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Alec Baldwin: Good-bye, Public Life
mystery-ak:
http://www.vulture.com/2014/02/alec-baldwin-good-bye-public-life.html
Yesterday at 8:05 PM
Alec Baldwin: Good-bye, Public Life
By Alec Baldwin
As told to Joe Hagan.
I flew to Hawaii recently to shoot a film, fresh on the heels of being labeled a homophobic bigot by Andrew Sullivan, Anderson Cooper, and others in the Gay Department of Justice. I wanted to speak with a gay-rights group that I had researched and admired, so I called its local Honolulu branch.
The office number turned out to be some guy’s cell phone. I left him a message—I said, “I’m from out of town, I’m visiting Hawaii on business, I’d like to get some information on your group.” After two or three more calls, he answered the phone. I said, “Yeah, I’m the guy that called about your organization.” And he said, somewhat impatiently, “Okay, well, what did you want?” I said, “Well, let me put it to you this way, Nick. Your name is Nick? Nick, let me begin by asking you a question. Who would you say, by your estimation, is the most homophobic member of the entertainment industry currently in the media?” And he paused for a long count of four and said, “Um … Alec Baldwin?”
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Lipstick on a Hillary:
I've read other accounts of this today. I see he's blaming Brietbart and Rodger Ailes for his woes rather than his own poor choice of behavior.
Maybe instead of whining and playing the blame bame, Alex should ask say... Robert DeNiro how he survives living in NY without getting into public altercations and dealing with the fallout on a monthly basis? Can't be too hard.
mountaineer:
I'm surprised he didn't blame GWB while he was at it.
Here's another account, from the NY Post:
--- Quote ---Alec Baldwin is over NY — and his pals, too
By David K. Li
February 23, 2014 | 9:18pm
Alec Baldwin is fed up with New York — and is threatening to bolt big bad Gotham for the safety of LA’s gated communities.
“I probably have to move out of New York . . . Everything I hated about LA I’m beginning to crave,” the actor wrote in a New York magazine cover story.
“LA is a place where you live behind a gate, you get in a car, your interaction with the public is minimal. I used to hate that. But New York has changed.
“Manhattan is like Beverly Hills and the soul of New York has moved to Brooklyn, where everything new and exciting seems to be. I have to accept that.”
Baldwin, 55, who lives in the West Village with wife Hilaria, 30, and baby Carmen, took a p.r. beating in 2013 after making a series of hateful comments.
He called a male Daily Mail reporter a “toxic little queen” in June over a story that Hilaria tweeted at James Gandolfini’s Manhattan funeral.
And in November, Baldwin lost it with a photographer near his apartment, allegedly calling him a “c- -ksucking fag.” Baldwin confessed to saying “c- -ksucker” but denied using the anti-gay slur.
MSNBC later pulled his “Up Late” talk show.
In the magazine piece, Baldwin defended his homophobic behavior by name-dropping such famous gay pals as Cynthia Nixon and “Modern Family’s” Jesse Tyler Ferguson.
“Look, I work in show business. I am awash in gay people, as colleagues and as friends,” he wrote.
Baldwin went on to trash a litany of media figures.
•“Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough “is neither eloquent nor funny.”
•MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow is “a phony who doesn’t have the same passion for the truth off-camera that she seems to have on the air.”
•CNN’s Anderson Cooper is “the self-appointed Jack Valenti of gay media culture,” referring to the late president of the Motion Picture Association of America who created the film-ratings system.
Baldwin also put a weird spin on his clash with Shia LaBeouf that ended with the younger actor’s firing from their Broadway play, “Orphans.” LaBeouf was angry Baldwin didn’t know his lines at rehearsals.
“I asked, ‘If I don’t say my words fast enough, you’re going to just say your next line?’ I just said, ‘You realize the lines are written in a certain order?’ He just glared at me,” Baldwin wrote.
--- End quote ---
Awash in gay people, eh? :pondering:
flowers:
--- Quote from: mountaineer on February 24, 2014, 04:12:37 pm ---I'm surprised he didn't blame GWB while he was at it.
Here's another account, from the NY Post:Awash in gay people, eh? :pondering:
--- End quote ---
--- Quote ---•MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow is “a phony who doesn’t have the same passion for the truth off-camera that she seems to have on the air.”
--- End quote ---
LOL
evadR:
I flushed an Alec Baldwin down the toilet this morning.
I haven't missed it.
It's a damn shame that he decided to become such a POS. I really liked some of his movies.
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