STAY WELL

In full-page ads this week in the Hollywood Reporter and Daily Variety, actor Carroll O’Connor not only thanked friends and fans for their support during his recent surgeries but also offered lifesaving advice. “When your good doctor tells you to take the latest kind of cardiograph, and the latest is miraculous in what it can reveal about your heart, don’t postpone, don’t evade, don’t content yourself with the fact that you’re feeling swell. The new cardiograph may prove you’re right, and if it does, fine! Celebrate! And stop smoking!” As for his own heath following coronary bypass and gallbladder surgeries in March, he wrote, “The old pump is delivering, for the first time in many years, full volume at full strength. I look forward certainly to better health in general, and even, possibly--though I hate making big promises--to having a pleasanter personality.”