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How 'Arthur' Alcoholics Have Changed

1:32 PM PDT 4/8/2011 by Lindsay Powers

Dudley Moore's "lovable drunk" gives way to Russell Brand's "brat" as the perception of heavy drinkers has morphed in society, a casting director explains to THR.

In 1981's Arthur, Dudley Moore played a lovable drunk with a fatherly butler, Hobson (John Gielgud).

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