Linda Gray stepped out in support of the Farrah Fawcett Foundation — showing up for cancer research year after year because losing someone you love has a way of making everything that once felt important suddenly feel very small. She sat down and said something about the Dallas years that stopped every fan who heard it cold — that everything back then just seemed yummier,

that the audience got to know the characters so genuinely they really cared for them, and that hanging out with Victoria Principal, Morgan Fairchild, Donna Mills and Nicolette Sheridan was simply perfect — seamless, nothing out of whack in any arena. The woman who was once nearly fired from Dallas after asking to direct — only to be saved when Larry Hagman threatened to walk out in her defense — has spent every year since proving that Sue Ellen Ewing was only the beginning of what she had to offer. At 85 Linda Gray is still showing up — for her friends, for cancer research and for every Dallas fan who never stopped loving her.