Can we see your Harvard

Can we see your Harvard M.B.A., J.R.?

Larry Hagman, who played J.R. Ewing in the popular CBS series "Dallas," told Tagesspiegel that while both Bush and J.R. came from the Texas oil industry, the president was not smart enough to be like J.R.

"J.R. was so smart he always found a way to win without violence ... he ruined his enemies financially or socially," said Hagman, according to an Agence France-Presse report.

The former actor, who also played an astronaut in the 1960s TV series "I Dream of Jeannie," called Bush a "sad figure: not too well educated, who doesn't get out of America much. He's leading the country towards fascism."

The German paper asked whether Bush would appreciate the accusation.

"It's all the same to me, he wouldn't understand the word fascism anyway," said Hagman, 71, who was in Germany to promote his autobiography.

If I'm lucky, maybe I'll wake up and find out Larry Hagman's career was just a dream that didn't really happen.

Posted by damian at February 28, 2003 02:50 PM