Thinking Fans Comment Update July 22: pjs praises Search for Tomorrow’s man of yesterday … Cherry Ames remembers Stu and Jo … DS0816 wishes the young’ns could have seen Mr. Haines … and more. See Comments below.
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By Marlena De Lacroix
Larry Haines passed away July 17 at 89 in Delray Beach, Fla. How sad that is for soap fans! He was a character actor character’s actor. During 35 years on Search for Tomorrow, he delivered wit, wisdom, tears, inspiration, love, sympathy, excitement, sweetness, pathos and more. And he played all that in just one character, Stu Bergman.
Stu was Jo’s (the great Mary Stuart) best friend through the whole run of the show, but he was nobody’s side kick. The astounding versatility with which he played Stu made him the most human of soap characters. Any one of today’s overly plot-oriented soaps could use a drop of the heart and genuine human warmth Haines offered by just by showing up every day to tape Search for Tomorrow.
In 1986, I had the opportunity to work with Haines for two episodes of Search. The show was about to be cancelled and NBC was looking for newspaper publicity. So to write a story on what it was like to act on a soap, I was cast as [Read more...]
