, J.R. Ewing.
Hagman, 81, died Friday afternoon in a Dallas hospital. At the time of his death, he was on the TNT series playing the role that made him world famous three decades ago — J.R. on the original “Dallas” on CBS. Season One of the new “Dallas” aired last summer on TNT, and the first six episodes of Season Two have already been filmed, with Hagman, according to this story on the Hollywood Reporter Web site.
Season Two is scheduled to premiere Jan. 28, THR said.
The challenge for the show’s writers: How do they explain J.R.’s sudden absence? And even more importantly, how do they craft a send-off for J.R. and Hagman that will be equal to the character, the actor and the show?
The THR story suggests that the show’s producers may have been “caught off-guard” by Hagman’s death — which may mean they had no inkling that his cancer had progressed past the critical stage. In fact, none of the accounts of Hagman’s death Saturday morning contain details about how he died, such as how long he’d been hospitalized.
The show’s executive producers, Cynthia Cidre and Michael M. Robin, issued a statement about Hagman’s death that gave no indication of what they may be doing to handle his death in upcoming “Dallas” episodes that have yet to be written. “Larry Hagman was a giant, a larger-than-life personality whose iconic performance as J.R. Ewing will endure as one of the most indelible in entertainment history,” the statement said, according to this story. “He truly loved portraying this globally recognized character, and he leaves a legacy of entertainment, generosity and grace. Everyone at Warner Bros. and in the Dallas family is deeply saddened by Larry’s passing, and our thoughts are with his family and dear friends during this difficult time.”
We can’t resist giving you our own take on that statement: It seems highly impersonal, and likely crafted by a corporate p.r. person. We hope these producers will get together to write a more heart-felt send-off for Hagman on “Dallas” than this cold statement would indicate they’re capable of. We’re just sayin’ … But having said that, we acknowledge that it’s also possible these producers have not had time to get their heads around the sad news of Hagman’s death, particularly since it fell in the middle of the holiday weekend.
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Early 80s Dallas was amazingly popular in Holland and Belgium. I was very young but I was allowed to watch the show. I remember Pamela was hot, and Sue Ellen's sister, can't remember her name.
Hagman was a terrific actor in Dallas, better than the rest combined. Some years ago i read that his secret was that JR was mean, but always predictable, so he was never threatening.
I like Cliff Barnes too, the all-time loser who adored Chinese food because in his youth they never had any money to go out to a decent restaurant.
Later we watched Dynasty too, but it never had what Dallas had.
RIP JR EWING he's at the Heavenly Ewing Barbecue, pushing Cliff in the pool over and over again. 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
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Who can forget the most epic intro of all.
This TV-series shaped my image of the Americans as a young lad.
Maybe we got stuff in common after all, Kwonny.... ;)
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http://xfinity.comcast.net/blogs/tv/2012/12/10/dallas-plans-funeral-for-j-r-ewing/
Dallas Plans Funeral for J.R. Ewing
Three weeks after television icon Larry Hagman passed away due to complications from cancer, “Dallas” is lining up its own funeral for Hagman’s famed alter ego J.R. Ewing.
TVLine reports that “Dallas” will lay one of television’s greatest villains to rest on the eighth episode of the upcoming season, which will air on March 11 and a number of veterans from the original version of the show will show up to pay their final respects.
Despite his failing health, Hagman was able to complete several episodes of the show before his death. According to the story, “although production was not significantly impacted, producers quickly began crafting a proper sendoff — one that is rumored to feature a number of returning Dallas vets (including several that have not yet been seen on the TNT version.)”
The show is slated to return to TNT on Jan. 28.
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RIP
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http://xfinity.comcast.net/blogs/tv/2013/03/09/tnts-mourning-glory-stars-turn-out-for-j-r-s-dallas-funeral/
TNT’s Mourning Glory: Stars Turn Out for J.R.’s ‘Dallas’ Funeral
It’s the TV funeral of the year.
In fact, it may be the only TV funeral of the year, since the deaths of legendary TV characters don’t happen all that often during the production of a TV show. And then, even rarer is the opportunity to actually stage a funeral for the character.
But that’s what happens Monday night on “Dallas” (9/8c on TNT), which lays to rest its most notorious figure — John Ross “J.R.” Ewing Jr., played by the late Larry Hagman.
Hagman died of complications from cancer on Nov. 23 at age 81, midway into the shooting of the sixth episode of the current, second season of the new “Dallas” on TNT.
Ever since then, “Dallas” fans have wondered how the show would deal with Hagman’s death.
On Monday night, they’ll get their answer — with a wake, a funeral and a handful of twists and turns seemingly engineered and initiated by J.R. from beyond the grave in a sign that the spirit of J.R. will continue to be felt on “Dallas” long after his death.
The title of the episode — “J.R.’s Masterpiece” — alludes to a scheme J.R. was in the midst of carrying out when he died, though we don’t learn fully what this “Masterpiece” is exactly in Monday’s episode.
How do I know this? Because TNT made the episode available to TV scribes before its airdate. And since I just watched it, I can tell you it’s well-worth watching. For one thing, the episode represents a “who’s who” of real-life Dallas luminaries, plus a number of “Dallas” stalwarts who all gather to bury J.R., and even to praise him in some cases.
Among those to watch out for: Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings.
And from the fictional world of “Dallas” — particularly the old one — look for: Ted Shackelford, 66 (Gary Ewing), Ken Kercheval, 77 (Cliff Barnes), Steve Kanaly, 66 (Ray Krebbs), Charlene Tilton, 54 (Lucy Ewing) and Cathy Podewell, 49 (Cally Harper Ewing).
We won’t spoil the experience by revealing anything else about what happens in the episode. But, as you can imagine, the death and subsequent funeral of J.R. brings some family members together, and drives others even farther apart.
We didn’t know Larry Hagman, but we like to think he’d be proud of the way “Dallas” is sending off J.R. — with a considerable amount of mourning, heartfelt eulogies and a whole lot o’ mystery.
“Dallas” — featuring the funeral of J.R. Ewing — airs Monday night at 9/8c on TNT.
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RIP