I’m
getting a little fed up reading -- and writing -- about this temp job so I’ll
recount two little anecdotes about that time and then (thankfully) move on.
Because
Joslin was so connected and knew so many interesting people in entertainment
and in syndication, one day his lunchtime visitor was a woman who wrote the
“Heloise’s Hints” column. Only, the latter-day Heloise was the daughter of the
original, who wrote about all kinds of household hints back in the sixties, and
was syndicated by King Features (a member of Hearst Entertainment and
Syndication Group).
When I
met the woman -- a tall, slender, striking looking lady in her early forties
who had flowing, straight, mostly white hair -- I got up from my desk and
extended my hand: “I’m your biggest fan,” I enthused.
She
reacted with mock horror. “I hope not!”
In a
split second, I realized she was referencing the Steven King movie, Misery, where the Kathy Bates character
tells the writer she idolizes that very same thing and kidnaps him, for
starters -- then it all goes downhill from there.
“Uh,
okay, well, not THAT big a fan.” We both had a laugh, shook hands, and I knew
that this new Heloise was a very cool person. When her mother, the original
Heloise, died in 1977, daughter Klah Marchelle Heloise took on the mantle and
kept the column going. Now she has a website, of course: http://www.heloise.com/index.html
I was
very excited to meet Heloise, just because, I mean, here’s a person who’s kept
a very useful brand going for quite some time. . . she’s successful at doing
something unusual AND she seems very happy. Hooray for Heloise!
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