The New York Observer profiles

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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