Michael Vale, the character actor who starred in more than 100 Dunkin' Donuts commercials as the early-rising "Fred the baker" and joked that he got paid in doughnuts, has died. He was 83.
Mine seemed to have extra sprinkles today. I thought it was because they were trying to get rid of the leftover red and green post-Xmas. Perhaps it was a tribute.See his offensive-to-some, hilarious-to-me-when-I-was-ten comedic work in action here. For years, within the young McNamara clan, the universal symbol for dressing up as a woman was to hold your finger over your lip, even if you were even less likely to have facial hair then than you are now (which is still not likely)
