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J.R. has gone to the Big Ranch in the sky..

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  • #32
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    RIP Larry, an acting icon and a great who was much copied but never equalled.


  • #33
    Agricola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    Another childhood icon gone!

    He really inhabited that role. I think there was a lot of JR in Larry Hagman, thats why it worked so well.


  • #34
    take everything
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,995 ✭✭✭take everything


    RIP.


  • #35
    MidlandsM
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭MidlandsM


    rip Larry


  • #36
    Shryke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    Biggins last post has made me really wish this man was still alive. I never knew he was such a great character. RIP.


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  • #37
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,978 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    RIP Larry.

    Grew up watching him every week on Dallas and spent a summer in the 90s watching the reruns on RTE. Also remember watching him in the mid-80s on Sky (back when there was still one one channel) in I Dream of Jeannie.

    His portrayal of JR is for me up there with my other favourite TV/movie villain - Gordon Gecko

    Wonderful actor, and by all accounts a very nice guy who really enjoyed life and did a lot for charity in his later years. Will sorely be missed.


  • #38
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,245 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    I see the RTÉ have kept up their usual journalistic standards, marking Larry's death by republishing an old interview, unchanged, in which he talks about his health.
    Not that he has any intention of hanging up his spurs now. "Actors can't retire", he said recently, reckoning that he has another ten years in the tank. "Did I say only ten?" Hagman asks, eyebrows arching. "Thirty would be good. Retire from what though? Most actors are out of work most of their lives so we're lucky to get work, blessed and lucky. The secret to living life is so easy, it's all about having the right attitude."

    Does he think that the series' makers will shoot J.R. again? "Who the hell knows?" he says. "If they can make money at it, yeah they'll shoot me again." But he doesn't look too worried: after all he's been there before.

    OK, they changed the subject line. :rolleyes:

    Government resting upon the will and universal suffrage of the people has no anchorage except in the people's intelligence.

    — Grover Cleveland



  • #39
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Ghost Train wrote: »
    Yes will probably remember him more for that than Dallas, I Dream of Jeannie reruns were afternoon viewing on one of the channels back in the eighties or ninties. can't remember which channel

    C4


  • #40
    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,638 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    Actually really sad about this. Larry Hagman was a legend :(


  • #41
    Mrs Garth Brooks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,865 ✭✭✭Mrs Garth Brooks


    What happens to Dallas now that he's gone. There's meant to be another season.
    Thought it might last another few more years. Not the same without him.

    R.I.P. Larry Hagman and J.R. Ewing


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  • #42
    flutterflye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,538 ✭✭✭flutterflye


    Am I the only person who has no idea who this is?
    I've never seen Dallas, but people are talking about it like it's still on? Is it not a really old show?


  • #43
    phoenix999
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 581 ✭✭✭phoenix999


    HardLuckWoman wrote: »
    What happens to Dallas now that he's gone. There's meant to be another season.
    Thought it might last another few more years. Not the same without him.

    R.I.P. Larry Hagman and J.R. Ewing

    I believe a 2nd series had been pretty much completed. So he should be back for at least one more series next year.


  • #44
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    flutterflye wrote: »
    Am I the only person who has no idea who this is?
    I've never seen Dallas, but people are talking about it like it's still on? Is it not a really old show?

    Well the original series was around in the 80's, but they've done a reboot of it last year as a kind of a second generation and modernised the whole thing, a bit like they did with Beverly Hills 90210.


  • #45
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    phoenix999 wrote: »
    I believe a 2nd series had been pretty much completed. So he should be back for at least one more series next year.

    When he passed, they were currently working on episode six (season two).


  • #46
    phoenix999
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 581 ✭✭✭phoenix999


    Biggins wrote: »

    When he passed, they were currently working on episode six (season two).

    Hope it will be finished and aired. I enjoyed the first series. Brought back a few memories of family members who have since passed on.


  • #47
    Laois_Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,758 ✭✭✭Laois_Man


    A really sad day. The end of an era.

    Although I'm not really a fan of the new incarnation of Dallas, like almost everyone who remembers the 80's, it was a massive thing. Larry Hagman gave a ruthless\nasty charachter a likeable personality and an edge whereby the viewer was always on his side no matter whose life he was trying to trample on and destroy. A superb actor. All the more superb given that Hagman was apparently pissed out of his mind when shooting many of the scene's - But you'd never once have known it.

    Did you know that Robert Foxworth, the actor who later went on to play Chase Gioberti in Falcon Crest, was the first actor to be offered the part of J.R. Ewing? He turned it down. And thank God he did because there's no way he'd have pulled it off and made the entire show and the J.R. charachter as legendary as Larry Hagman did.


  • #48
    AllGunsBlazing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,730 ✭✭✭AllGunsBlazing


    Sad news.

    Sitting down to watch Dallas of a Saturday night on RTE was a family event in many households back in the early 80's.

    RIP.


  • #49
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,717 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    Always thought Larry was a cool guy... Heard a few soundbytes on the news earlier, and even in those he was giving Cliff a going over.. :D He never gave luckless Cliff Barnes a break...


  • #50
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    JonathanAnon wrote: »
    Always thought Larry was a cool guy... Heard a few soundbytes on the news earlier, and even in those he was giving Cliff a going over.. :D He never gave luckless Cliff Barnes a break...

    Too many brilliant one-liners to quote-




    A true legend in every sense of the word! :D


  • #51
    grey_so_what
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,749 ✭✭✭✭grey_so_what


    I remember the "who shot JR" t-shirt......

    JR and Swellen were great sparring partners!......Cliff Barnes always made a hames of trying to outdo JR....

    RIP


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  • #52
    Ann22
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,006 ✭✭✭Ann22


    Rip Larry, the best baddie ever, a total legend. Even in the new series when he was obviously old and frail he stole the show,what a screen presence. I loved his evil laugh and the glint in his eye. He'll be remembered fondly:(.


  • #53
    grenache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,477 ✭✭✭grenache


    Was very saddened to hear this news earlier. Some of my earliest and best memories were of watching Dallas on Saturday as a child in the late 80s.

    Larry Hagman had such a screen presence. The many great scenes between him, Sue Ellen, Bobby & Cliff will live with me. He put the actors of today to shame, especially the new young guns in the revamped Dallas. He was proper old school, an actor in the proper sense, one who relied on body language as much as spoken word.

    Dallas as a soap and society in general has lost a true legend.

    RIP to the greatest villain ever.


  • #54
    Itwasntme.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,754 ✭✭✭Itwasntme.


    1ZRed wrote: »
    Took me ages to cop on you didn't mean J.k Rowling.

    I'm fuckin' thick this time of the night

    J.K Rowling was my first thought too. But then again, it's 4:15 in the morning and I have never watched Dallas so...


  • #55
    vektarman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭vektarman


    efb wrote: »
    I remember him in I Dream of Jeannie
    RIP
    That's my main memory of him too, RIP...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB0loZ_m-DE


  • #56
    flipper1934
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7 ✭flipper1934


    longshanks wrote: »
    Yeah, he's gone.

    R.I.P. Larry Hagman.



    he was very good on dallas ... always trying to out do everybody


  • #57
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    HardLuckWoman wrote: »
    What happens to Dallas now that he's gone. There's meant to be another season.

    Depends, it'll air if they've almost completed the series. But that'll be it. Without JR it's not Dallas. With the best will in the world, the episodes I saw that didn't have JR in them weren't worth watching. He's the guy with the brains, connections and experience in backstabbing, double crossing, wheeling & dealing and downright nastiness to keep the interest up.

    Even when I was a kid, and I would sit, riveted to the tv, glued to the spot when this music came on

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsVZUJVVaIE

    It wasn't waiting to see what Cristopher or John Ross were going to be doing, it was JR, all the time, everytime!

    JMO.


  • #58
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Has Kristen Shepard been taken in for questioning yet?


  • #59
    fishy fishy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭fishy fishy


    nah, swellen's lips stole the show, they worked independently of each other. I used to find it hilarious. always moving, even when she was saying nothing


  • #60
    Emeraldy Pebbles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 787 ✭✭✭Emeraldy Pebbles


    grenache wrote: »
    Larry Hagman had such a screen presence. The many great scenes between him, Sue Ellen, Bobby & Cliff will live with me. He put the actors of today to shame

    Calm down. Screen presence - yes. But no, there are lots of actors now that put him in the shade. He was grand but your eulogising of him is nostalgia, nothing more.


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