HELP WANTED

Blake’s Own Business: Robert Blake, of TV’s “Baretta” fame, is scouring the city for three people he met at the Arriba Restaurant in Pasadena on a Friday night about two weeks ago. He wants to find them so badly, he took out a 4x4-inch ad in the Pasadena Star News with a smiling picture of himself. “A simple request, from actor Robert Blake, please help make my holiday season special,” reads the ad. It seems that one of the three people who chatted with Blake at the restaurant mentioned knowing Blake’s niece. “It would mean a great deal to me if any one of these three people would call me,” says the ad. When contacted by The Times, Blake said he would rather let the whole thing rest and would give no details. “What’s going on here is a personal bit of strangeness, that’s all,” he said.