The eternal party : understanding my dad, Larry Hagman, the TV star America loved to hate

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Label

The eternal party : understanding my dad, Larry Hagman, the TV star America loved to hate

Title remainder

understanding my dad, Larry Hagman, the TV star America loved to hate

Statement of responsibility

Kristina Hagman with Elizabeth Kaye

Creator

• Hagman, Kristina

Contributor

• Kaye, Elizabeth, 1945-

Author

• Kaye, Elizabeth, 1945-
• Hagman, Kristina

Subject

• Actors -- United States -- Biography
• Hagman, Larry
• Fathers and daughters -- United States -- Biography
• Hagman, Kristina

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

"When you have a very famous father, like mine, everyone thinks they know him. My Dad, Larry Hagman, portrayed the storied, ruthless oilman JR on the TV series Dallas. He was the man everyone loved to hate, but he had a personal reputation of being a nice guy who fully subscribed to his motto: Have Fun, Don't Worry, Be Happy. Dad had a famous parent too, Mary Martin, known from many roles on Broadway, most memorably as Peter Pan. Off-stage she was a kind, elegant woman, who maintained the down home charm of her Texas roots. Both were performers to the core of their beings, masters at crafting their public images. They were beloved. And their relationship was complex and often fraught. My father never apologized for anything, even when he was wrong. But in the hours before he died, when I was alone with him in his hospital room, he begged for forgiveness. In his delirium he could not tell me what troubled him but somehow I found the words to comfort him. After he died I was compelled to learn why he felt the need to be forgiven. As I solved the troubling mystery of why my happy-go-lucky, pot-smoking, LSD-taking Dad had spent his last breaths begging to be forgiven, I also came to know my father and grandmother better than I had known them in life."

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 791.4502/8092
• B

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

no index present

LC call number

PN2287.H17

LC item number

H34 2016

Literary form

non fiction