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  • Koren Shadmi for The Wall Street Journal Given my own reputation both cultivated and real, it was strange that I'd never been to Key West, an off-the-grid asylum for weirdos and outcasts, drug smugglers and literary types, who sank into the hard-living but easy-breezy local vibe, often fatally, as if it were quicksand.

    Cars, Cats and a Stranger for a Wife Tommy Chong 2011

  • Bridges 'drunken, hard-living cowboy is a variation of an American archetype.

    Superb Jeff Bridges strikes rich notes in 'Crazy Heart' 2009

  • Gainsbourg's determination to maintain this image of a doomed, hard-living poet an alter ego he dubbed "Gainsbarre" undoubtedly undermined his health.

    Death Is Not the End Andrew McKie 2011

  • Just don't confuse Angie with de Matteo's turn as hard-living, scantily clad Adriana on The Sopranos, which won her a supporting-actress Emmy in 2004, as well as a Golden Globe nomination.

    'Desperate' times for Drea de Matteo 2009

  • Jeff Bridges plays Bad Blake as a broken-down, hard-living country music singer.

    Fox Searchlight acquires rights to Crazy Heart 2009

  • A hard-living alcoholic whose career was threatened by her drinking, she's sober and struggling, playing this difficult role while dealing with the aftermath of her former life.

    Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Applause Marshall Fine 2011

  • Pettis is 50 years old but could be taken for a hard-living version of a man 10 years younger (think Sam Shepard, with thick, tousled black hair).

    Musical Chairs 2009

  • This relies, in part, on race to explain how supposedly hard-living voucher holders are ruining once nice and mostly white neighborhoods: "Because Section 8 recipients in some areas are mostly black or Latino, almost any enforcement effort can be denounced as discriminatory."

    Section 8 Helps Many, Though Program Has Problems 2011

  • "Just because people have addictions and dysfunction, that doesn't mean there isn't love in the family," said Macy, who began the session with a series of dry-witted comments about preparing to play hard-living alkie Frank Gallagher.

    Comic-Con: Shameless Stars on Nudity and Alcohol 2011

  • Pettis is 50 years old but could be taken for a hard-living version of a man 10 years younger (think Sam Shepard, with thick, tousled black hair).

    Musical Chairs 2009

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