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<blockquote data-quote="Kenny Coyote" data-source="post: 160431" data-attributes="member: 102">Ken Kercheval was an excellent actor and I can&#039;t imagine anyone else playing the role of Cliff Barnes. From all accounts here, in person he was a very nice guy. so for Cliff Barnes to be so easy to hate says a lot about his ability. I loved the Ewing family. Cliff wanted to destroy the Ewings so the battle lines were clearly drawn from the beginning. It takes a great antagonist to bring out he best from the hero, and Ken Kercheval and Larry Hagman brought out the best in each other. It&#039;s like any sports feud - if the fans weren&#039;t booing one guy so much, they wouldn&#039;t be cheering for his opponent so much.It was sometime fairly late in the series when Cliff admitted to Pam that the real reason he hated the Ewings so much is because they were a strong, successful family that bonded together in a crisis but the Barnes family wasn&#039;t like that. Cliff envied what the Ewings had and it made him bitter. It&#039;s like that old adage: You like to hear somebody else is doing well but you don&#039;t&nbsp; want to hear they&#039;re doing better than you.The Barnes Ewing feud was the best feud I&#039;ve ever seen in a&nbsp; TV drama and Ken Kercheval played his part very well. No matter how badly he got beaten by JR he would not go away. Toni posted an interview with Ken Kercheval where he said this: &quot;From the very beginning, Cliff would always get defeated by J.R.,&quot; he once said. &quot;Finally, I went to [writer-producer] Leonard Katzman and said, &#039;I&#039;m not sure exactly how to play this, because for this guy to keep coming back again and again, he&#039;d have to have gotten a lobotomy.&#039;That&#039;s an excellent point and still somehow Ken Kercheval found a way to be believable in that role. It says a lot about his ability as an actor.I don&#039;t know what Ken Kercheval died from but I hope his death was relatively painless and that he wasn&#039;t suffering. R.I.P. Ken Kercheval</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kenny Coyote, post: 160431, member: 102"] Ken Kercheval was an excellent actor and I can't imagine anyone else playing the role of Cliff Barnes. From all accounts here, in person he was a very nice guy. so for Cliff Barnes to be so easy to hate says a lot about his ability. I loved the Ewing family. Cliff wanted to destroy the Ewings so the battle lines were clearly drawn from the beginning. It takes a great antagonist to bring out he best from the hero, and Ken Kercheval and Larry Hagman brought out the best in each other. It's like any sports feud - if the fans weren't booing one guy so much, they wouldn't be cheering for his opponent so much. It was sometime fairly late in the series when Cliff admitted to Pam that the real reason he hated the Ewings so much is because they were a strong, successful family that bonded together in a crisis but the Barnes family wasn't like that. Cliff envied what the Ewings had and it made him bitter. It's like that old adage: You like to hear somebody else is doing well but you don't want to hear they're doing better than you. The Barnes Ewing feud was the best feud I've ever seen in a TV drama and Ken Kercheval played his part very well. No matter how badly he got beaten by JR he would not go away. Toni posted an interview with Ken Kercheval where he said this: "From the very beginning, Cliff would always get defeated by J.R.," he once said. "Finally, I went to [writer-producer] Leonard Katzman and said, 'I'm not sure exactly how to play this, because for this guy to keep coming back again and again, he'd have to have gotten a lobotomy.' That's an excellent point and still somehow Ken Kercheval found a way to be believable in that role. It says a lot about his ability as an actor. I don't know what Ken Kercheval died from but I hope his death was relatively painless and that he wasn't suffering. R.I.P. Ken Kercheval [/QUOTE]

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