I was
saddened earlier in the week to hear of Larry Hagman’s death. The first I read of it was a short blurb on
Facebook about how he claimed to be the reason for the Berlin Wall coming
down. And of course, I can’t find that
article now or I’d send you there to see for yourself.
Anyways, apparently
he claimed that he caused the fall of the Berlin Wall by way of the success of
the TV show Dallas that he starred in
in the 1980s. To his thinking (according
to the article), the show caused the changes because the world saw how opulent
and abundant life could be in the US by way of Dallas reruns. He might’ve
been on to something there. You can’t exactly
rise to a possibility you don’t know is out there.
The article
also mentioned that Mr. Hagman was a huge storyteller. I don’t know firsthand if he was or not, but
I do know he was a big man. I know because
I found myself standing next to him at an arts festival in Dallas back in the ‘80s. Yes indeed.
I looked up to see who was there next to me, and low and behold I found
myself shrinking down to Polly Pocket size as I looked up, and up, and up. I mean he was Big! And on top of that, he
wore himself a 10 ½ gallon Stetson hat to boot!
And le’me tellya! His smile would
melt the world’s crisis down to a liquid puddle! He was big and beautiful! And quite a gentleman
too, at least that day I saw him.
I didn’t
watch much of Dallas since I was
kinda surrounded by it back then. But I did watch a lot of the younger version
of Larry Hagman on I Dream of Jeannie
when I was very (very!) young. I loved that show because it made me laugh,
and y’all know I do love me some
laughter!
On a different
TV note, I’ve been lassoed by Southern Belle (of the Margarita Mamas variety) into
watching Bayou Billionaires. What in the Sam Hill…? Y’all should be afraid. Those are my crazy coonass people! One show was all I needed to require a personal
speech therapist. Aszou kin prolly tell
here, I ain’t quite recovered yit, dagnabbit!
Well...
Goodnight Mr. Hagman. May you rest in
peace. And thank you for all the smiles
and laughter….and for bringing that wall down, too! :D
How about
you…do you have memories of Larry Hagman on any favorite TV shows? How about a Stetson hat…got one of those?
