1984 Dallas Grand Prix and would continue until 30 minutes before the start (the repairs involved a backhoe digging up the broken asphalt and replacing it with quick-dry cement). Niki Lauda and Alain Prost tried to arrange a boycott among the drivers, but Rosberg insisted they should race. Bernie Ecclestone did not want to have 90,000 disappointed fans at the circuit, and viewers around the world, so the race went off with Larry Hagman (J. R. Ewing from the television series "Dallas") waving the green flag to start the parade lap. Mansell led for almost half the race from his first pole position. Derek
David White (actor) lucrative advertising accounts. This is the role for which he would become best-known both during his life and posthumously. Larry Tate's baby boy Jonathan was named after White's son. Following the end of "Bewitched", White was a popular character actor on numerous television series for the next decade, ranging from "The Love Boat", "Remington Steele", "The Rockford Files", "Columbo: Identity Crisis", "What's Happening!!", "Rhoda", "Quincy, M.E.", "Cagney & Lacey" and "Dallas". He played the role of J. Jonah Jameson in the pilot episode of the television series "The Amazing Spider-Man". His final role came in 1986 on an episode of