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...older people to drop it. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, in 1980 21% of high school students were habitual puffers. Over the years, the Cancer Society has enlisted celebrities and health officials to promote the Smokeout campaign - everyone from Dallas star and ex-smoker Larry Hagman (1981) to Mr. Potato Head, who was 1987's "Spokespud." (Some reports at the time said he turned over his plastic pipe to the Surgeon General in the process.) Throughout the Smokeout's history, other gimmicks have been employed, including free giveaways (apples or ice cream scoops in exchange for packs...
...Andie Grace, a spokesperson for the festival who keeps track of such things at the annual, week-long circus in the Nevada desert, said there's no way to know. "Among the oldest participants I've ever had the pleasure to hang out with, one was actor Larry Hagman, who was born in September of '31," she said. "So your cousin has him beat." Easily. Irving was seven when J.R. Ewing was born...
...Wilson makes deals in hot tubs surrounded by naked prostitutes. The age, pulchritude and dress code of the all-girl staff in his Washington office show that he believes more in cleavage than in cloture. Hanks' portrayal of this genial, grasping, philandering Texas charmer owes a lot to Larry Hagman's J.R. Ewing from Dallas - a man who took so much pleasure in screwing people, and did it with so much con-artistry, that they often enjoyed it too. That's the secret of a successful politician: If you manipulate Them (the voters, the lobbyists, your colleagues) suavely enough, they...
...parts he got, but the subtraction of the ones he didn't. All those what-ifs have to be the most poignant section of an actor's r?sum?. George had been cast in a meaty role in Primary Colors but director Mike Nichols replaced him with Larry Hagman. Then there are parts that could have been bigger than they were. Eager to work with Woody Allen, George signed up for Small Time Crooks, where he was in exactly one scene. (Even there he was hard to spot: viewers got a good look at his left ear but not much else...
...Special Relationship just got a little more special. LAUREN BUSH, teen model and niece of President-elect George W. Bush, and PRINCE WILLIAM of England, teen heartthrob and heir to the throne, are reportedly engaged in the hottest epistolary relationship since Heloise and Abelard, or at least since Larry Hagman and Linda Gray toured in Love Letters. According to British tabloids, Bush, 16, fired the first shot two years ago by leaving a photo of herself on a yacht where William was due to holiday. Will, clever boy, tracked down Lauren's address and sent her a photo of himself...