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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustard" data-source="post: 399002" data-attributes="member: 46">Dack Rambo was bisexual, and promiscuous, and he was only semi-closeted at the time that he was on Dallas. In other words, he hadn't "come out" (and didn't publicly until 1991), but he didn't exactly hide it either. This was at a time (1985-1987) when the AIDS scare was at its height regarding men who had sex with men (MSM), and with intravenous drug users. I'm convinced that this is why we never saw Jack Ewing in Dallas kiss a woman passionately on the lips, not even Grace, and earlier it was odd when Jenna suddenly went cold on Jack out of nowhere. The Rock Hudson and Linda Evans kiss on Season 5 of Dynasty (1984-1985), soon after which Hudson died of AIDS, would have also increased paranoia in the media and in the TV/film industry about MSM in real life kissing women on screen at that time. At the time, there were fears that AIDS could be caught from saliva, which gives added weight as to why Jack Ewing never had an on screen passionate kiss.Dack Rambo claimed that himself and Larry Hagman didn't particularly get on, and that their relationship worsened considerably once Patrick Duffy was back. I do think that Jack in Season 9 DVD should have been much more involved at Ewing Oil, as a much more ambigious type of character in terms of morality compared to Bobby, and not just involved in the Dimitri Marinos situation with J.R. and Angelica Nero. Whether Larry was involved in preventing Dack being further involved in the Ewing Oil storylines, who can say?</blockquote>

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