Re: NY Daily News: Comie Artie Lange bares soul, talks of lost love and heroin use

On Dec 2, 6:32 pm, Drumrboy <drumr...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2007-12-02 10:45:40 -0500, Sue M. <batchi...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

From today's NY Daily News,

http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2007/12/02/2007-12-02_comic_artie_l...

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Comic







Artie Lange bares soul, talks of lost love & heroin use

BY LEO STANDORA
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Sunday, December 2nd 2007, 4:00 AM

Hard-living comic Artie Lange cracks them up on the Howard Stern radio
show but his private life is a lot less than a laugh riot.

The 40-year-old Jersey boy lives alone in a Hoboken apartment, he's
grossly overweight, diabetic, abuses booze and drugs and lots of
people are waiting for him to die.

All this could depress and anger some folks, but Lange shrugs it off
in an interview in Playboy magazine's January issue. He says it's
Yankee third basemen Alex Rodriguez who gets his goat.

"F------ A-Rod. Can A-Rod get one f------ hit in October?" the forever
Yankee fan asked. "A double down the line - something?"

Unable to resist a gag, Lange adds that Rodriguez is "a lot like Babe
Ruth. Before the playoffs last year he went to a hospital and promised
a dying kid he'd ground out to second for him. ... It's true ... I was
there. A-Rod pointed to second base."

For the record, A-Rod went 4 for 15 in the last postseason - three
singles and a homer.

Lange's work onstage and on radio, television and the movies have made
him a multimillionaire but he tells Playboy: "I'm sick of this s---.
I'm tired. I just want to retire."

One big regret, he says, was the end of his only long-term
relationship, a love affair with a New Jersey school teacher, that was
destroyed by his heroin addiction.

"I was in my mid-30s, and I was more stable than ever. I just couldn't
make it work."

Lange seems untroubled by artielangedeathwatch.com, a Web site
dedicated to predicting Lange's demise. But he admits he was bothered
by a Las Vegas TV station's recent report that he died at the Hard
Rock hotel.

"We caught it right before CNN was about to put it on the news ticker
that runs across the bottom of the screen. Thank God, because then my
mother would have seen it," he recalled.

Then, with a smile spreading across his face, he added, "I think it's
kind of cool that I would have made the CNN news crawl, though."

lstand...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Belushi, Farley....

What the hell is with fat comics and death wishes? I thought fat people
were supposed to be jolly...

Jeremy>-


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