marriage?
Hagman: I’ll tell you my wife’s
secret: two bathrooms.
PCT: That brings us to the subject
of your liver transplant in 1995.
Tell us about the photo on your
bathroom mirror.
Hagman: The National Enquirer
made a photograph of the guy who
died and they gave it to me. I have
that, so first thing in the morning,
there he is...he’s Puerto Rican. So
I got a nice Hispanic liver in here,
I like hot spicy foods and I like to
dance the salsa.
PCT: You really encourage people
to be organ donors.
Hagman: Absolutely. Let me show
you. I have a nice stack of money
here, ten-thousand dollar bills, play
money, of course. I sit down on the
weekends and sign these and give
them away. People come up and
ask for an autograph and I give them
these. It has a lot of information on
it—for one thing, it has my birthday
on it so they can send me a birthday
card—and then it says This is not
worth the paper it’s printed on, and
on the back it says This is printed
on recycled paper…who not recycle
yourself? Become an organ donor.
PCT: You have a strong interest
in solar energy and alternative fuels.
Can you tell us about that?
Hagman: Oil is over in fifteen
years, you know. There won’t be any
oil, very little electricity. No cars, no
planes, no trains. They say, ‘Well,
we have coal’—80% of the cost of
coal is in the transportation--and the
transportation they use is diesel. So.
Go from there. Society as we know it
is over in about twenty-five years.
I solarized my whole home.
When the electricity went down in
Canada and the whole eastern coast
about three years ago, I said, that’s
kind of strange that they don’t have
anything to prevent that. I have to do
it for myself. So I solarized my whole
house. It cost $750,000. I have 98%
coverage, because in California you
can only cover it up to 98%. My bill
for last April was $13.50. In ’05, it
was $2,800. I’ll pay it off in about
two hundred years (he laughs). No,
no, it should be seven years—but the
price of electricity in California just
went up, in the last six months, 21%.
Next year, it’s going to go up 80%.
And so a lot of people are saying,
‘Am I going to eat or am I going to
have air conditioning?’
PCT: Hearing this sort of
commentary points out the fact that
you are not, as many believe, J. R.
Ewing in disguise. Describe the sort
of person whom you really are.
Hagman: What’s the Boy Scout
thing? Kind, generous, reverent? Just
take that Boy Scout thing and use
that. I’m just an ordinary boy from
Weatherford who struck it lucky.
What did I read about luck the
other day? Luck is when opportunity
meets preparation. That’s what luck
is…when you’re ready for that thing
that comes along. A lot of people
are not ready for that thing when it
comes along, or they’re not ready for
it. So it’s all about being ready—and
being very, very lucky.
PCT: One of your current
projects is FX Channel’s Nip/Tuck.
Tell us about that role.
Hagman: Nip/Tuck…well, all of
my life in television, about fifty years,
I’ve said ‘gosh, gee wiz’ and stuff
like that. And now you can get away
with--on cable--with saying almost
anything. It’s kind of refreshing for
me. I don’t know if you’ll enjoy it.
I’m not going to say too much about
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PCT: Tell about your interest
in and support of The James and
Dorothy Doss Heritage and Culture
Center of Parker County.
Hagman: The Doss family has
always been close to my family here
in Parker County, and they’ve been
wonderful to the county, especially
to Weatherford. They made this
wonderful statue of my mother that’s
up at the Weatherford Public Library.
They asked me to contribute some
stuff and I did.
We’ve given some hats, boots,
scripts—that sort of thing--for the
Mary Martin and Larry Hagman
Gallery. I’m donating a 12-gauge
shotgun that’s trimmed in 24-carat
gold. It’s a wonderful gun. (He holds
it in his hands and points out the
features.) The skyline of Dallas—
the skyline of 1978—is etched
down one side and on the other
an etching of Southfork Ranch. It
is a beautiful piece of work. I had
this made in England by Holland &
Holland. It took four years to make
and cost $100,000 at the time.
This is not photo engraving. This is
hand engraving by the famous Allen
brothers. These are the portraits
of the people in Dallas. Bobby, of
course, and Miss Ellie, and Jock and
Linda Gray, my wife—one of my
wives. (J.R.’s nemesis Cliff Barnes is
on the butt.) So this gun, it’s quite
something.
I gave my silver saddle. I have a
saddle made by Bowlin, which is a
famous saddle maker. But my wife
said, ‘They get that when I die.’ So,
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