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Post by RockoRoll on Nov 24, 2012 19:44:17 GMT -5
This I wasn't expecting... RIP Larry, I know he was a big star with JR and Dallas, but my memories as a child will always be his 60's series with *I Dream Of Jeannie* with Barbara Eden.... (*Jeannieee*...lol)
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Post by lowbasso on Nov 24, 2012 20:12:34 GMT -5
This I wasn't expecting... RIP Larry, I know he was a big star with JR and Dallas, but my memories as a child will always be his 60's series with *I Dream Of Jeannie* with Barbara Eden.... (*Jeannieee*...lol) I had the good fortune to meet Larry Hagman at Max's Opera Cafe at Opera Plaza, San Francisco (on Van Ness Ave.) in the fall of 1981 along with his co-star in the DALLAS TV Series; Linda Grey. He was throwing a dinner party for his mother, Mary Martin, at the restaurant after she was honored at a SF Symphony Hall Concert for her work on Broadway and the movies. I had met Ms. Martin the year before at the SF Opera, when she heard me sing and had asked to meet me after my performance at the opera. I walked into Max's after an opera performance in 1981, (Max's was my watering hole in those days) and she saw me and invited me over to her table to meet her son Larry, and Linda, and join them for dinner. It was in the heyday of DALLAS on TV, so he was very popular and famous. He gave us all fake $100 dollar bills with his picture on them as J.R. Ewing and the caption under the picture was "In Hagman We Trust." Had a blast that night with him, his mother, and Ms. Grey and others in the restaurant.
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Post by scousette on Nov 24, 2012 22:00:24 GMT -5
Cool story, lowbasso. I work not far from Opera Plaza.
As Major Nelson and as J.R. Ewing, Larry Hagman was a great comic and character actor. We'll miss him.
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Post by Steve Marinucci on Nov 24, 2012 22:18:43 GMT -5
I met Mary Martin. Very sweet lady.
And here's Phil Spector on 'Jeannie.'
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Post by winstonoboogie on Nov 24, 2012 22:21:55 GMT -5
This I wasn't expecting... RIP Larry, I know he was a big star with JR and Dallas, but my memories as a child will always be his 60's series with *I Dream Of Jeannie* with Barbara Eden.... (*Jeannieee*...lol) I had the good fortune to meet Larry Hagman at Max's Opera Cafe at Opera Plaza, San Francisco (on Van Ness Ave.) in the fall of 1981 along with his co-star in the DALLAS TV Series; Linda Grey. He was throwing a dinner party for his mother, Mary Martin, at the restaurant after she was honored at a SF Symphony Hall Concert for her work on Broadway and the movies. I had met Ms. Martin the year before at the SF Opera, when she heard me sing and had asked to meet me after my performance at the opera. I walked into Max's after an opera performance in 1981, (Max's was my watering hole in those days) and she saw me and invited me over to her table to meet her son Larry, and Linda, and join them for dinner. It was in the heyday of DALLAS on TV, so he was very popular and famous. He gave us all fake $100 dollar bills with his picture on them as J.R. Ewing and the caption under the picture was "In Hagman We Trust." Had a blast that night with him, his mother, and Ms. Grey and others in the restaurant. Wow, lowbasso! You've really met a lot of interesting people! But yes, R.I.P., Mr. Hagman...
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Post by Joe Karlosi on Nov 25, 2012 8:21:45 GMT -5
This I wasn't expecting... Why not? The man was 81 and he has been very, very ill for many years now. Truthfully, I was happy to see him going on living for as long as he had -- now, THAT I was not expecting.
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Post by mikev on Nov 25, 2012 9:53:58 GMT -5
that is a great story and I have a funny one- if not nearly as good as lowbasso's. As a kid growing up with "I Dream of Jeannie", I remember watching the first Dallas episode, because Larry Hagman was back. Idiot me expected a comedy...then Major Nelson opened up his mouth with a nasty old Texas drawl...and we weren't at Cape Kennedy anymore . I never watched the show (Dallas) again, then Trapper John of ALL people (who left MASH tooooo early) played Nelson in the reunion show. Wasn't like five or six seasons of Dallas a dream?
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Post by lowbasso on Nov 25, 2012 13:10:05 GMT -5
Cool story, lowbasso. I work not far from Opera Plaza. As Major Nelson and as J.R. Ewing, Larry Hagman was a great comic and character actor. We'll miss him. During the 30 years I sang with SF Opera, I stayed at a condo at Opera Plaza from the time they were built starting in 1984 thru my most recent season there which was 2010. Many singers reside there during the opera season. It's only two blocks to the opera house. So Max's Cafe downstairs is a popular hangout. Their Niagra Cake is to die for....As is the Matzo Ball soup!
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Post by winstonoboogie on Nov 25, 2012 13:32:06 GMT -5
that is a great story and I have a funny one- if not nearly as good as lowbasso's. As a kid growing up with "I Dream of Jeannie", I remember watching the first Dallas episode, because Larry Hagman was back. Idiot me expected a comedy...then Major Nelson opened up his mouth with a nasty old Texas drawl...and we weren't at Cape Kennedy anymore . I never watched the show (Dallas) again, then Trapper John of ALL people (who left MASH tooooo early) played Nelson in the reunion show. Wasn't like five or six seasons of Dallas a dream? Well, one season, anyway - when Bobby ( Patrick Duffy's character) was run over by a car and killed. The producers felt the show had "lost its mojo" or something like that without Bobby so the cliffhanger the next season was where Pam (Bobby's "widow") awoke to find that Bobby was alive and taking a shower! The producers treated the previous season as a dream and went from there. IIRC, the general reaction was followed by ("they cheated us!")
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