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Lou DiMaggio in heart attack ad

You’ve seen the commercials that have been airing. They’re part of the “Together We Can Prevail” series produced by Bristol Myers Squibb touting their various drugs for rheumatoid arthritis, cancer, AIDS, etc. You may have noticed the one of them featuring Lynn Redgrave that is in particularly heavy rotation.

We saw one featuring comedian Lou DiMaggio. The copy on the screen says that Lou had a heart attack in 2005 at the age of 46. The copy on the BMS website says that he’s now “(taking) care of his heart with diet, exercise and medication.”

We were in our hotel room, not paying attention to the TV, when, “Hey! There’s Lou DiMaggio!” We remember him from the 80s on the east coast. He moved to L.A. pretty early on in the game.