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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the-lost-son" data-source="post: 430565" data-attributes="member: 672">At Southfork they are currently doing some renovations at the fan shop. They offer the biography of Howard Keel. I thought about buying it, but when I realized that there was just one chapter with approx. 10 pages about Dallas I read it there. Like all other cast members he called the show very professional (including Duffy and Hagman and their pranks). He wasn't close with any (including BBG). I read and liked Linda Gray's book too which was nice but included just a handful of pages on Dallas (the same btw with Joan Collins' book which included less than 10 pages on Dynasty, mostly Michael Nader.) It was a job for a few years which did not overshadow their whole life.After having been at the last two Southfork experiences/reunion I made the following observations:- The actors present were all cordial and professional towards and liked to be around  each other (excluding maybe Jesse Metcalf).- Some were closer (eg. Linda and Patrick or Dewitt and Barnes/3's a company) with each other but there wasn't any kind of dislike noticeable.- I somehow doubt that any actor has any indepth knowledge about the series/casting/writing or had any power/interest behind the scenes (It was mentioned for example that Angela Lansbury, the star of the 80s hit Murder she wrote, only got in her last season a contract which required her to stay on set for not more 12 hours). When the actors talked about the routines of doing their shows, it was all of the same: they get their schedules, stayed at the set till they were called and were glad when they did not have to stay too long. If you don't have any scenes together you hardly meet, eg. Secretaries/BBG having their first scene in S8. VP and PP didn't have many scenes together anyway.At these events they talk about about the same scenes over and over again - eg. Charlene Tilton and the wedding, Steve Kanaly and Mickey Trotter...I somehow believe that hardly any watched the show as a whole back then (months later when their individual scenes had been edited etc.) but for sure none of them watched the show since then. Every fan there knew weigh more about the show.So from an actor's perspective it's no wonder that the last years of Lorimar Dallas and the TNT Dallas felt like the golden years for them.There is the old saying - never meet your heroes. They all have their virtues and vices, but every interview I have read over the years had the word "professional" in it. So kudos to every show/actors who manage to give us the allusion of loving couples, family or best friends when in reality they are just "professional".</blockquote>

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