Soap Dish: Remembering Larry Hagman!

It is Soap Dish time again and this week’s edition is a very special one. As you know TV icon Larry Hagman died on Friday, well this week’s column is dedicated to remembering Larry. I grew up watching Dallas. It was a Friday night staple in my house and my favorite part of the week. I remember when J.R. was shot and for an entire summer the world wanted to know “Who shot J.R.?’ There could not have been a J.R. to shoot if it were not for the amazingly talented Larry Hagman. He brought the character to life and was the reason fans loved to hate the man with an evil grin that let you know he was up to no good. Through all the years that Dallas was on Hagman brought his A-game despite his own personal demons he was fighting. In today’s TV world there is not a character even close to as juicy and mean as J.R Ewing, he and his portrayer were one of a kind. When Dallas was rebooted on TNT last summer fans could tell that even though Larry brought the sinister J.R. back, he was not the same. I don’t mean that [...]

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