How Dallas Won the Cold War
Reason.TV’s Nick Gillespie remembers the heyday of Dallas, the uber-popular TV show that once boasted ratings higher than late 1970s’ interest rates. While it was a huge cultural phenomenon in the United States, the show’s greatest impact might have occurred in Romania, where it helped to topple the brutal Ceausescu regime. Says Larry Hagman, who played the villainous J.R., “”I think we were directly or indirectly responsible for the fall of the [communism]. They would see the wealthy Ewings and say, ‘Hey, we don’t have all this stuff.'”
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