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Fri 12 Dec 2006You looking at me?Amy Winehouse is back with a belting new album, a dope-free lifestyle and a new connection with her muse, she tells Jim Carroll. But it's not all gyms and macrobiotics, her relationship with the demon drink is still in full flow. Is she bovvered though?Her hair is a mess, her mascara is smudged and she may yet come a cropper on those high heels before she gets to her seat. One of the bottles falls to the ground, but she keeps on tottering towards the corner table. Solid citizens nursing early evening drinks turn away and go quiet. It is obvious that this lady has been drinking.