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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guzzler’s Frightening Hair" data-source="post: 431788" data-attributes="member: 2740">also, that line is kind of awkwardly cut into the scene in editing.   I get the feeling Jim wasn’t the greatest at just getting dialogue out there for takes, but when he had his moments that required more than just basic dialogue he could be really good, bringing an authentic “man’s man but with a touch of sensitivity underneath” presence not many actors had.In the famous “real power” scene you could feel how much it had hurt him to shout at Bobby like that as he sat at the table and glared out at the end of the scene.  Punk and Pat Powers looked “shook and embarrassed” and JR looked like a gleeful little brat who’d gotten his daddy, whom he worshipped, to do his dirty work for him.  Jim’s presence made that all possible.There’s an interview with the great Barry “Sheriff Fenton Washburn” Corbin where he talked about working with Jim, what a great guy he was, and also how he enjoyed his “dressing room martinis” and was much better with dialogue before lunch.here we go: [MEDIA=youtube]onaVNzTxDrw[/MEDIA]now *there* is an actor on the show who had a dyed-in-the-wool Texas accent - Barry Corbin!</blockquote>