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With “Coyote vs. Acme,” Ian Frazier, a soft-spoken reporter and humorist, has finally gone Hollywood.Ian Frazier, who has written for The New Yorker since the 1970s, in Montclair, N.J.

His disclosure in an interview revived a key question about sobriety: whether someone who once drank dangerously can ever drink moderately.Brad Pitt last year. “I had taken things as far as I could take it, so I removed my drinking privileges,” he told The New York Times in 2019.

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