Riding High With Artie Lange

Riding high with Artie LangeWhen you're on top in New York, it's a long way down. The drug-fueled, booze-soaked, lonely world of a dangerously funny manI imes like this are really hard," Artie Lange says in a slow, tired, asthmatic rasp. "Now is when heroin really seems like a good idea. How else am I going to come down from this?"Lange is sitting in the back of a black stretch limousine parked in the load­ing dock attached to Heinz Hall in Pittsburgh. Beads of sweat glisten in hi...