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Posted on 2/22/24 at 7:55 pm to
Posted by Jimbeaux
Member since Sep 2003
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Posted on 2/22/24 at 7:55 pm to
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Also… Larry Hagman was a likable, funny soldier on I Dream Of Genie. In Dallas… quite possibly the best tv villain that ever got written.


But wasn’t Hagman more like Major Nelson than J.R. Ewing?
Posted by Honest Tune
Louisiana
Member since Dec 2011
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Posted on 2/22/24 at 8:09 pm to
No he was a drunk raging lunatic that would cut his own mother over a barrel of oil and bang his brother’s wife at family get togethers.

ETA: there is no evidence to support the above claim.
This post was edited on 2/22/24 at 8:10 pm
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
Member since Jul 2007
142691 posts
Posted on 2/22/24 at 8:25 pm to
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wasn’t Hagman more like Major Nelson than J.R. Ewing?
IRL? lulz

LH was such a pain in the arse on IDOJ that if it had lasted another season he was going to be fired.

Supposedly Sammy Davis got so aggravated by LH during his guest shot that he walked of the set, & the producer had to beg him to come back.

Then there is the story of LH (an amateur pilot) flying over the studio lot and dropping a certain bodily fluid on the offices below...
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