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Beneath the glamorous settings and soap-opera situations -and inextricable from them-is a solid, suggestive foundation of conflicting themes and characters. David Jacobs, 40, who created the show and wrote many of its early episodes, struck a rich vein of dramatic possibilities with one basic opposition: the Old West...
If this makes the program sound like the subject for a doctorate in contemporary mythology, so be it. But Jacobs refuses to fish for a subtext. "Dallas makes no demands on the system," he says. "It is not about capitalism, Big Oil, the rich and the poor, abuse of power...
In 1977 Dallas was only a wicked gleam in David Jacobs' eye. Jacobs, a balding, cherubic man who was then story editor of ABC's Family, had the idea for an hourlong series, "a sort of American Scenes from a Marriage. "Richard Burger, then head of dramatic development...
But the Ewings, even in embryo, had already begun to dominate the lives of those around them. Says Jacobs: "Then I had to write a family. Before I had even got to the script, we had complicated things too much. We had created a ranch hand who had brought her...
Borrowing short-term money to finance long-term needs is not only expensive but inherently risky because the loans must continually be renewed at high rates. Financial experts fear that many small and even some big corporations, unable to continue borrowing, will go bankrupt. Their demise in turn may shake...