How Larry Hagman couldn't have been further from his fiendish
alter ego JR Ewing  LARRY HAGMAN always relished playing Texas
oil baron and general all-round meanie JR Ewing, perhaps in part
because the character was his alter ego.  Evil oil baron No
Larry Hagman was a little lamb Evil oil baron? No, Larry Hagman
was a little lamb []  Where JR was amoral, devious, malevolent
and exhibited psychopathic tendencies, the man who portrayed him
was generous, thoughtful, eccentric and in an ironic twist
desperately concerned about the environment.  Hagman once said
that going green over the past decade was his "penance" for
having made the Ewing oil barons "so damned charismatic".  And
where beloved villain JR was a serial adulterer Hagman was
happily married for 58 years to the woman around whom his life
revolved.  His devotion to Maj was so great that his dying wish
was that Linda Gray, who played his onscreen wife Sue Ellen,
would help care for Maj, who is suffering from advanced
Alzheimer's having being diagnosed