Forty years ago this week, Dallas premiered on CBS – and changed TV history forever. At a time when network television was staid and dull, this Lone Star Peyton Place came on as a totally shameless melodrama full of sex, money, bad blood, family feuds, cowboy hats and shoulder pads – the first, best and most splendidly ridiculous of the prime-time soaps. It spun the saga of the corrupt Ewing family and their Texas oil empire, as they wheeled and dealed through bedrooms and boardrooms, running from 1978 to 1991. And what a cast...
- 4/2/2018
- Rollingstone.com
Politicians don't like to talk about sex -- a word usually proceeded by "scandal" -- but that didn't stop Dr. Oz from telling a room full of governors to have more of it during a talk broadcast on C-SPAN2 Monday morning. The celebrity cardiothoracic surgeon spoke about the balance between personal and state responsibility for health care during the National Governors Association's Winter Meeting. Also read: Happy 25th Birthday, C-SPAN2! When his audience went silent during a Q&A session, Oz took it upon himself to discuss an issue he said he had raised with...
- 2/25/2013
- by Greg Gilman
- The Wrap
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