#larry dallas

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Larry Dallas on Three's Company, 1977 - 1984

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Guilty!

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Laaaaarrrrryyyyy and Teeerrrrriiiiiiiiii

- See if i get this right. He’s not too tall, his look are meh, and he’s not too sensitive and not too bright …

- So, how would you like to go out with Larry?

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Barbara Eden and Larry Hagman in “I Dream Of Jeannie" (1965-1970) and on “Dallas” in 1991.

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Did they ban this book too ?

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When Norman and his twin brother Orman arrived in Hollywood in 1962, the handsome young men were immediately cast in Loretta Young’s new TV series as her twin sons! The duo were rechristened Dack and Dirk. The two were virtually identical, with the exception that Dack had a mole on his left cheek.

After Loretta Young’s show was cancels, the brothers appeared in episodes of various other TV shows. Then in 1967, brother Dirk died in an accident (hit a drunk driver). Later others would speculate that Dack’s addictions to alcohol, drugs, and sex were how he dealt with the grief over his brother’s death.

While Dack Rambo was never a major star, he worked consistently, in part due to his good looks. Later he would talk disparagingly about his own career:

“I think I wanted it for all the wrong reasons. I wanted it to be rich and famous. When you go at it from that point of view, it's never going to be really satisfying. ... And I didn't think I was particularly good. I thought I was pretty lucky."

Rambo privately identified himself as bisexual, but like other actors of the era, publicly he remained in the closet.

"It's not something you run around announcing.”

He would describe his sex life as "spicy" and admitted that he never practiced safe sex:

"I've been in love with women and I've been in love with men. And I think, depending on the particular time in my life, {the attraction} was stronger in one area than another. It's kind of the essence of a person that I've been attracted to. Whether it turned out to be a man or a woman was kind of immaterial."

In 1985, when Patrick Duffy decided to leave the show “Dallas”, Dack was hired to become Victoria Principal’s new love interest. This was the same year that Rock Hudson was cast as Linda Evans’ love interest in the rival show “Dynasty”. Subsequently when Hudson’s illness with AIDS was revealed, viewers wondered whether Hudson could have infected Evans when they kissed on the show.

This added scrutiny on gay actors impacted Dack. He never shared an on screen kiss with any of his female co-stars on Dallas. He also noticed that his role began to shrink because he was suspected of being gay.

"I knew there were whispers going on behind my back. Either 'He's gay,' or 'He's this or. . . .' And I thought, 'What the hell did I do?'

Dallas costar Ken Kercheval told Dack he admired him for being able to work on the show despite the homophobic flack from the crew. And it didn’t help that Dack and series star Larry Hagman didn’t get along. Rambo recalled:

“I didn't really fit into the mold of what (Hagman) considered male or macho. It was just very clear to me I wasn't going to be part of the family."

Rambo left the series in 1987 after 51 episodes.

In 1991, he was cast as Congressman Grant Harrison in the daytime soap opera “Another World” as a young man running for election as a senator. On the morning of his 18th episode, Dack received a call from his doctor telling him he tested positive for HIV. He went to the sent and completed his scheduled scenes for the day. In his last shot, his “father”, played by David Hedison, doubted his commitment to the senate race, asked him, “Are you ready to give that up?”

A prophetic questions… with his work done for the day, Rambo went directly to the production office and quit the show.

Dack described his feelings at the time:

"I was scared. I felt a lot of anger and a lot of rage. And actually wanting to die. But all those things were short-lived."

After discussing the diagnosis with his mangers, he decided to go public. A week later, Rambo released a statement announcing that he had the AIDS virus would devote himself to working on AIDS education and research. He is the first well-known actor ever to make such a statement. He said:

“Going public was like freedom to me…. I thought I would just go public with it, and suffer the consequences. Well, there were no consequences to suffer. In all the reaction I got literally from around the world -- the letters that came in, the telegrams, the phone calls, from people I knew, people I didn't know -- there was not one negative. I was grateful. I really knew I had done the right thing. Everyone was calling me, commending me on my courage and my bravery. I mean, you don't feel that at the time. But when you hear those words you think, 'Gee, maybe I've done something right."

Dack Rambo died on March of 1994, at the age of 52 of complications from AIDS.

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Larry Hagman

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who shot my stale gum

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1978

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On March 21, 1980, J.R. Ewing was shot by an unknown assailant on television’s popular prime-time drama "Dallas.” #OnThisDay #WhoShotJr?

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Sometimes I forget about how the original run of the soap opera Dallas ended with Billy Joel as Lucifer doing a reverse "It's a Wonderful Life" on the series' main character J.R. Ewing