A Tribute to Larry Haines and Mary Stuart |
| Published: July 28, 2008, 8:55 pm |
| Tags: tributes, joanne tate, larry haines, mary stuart, search for tomorrow, stu bergman |
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I think I have been watching soaps since I was born. The thing about soaps is that you can always kind of pick up after going away for a period, and within a week of half-assed watching it’s like you never missed a beat. And, soaps are something that can be watched either passively, or with full attention. You’ll still kind of get it, as long as the tv is tuned into the same show every day. It is for that reason that I can actually pay tribute to Larry Haines, and mean it. My mother was actually a work at home mom when I was growing up (don’t get any funny ideas; she was a licensed cosmetologist and did hair in the basement of our home), so I wasn’t a latchkey kid. Mom was always there, and so was the television. And so were all the soaps that I kind of “watched” if I was hanging out with her. Half the time I didn’t understand what was really going on, being a kid and everything, but I knew the characters. One of the shows she used to watch [ Full article ] |
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