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"I talked to her last a couple of years ago when I was working not the Planet of the Apes book. She was still as irascible as ever but in declining health…"
Lois possessed a mind like a steel trap.
Her thinking was as sharp as a tack (GEEZ, how many more crusty old metaphors can I come up with here???) right up to the end!
Her health issues may have kept her a near prisoner in her home, but that brain of hers fired on all cylinders until her eyes closed for the last time.
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Nov 5, 2015 - 8:38 PM
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Howard L
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She was a "lurker" here for years while working for Jerry. She monitored the activities at several film score related websites, with, naturally, a focused interest in anything that related to her employer.
We had a great conversation and hit it off and suddenly I had Jerry's home phone number that Lois would answer. On some days I called and to my excitement, Jerry would answer himself and was always cordial and pleasant and pretty much knew me as Lois' friend.
I had several wonderful conversations with Lois before I moved to L.A. from Ohio--she was a wonderfully funny and knowledgable person, full of great stories.
This is great stuff. Here we are a bunch of film music nutsos inhabiting a messageboard with you guys having had a direct contact to one of our legendary objects of composing adoration. But oh, the irony, it's courtesy of the 'elusive' Mr. G's worst nightmare, The...Dreaded...F...S...M. But he proved anything but elusive for those of us who met him. In most cases  . And the thought that he lurked, even if in a second-hand way, is positively delicious. And Ms. Carruth sounds like a real peach.
I can't help but wonder if I have the material for a book???
If they ask me, you could write a book...perhaps aided by one of our resident authors, the equally elusive PN Gwynne--er, Jones.
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Nov 6, 2015 - 7:04 PM
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Howard L
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You know, something more about this thread is weighing on my mind. I don't know if it's common or rare that devotees of hobbies like ours that involve aspects of the entertainment world, or for that matter ones in the sports world, and for which the Internet is the source of the "community," are able to share such a wealth of personal encounters, direct and indirect, as expressed by FSMessageboarders through the years. This probably would not be happening if we were just a bunch of wide-eyed fanboys. Which we may have very well started out as!
Jerry Goldsmith's personal assistant is quite an ongoing contact to have made, in this regard. You guys could have really blown it but to your credit you kept things classy. It would have been easy to put on Spock ears, if you catch my drift. This has me reminiscing, again, of the time a bunch of us met up in Detroit and sat in a Marriott Center hotel room and devised a plan of convincing Mr. G to meet with us in a private setting for a quiet round of film music appreciation. It wasn't meant to be but if it were, I don't doubt we'd have kept things classy, too. And the personal encounters we ended up having with him over the 3-day weekend render this speculation reasonable.
I guess what I'm trying to say is we have experienced a pretty good sense of fulfillment in all this, or at least a piece of one, no?
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Howard L, Jefferson… I love you!
I think these message boards cause relationships to begin.
That is certainly true with you and I, Jefferson.
In the case of Lois Carruth, OUR relationship began right here.
She and I enjoyed over a decade of love together, and THIS is where it started!
Howard, my dearest friend…I want to meet you.
I so wanted to meet Lois, face to face, but that isn't possible now.
Howard L, Jefferson, my dear friend, is it possible for us to meet?
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