jr ewing on dallas and he was the loveable astronaut tony nelson on i dream of jeanie. we have more on his life and career and the sidewalk out there has been a flurry of activity as people come by to witness his star. reporter: and, already, we are having a legenus, harris. larry hagman dying of complications from cancer at the age of 81. he played the villain, people the world over loved to hate. and, in return. i get 25% of your earnings from all sources. reporter: remembered as j. r. ewing with the swagger and grit, he was one of the world s most famous actors, during the height of dallas s popularity. who shot jr? how many parodies were that of
gangnam style. harris: officially the most watched video on youtube. it now has more than 800 million views. gangnam style, first posted to youtube in july and in a month was a massive hit, people mimicking the rapper s move, we do that on fox report all the time. no! recapping our top stories, fans are remembering famed tv actor larry hagman. who passed away yesterday. he was 81. his career spanned decades and genres. best known for his starting roles as the villain, j.r. ewing in the hit show, dallas and the funny astronaut in the 1960s sitcom, i dream of jeanie and investigators are trying to pinpoint the cause of a massive
loved as good guy and hero for six decades, from i dream of jeanie to the reboot of dallas . we remember larry hagman. heather: but first, a fox news alert on our top story, thousands of protesters taking to the streets of egypt. rallying against a sweeping power grab by president morsi, this is a live look at tahrir square and the judges are being called on to walk off the job. the protest against the egyptian president. steve harrigan is streaming live from cairo, egypt. so, steve, how serious a challenge are the judges to morsi and his decree? heather, i think this move by the chief justices here in cairo and other judges across o challenge to president morsi, basically they re saying they will not go back to work, no prosecution is going on across
how many parodies, who shot jr. it was ground breaking tv. something you grow up with, you know, and it s just a memory you have of him working on those shows, like i dream of jeanie and dallas, you know, and i know he had come back to do another show of dallas and had a great success with that. so, it s doubly sad. fellow actors from dallas and other series remembering today, especially linda gray who played his wife sue ellen, with him in the last moments of his life and larry brought joy to everyone he knew, he was creative and generous, funny, loving and talented and i ll miss him enormously, patrick duffy who played the nice guy and the brother bobby said friday, i lost one of the greatest friends ever to grace my life. he was a fighter in the
who played his on-screen wife sue ellen, she says he brought joy to everyone he new, generous, funny and talented and she was going to miss him enormously. and his role as tony nelson on i dream of jeanie andlators in the his career, he took serious roles in oliver stone s nixon and primary colors he s been working on the second series or had been latest for tnt due to air in january. so word yet, gregg, from the network how the series will deal with hagman. the series was almost built around a character jr. hard to imagine where they go from here. gregg: dominic, thank you very much. it put dallas on the map as a city and glamourized the wealth you know, the cowboys and cattlemen and oil riches