{"id":7818,"date":"2012-11-26T10:10:34","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T16:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=7818"},"modified":"2012-11-26T10:13:32","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T16:13:32","slug":"larry-hagman-remembered-in-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=7818","title":{"rendered":"Larry Hagman Remembered In Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/hagmanlarry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7846\" title=\"hagmanlarry\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/hagmanlarry.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>PARKER, Texas (AP) \u2014 Tourists and locals flocked to Southfork Ranch on Saturday, bringing flowers in memory of Larry Hagman, who played the infamous J.R. Ewing on the TV show \u201cDallas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Hagman died in Dallas on Friday at age 81 due to complications from his battle with cancer.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Southfork, a ranch north of Dallas, was known to millions of viewers as the Ewing family home. Exterior shots of the house and pool were shown when the series aired from 1978 to 1991, although the show wasn&#8217;t filmed there.<\/p>\n<p>The ranch has been open for tours since the mid-1980s, and now sees more than 100,000 visitors each year. Each room of the house has a theme for each character.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, J.R. Ewing&#8217;s room had flowers and a card for tourists to sign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday is about Larry Hagman and his family,\u201d said Janna Timm, a Southfork Ranch &amp; Hotel spokeswoman. \u201cHe was such a wonderful person, and we will really miss him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDallas\u201d was recently revived on TNT this summer, and all of the scenes were filmed at Southfork or other places in the Dallas area. Hagman had revised his role as the scheming oilman who would even double-cross his own son.<\/p>\n<p>Linda Sproule of Peterborough, Ontario, had been traveling through the U.S. the past couple of weeks and heard about Hagman&#8217;s death Friday while in Dallas. She said she didn&#8217;t know where Southfork was but wanted to come because she was a fan of the show in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember on Friday nights we watched it, and J.R. was bigger than life in some ways,\u201d she said after taking the Southfork tour Saturday morning. \u201cThis ranch is beautiful. Being here is kind of emotional in a way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Barbara Quinones and her husband were in town for their daughter&#8217;s soccer tournament and had already planned to visit Southfork when they heard news of Hagman&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe loved him because he was so ruthless,\u201d said Quinones, of Albuquerque, N.M. \u201cThis is a sad day, but I&#8217;m glad we&#8217;re here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some of the show&#8217;s stars, including Hagman, came to Southfork for the series\u2019 25th anniversary. The Fort Worth-born actor also had visited several times before the show was revived.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was definitely a gentleman, a class act,\u201d said Jim Gomes, vice president of resorts at Southfork Ranch &amp; Hotel. \u201cHe loved the fans as much as they loved him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARKER, Texas (AP) \u2014 Tourists and locals flocked to Southfork Ranch on Saturday, bringing flowers in memory of Larry Hagman, who played the infamous J.R. Ewing on the TV show \u201cDallas.\u201d \u00a0Hagman died in Dallas on Friday at age 81 due to complications from his battle with cancer. \u00a0Southfork, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7818"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7820,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7818\/revisions\/7820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}