Larry had already filmed six episodes of the upcoming season, but the writers have promised they are going to do justice with his death in the story - so I would imagine something pretty dynamic is going to happen and be at least a major part of one episode, if not the rest of the season.
I remember reading in a book about a strange incident that occurred on the set of “I Dream of Jeannie” between Sammy Davis, JR. and Larry Hagman. At one point, one of the guys on the set walks in and there is bad tension in the room. Sammy Davis, JR. is threatening to walk off because of something Hagman supposedly said to him. Thankfully Barbara Eden spoke privately with Sammy Davis, JR. and he agreed to finish filming but he wanted no further contact with Larry Hagman. Does anybody know what happened? To be fair to both men, I doubt that Larry Hagman would have been dumb enough to make a racist remark to Sammy Davis, JR. although I know Larry Hagman was infamous for his “eccentricities” in life. On the other hand, I also doubt that Sammy Davis, JR. was one of those prima donnas who could dish it out but not take it. Does anybody have any actual details on this incident? If I were in touch with Barbara Eden, I would ask her myself.
Incidentally: could you imagine what would happen if J. R. Ewing were black? There would be the godawfulest uproar…
“Who blew up JR?”
See post 7.
Bobby and Sue Ellen charge people $100 bucks a pop to piss on J.R.'s grave and make enough money to buy Texas.
What would I get if I bring a dog with diarrhea?
Hagman was also a director. He directed episodes of *I Dream of Jeannie[/i], but also quite a few episodes of Dallas as well as In the Heat of the Night and two episodes of The Good Life.
He also directed the sequel to The Blob, Beware the Blob. When the film was released on VHS, it was promoted as “The Film that J.R. Shot!”
“Mongo was easy; the bitch was inventing the candygram. Probably won’t even give me credit for it.”
It was quite a risk casting Hagman, known for such a nice-guy role, as JR, wasn’t it? I wonder if early reviews of ‘Dallas’ ravaged it for that, and had to eat their words later.
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How J.R. cool is it that Hagman died in Dallas?
Too young to remember IDOG but loved him in Dallas. I also remember him having a bit part in the first Superman movie ad well as a JR Ewing type role in Nixon. A great loss, in my estimation, and bymost accounts, a nice guy to work with. RIP Larry.
He was also the clueless USAR Colonel in The Eagle Has Landed.
His performance in the movie was strangely comical, especially given the gravitas of the story. His character was nothing like the one described in the book.
Not to be confused with the British sitcom aired in the US under the title Good Neighbors. In an eerily prescient casting decision, Hagman’s short-lived sitcom ('74–'75?) starred him opposite Donna Mills (“Abby” on Knot’s Landing) and David Wayne (“Digger Barnes” on Dallas).
I seem to remember a movie Hagman made as a man who had remarried when he thought his first wife had died. It turned out she was very much alive, and he found out. Then he was on an elevator, and when it stopped at one floor the doors opened and his current wife and his supposedly deceased wife stood there side by side. When he saw them he fainted.
CNN.com on Hagman’s former costars and friends reacting to his death: http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/24/showbiz/larry-hagman-celeb-sympathies/?iref=obinsite
I don’t remember DeLuise at all, but it’s been awhile since I’ve seen the movie. Walter Matthau is also good in it, as a coolly calculating Kissingeresque defense intellectual, not to mention a young Fritz Weaver as a conflicted Air Force officer. Sorrell Booke (later better known as Boss Hogg as The Dukes of Hazzard) plays a Congressman. Quite a cast.
Just remembered The Good Life, a short-lived TV series in the early 1970s. I liked it. A young married couple escape the rat race by becoming servants to a wealthy businessman.
EDIT: I see it mentioned before now, but I didn’t catch the reference before.
And the doctor who refuses to let his patient be moved from a parking lot in “The Big Bus”!