Word: hagman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even Even before before reporting reporting began for this week's cover story on television's whodunit hit Dallas, two TIME staff members knew the show intimately. Correspondent James Willwerth prepared for his interviews with Dallas producers, writers and actors - including Larry Hagman, who plays Star Villain J.R. Ewing - by sitting through hours of screenings. "I attempted to list which of the seven deadly sins, Ten Commandments and miscellaneous Freudian nightmares were depicted," says Will werth, "but I bogged down after anger, envy, lust, avarice, adultery, coveting thy neighbor's wife and worshiping false idols." Associate Editor...
...States have been known to call their wives with news of episodes aired in the U.S. but not yet shown in the crown colony. In Australia, Network 10 quickly ran out of its supply of I HATE J.R. badges and when it announced that it hoped to bring Larry Hagman-J.R. himself -to the country, the switchboard was swamped with requests for his private phone number. Citizens of such troubled Middle East nations as Lebanon and Jordan find the show a welcome diversion, a fantasy land where oil-rich Americans have fun making themselves miserable. And in Turkey...
...since the Battle of Concord has a shot been heard round the world like this. Televiewers in 50 other countries are as agog as U.S. audiences over who ambushed mean J.R. Ewing, played by Actor Larry Hagman, in the season finale of the high-rating Dallas series. A British bookmaker accepted wagers on the identity of J.R.'s assailant; betting $234,000, punters made Wife Sue Ellen's cowboy lover, Dusty, a 6 to 4 favorite even though he is presumed dead in a plane crash. With six other likely suspects, Dallas' producers are filming different versions...
...Larry Hagman, Texas-born star of Dallas, on the city behind the soap opera: "If we did the real Dallas, they wouldn...