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Wasn't Michael Landon kind of a dick?


I've heard or seen little hints that maybe he was not the super nice and wholesome guy that he portrayed on the small screen.

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A few hints but few are around to confirm what has been said in recent years. His Bonanza co-stars such as Lorne Greene and Dan Blocker have been gone for decades. Most of the LHOTP co-stars worked at a time when mouths were kept shut and in general gossip was discouraged. The go for broke approach such as George Takei on William Shatner is more the exception than the rule.

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Takei is a whiner, still holding a grudge over perceived slights that allegedly happened nearly sixty years ago. He needs to grow the F up and move on.

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Yes, he was. He was a small man with classic "Short Man Syndrome" with Narcissistic Personality Disorder on top of that. And you can tell by LH's storylines that he was sadistic too. But oh how he laughed, that overindulgent laugh. I guess that was supposed to cover his major failings as a human being.

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