you could take your shirt off now and you would still be bobby ewing. >> yes, you would be. >> thereh wrong with that. first of all, i need help taking my shirt off. but it's a little different because, you know, i'm bobby ewing at 65 instead of 30. >> you enjoy life. >> i enjoy life now. i don't have to take my shirt off, so it is not as necessary. >> you have young hunks out there -- >> that's their job. >> that's their job. >> that was my job 35 years ago. >> your character now compared to then? >> wise. >> wise. >> you better be after all -- >> he's the patriarch. we started this show, celebrating 30 -- denial is such a powerful thing. 64th birthday, that's how we started the new series, with the birthday party. and so that's who he is. >> you have lost a very dear friend and, of course, the heart and soul of dallas. >> the best goldfish i ever had, but -- >> oh. >> you mean larry. >> larry would be the first one to laugh at that. >> yes. >> so how is it -- because sue ellen was here, she's always sue ellen to me, here two weeks ago, and she was saying he's there. you sense him a