It all caught up with him Twenty-one years ago today

I'm speaking of Arthur Lake, I remember him as playing Dagwood Bumstead in the "Blondie" movie series. Over champagne french toast this morning in Natalie Schaefer's villa (Mother is having "only liquids"), I was aghast to be reminded of this, from Donald Wolfe's excellent book "The Black Dahlia Files":
and from John Gilmore's book "Laid Bare"

and this is about seven years before he died at the 1980 premiere of Neil Simon's Seems Like Old Times:Natalie Schaefer looked at Cobina, then me and said, "seems like old times". Yeeesh.