'Dallas' hit a chord back in the late Seventies and Eighties because it was the age of greed: here you have this unapologetic character who is mean and nasty and ruthless and does it all with an evil grin. I think people related to JR back then because we all have someone we know exactly like him. E
You can't plan for the future, because some guy's going to land in a spaceship with three heads and a big beak and take over everything.
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