Article: LEARY IS LEERY OF SIMILAR ROLES.(PREVIEW)

Byline: YARDENA ARAR - Los Angeles Daily News

Denis Leary doesn't smoke as much as he used to. Either that, or the cold he was nursing during a recent visit to promote "The Ref" had temporarily slowed the rate of Marlboro consumption.

But that's not the only apparent change. Wearing dark glasses ("My eyes have huge bags under them from not sleeping") and speaking at something distinctly below warp speed, Leary is somehow different from the abrasive, in-your-face, rebel-with-many-causes of his old MTV spots or his "No Cure for Cancer" show.

He's a New York City -based movie actor now, with a dozen big-screen credits of varying importance ...

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