the incredible JOAN VAN ARK returns to Brandon's Buzz! - May 29,2013

Slip this one in the "better late than never" slot: earlier in the spring, the glorious actress JOAN VAN ARK returned to the proverbial scene of the crime when she briefly reprised her most iconic and most beloved television role: that of ever-agitated Valene Ewing on TNTs vaunted reboot of the classic prime-time soap Dallas. Van Ark was my seventh guest all the way back in this shows nascent early days, and I was thrilled to welcome her back to Brandons Buzz for a sneak preview of the action, and though a series of crazy events in my life prevented me from getting this interview edited and assembled prior to the aforementioned Dallas episodes premiere, I suspect youll still enjoy hearing Joans invaluable insights about reuniting with her television family, about honoring the memory and incredible legacy of the peerless Larry Hagman, and about how it felt to slip back into poor Vals shoes some thirty years after she first donned them.

Joan Van Ark | Dallas | Ted Shackelford | Larry Hagman | Knots Landing