Just yesterday, I was looking at the newsreel footage of the boys which
is one of the extras on the DVD "In This Our Life". Seeing Oliver in a
candid situation, it struck me just how seriously obese he really was.
Today he probably would be classified as "morbidly obese". I don't think
we can say with certainty that the strange diet hastened his death. He
had lived an unhealthy lifestyle for so many years that he might have
died just as soon without it. Sad!
John
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What DID surprise me was the information I found in the website containing
the personal letters of Stan Laurel, in which he recalled a visit from
Lucille in which she was "higher than a kite", then ruefully commented that
heavy drinking was the Hardys' "favorite indoor sport." I knew that Ollie
quaffed a few on occasion, but I wasn't aware that Lucille had a problem
along those lines.
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I hadn't. But even if Lucille wholeheartedly went along with a clearly stupid
diet, she didn't hold a gun to Babe's head and force him to go through with it.
Larc
| This doesn't surprise me. It's not uncommon for the widow to feel that "if
| only I'd done this" or "if only I'd done that" her husband would still be
| alive. My own mother, God rest her soul, spent nearly a year after my
| father's death fretting over how she didn't do enough to keep him alive,
| even though he was suffering from several forms of inoperable cancer. And
| I've heard other widows talk the same way. Generally they get over it after
| a while. Apparently Lucille didn't.
|
| What DID surprise me was the information I found in the website containing
| the personal letters of Stan Laurel, in which he recalled a visit from
| Lucille in which she was "higher than a kite", then ruefully commented that
| heavy drinking was the Hardys' "favorite indoor sport." I knew that Ollie
| quaffed a few on occasion, but I wasn't aware that Lucille had a problem
| along those lines.
That surprises me as well since I've always heard more stories about Stan's
problems with drinking than about Babe's and/or Lucilles's.
Larc