The New York Observer profiles ’70s songwriter Paul Williams.

�When I got sober, I weighed 187,� he said. �I weigh 137 now. When I�d run out of cocaine, I�d eat everything. I was a serious cocaine addict, and then all the empty calories in vodka.� How bad did things get? Bad enough that he wrote the songs for The Muppet Christmas Carol while on drugs.

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