 At the insistence of his old friend Woody's son, Arlo Guthrie, however, he did appear, playing himself as a preacher at a 1960 evangelical meeting, in the film "Alice's Restaurant" (1969), based on Arlo's hit song of that name.Hays, who had always been overweight, had been diagnosed in 1960 with diabetes, a condition the doctors thought he had probably suffered from, along with TB, for many years previously.This led to a heart condition and he was fitted with a pacemaker.