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Item #147 on My List: Talked Shit to Alec Baldwin

post #1 of 20
9/4/08 at 8:11pm
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I'm not usually a gossip person, but this involves Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock, and ragging on My Name is Earl, so who am I to resist.

Alec Baldwin in his recent profile in the New Yorker:
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Some actors might have taken NBC’s avidity as a compliment. “I said, ‘Go fuck yourself,’ ” Baldwin remembered. “I saw it as network scumbags trying to fuck you around. Zucker, I like”—Jeff Zucker, now the president and C.E.O. of NBC Universal, was then running NBC television—“but everybody who works for Zucker I have reservations about.” He added, “If the show does succeed, it’ll be something of a fucking miracle, because NBC hasn’t done a fucking thing to help this show at all. This show is the red-headed stepchild in the lineup. They’ve gone out of their way to wring the last drops out of ‘My Name Is Earl’ and ‘Scrubs.’ Those shows are done! They’re cooked! Yet they do a one-hour episode of ‘Earl’! You’ve got to be fucking kidding me!”
Greg Garcia, creater of My Name is Earl's response:
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"Maybe the reason enough people aren’t watching 30 Rock to make Mr. Baldwin happy is because Alec Baldwin is so unlikable as a person. 30 Rock is a really funny show. And Alec Baldwin is funny as long as someone else is writing his words. When left to his own devices, he sounds like a psychotic narcissist who whines about being rich for 8 pages in The New Yorker.

Instead of blaming NBC, I think Alec should consider that some people in America may not want to watch a man who cusses out his own 11 year old daughter on a phone message, calling her a “rude thoughtless little pig.” It’s a shame that the people who produce such a funny show have to put up with such a distasteful man on a daily basis. It makes me thankful to have such a wonderful cast on My Name is Earl, a show that is still going strong and has helped bring an audience to 30 Rock over the last few years. You’re welcome, Alec.
I can see why Garcia would feel the need to talk back, but you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who watches both shows to and doesn't agree with Alec.
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post #2 of 20
9/4/08 at 9:48pm
That Alec Baldwin thing is really worth reading. It reminded me of my mental image of Bruce Willis from his last media exploits (reading aintitcool at 4 a.m., trying to reel in a fish while his ex-wife and her husband make out behind him on his boat): destroyed by a divorce, obsessed with his children, an open wound. Very goddamn sympathetic, and comical, like his performance on 30 Rock. At least on some level he realizes he's an excellent comic actor.

Worth quoting at length because it's a filled-out portrait, with elements of a performance:

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Originally Posted by Alec Baldwin
“After that, I did ‘Glengarry Glen Ross,’ where I only had a very small role, regardless of how appreciative people are of it. Then I did ‘Prelude to a Kiss’ ”—based on a very successful theatrical production, in which Baldwin starred—“and that was a bomb. In 1992, I did ‘Malice,’ with Nicole Kidman. And that movie was a very cookie-cutter thriller. It did pretty well. In ’93, I did the remake of ‘The Getaway,’ with my wife. That was a bomb. I did ‘The Shadow.’ That was a bomb. In ’94, I did ‘Heaven’s Prisoners.’ That was a bomb. In ’95, I did ‘The Juror.’ That was a bomb. In ’96, I did ‘The Edge’ and ‘Ghosts of Mississippi.’ And that’s when you hear the sound of the wheels of the train screeching to a halt. ‘The Edge’ and ‘Ghosts of Mississippi’ were my last shots at the arcade, so to speak. Both movies were out in ’97. They bombed.”
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Originally Posted by The New Yorker
“In East Hampton, I’m a nudist and I eat meat,” Baldwin—a vegetarian—had said before my visit, expanding on the idea that he lived a quite different life on Long Island than he did in New York. “I shoot deer with a bow and arrow. I smoke the deer meat and eat it every morning with my eggs and toast. I am a homosexual. I listen to rock music, loud.” [...] He gave me a brief tour of the house, which ended in a very large basement TV room, with pea-green walls, designed to please his daughter and her friends. Baldwin put on a DVD of “Strangers on a Train,” and offered a running commentary: “Watch those boats glide in—directors now would be cutting, cutting.” We watched up to the moment of the murder—the murder of a good man’s unkind wife. Later, Baldwin recalled an afternoon in a hilly part of Los Angeles, after he first separated from Basinger but when they were still in contact. Together, they looked at a house for Baldwin to rent. Baldwin walked a little way down a path until he found himself, to his surprise, looking down a sheer cliff. “You’ve got to come over here and see this!” he called back to Basinger. As he told me, “She moved forward, her body moved forward, but”—he mimed a little shake of the head, a glance at a watch—“she said, ‘No, no, come back, we’ve got to go. We’re late.’ And then I thought, She thinks I’m going to throw her off this cliff!”
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Originally Posted by New Yorker
He talked about Presidential politics, and an idea for a second book—about “the social and political and legal fabric of male and female sexuality”—and his hope that Anne Heche would play his girlfriend in the third season of “30 Rock.” We became slightly lost, and quite cold. We nearly ran aground. Baldwin’s spirits remained high; or, at least, his determination to be high-spirited remained strong. “I’m so glad we did this,” he said. “I’m so glad.” At one moment, he let out, as if for the first time ever, a cautious whoop of pleasure.
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post #3 of 20
9/5/08 at 4:31am
I love Baldwin.
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post #4 of 20
9/5/08 at 4:46am
If he's this crazy at 50, I cannot wait to see him at 75. I bet he's murdered Kim Basinger by then.
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post #5 of 20
9/6/08 at 1:05pm
Baldwin talks Palin, reacts to Earl writer
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PS: My apologies to the cast and crews of My Name Is Earl and Scrubs. In my frustration with NBC's reprehensible promotion of 30 Rock, I took an unfortunate swipe at both of those shows and that was not cool.

But, for Earl's creator, Greg Garcia, who referred to me as a "psychotic", I have only one question. Why are you Scientologists always rendering these medical opinions you aren't qualified to give?
Give em hell Alec!
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post #6 of 20
9/6/08 at 1:33pm
That Scientologist jab was perfect. Bravo. I think I love him. Personally, I don't see anythign wrong with calling an 11-year old a "rude, thoughtless little pig". I find it far more reprehensible that someone would use a private message to slander someone publicly.
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post #7 of 20
9/6/08 at 1:54pm
EARL does suck dick.
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post #8 of 20
9/6/08 at 1:55pm
In Baldwin's defense, Earl hasn't been funny in a while and the last season of Scrubs was just embarrassing.
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post #9 of 20
9/6/08 at 2:04pm
Alec's on the only great show from NBC's comedy line-up and he's certainly reminding everyone about it. He's crazy, but he's right.
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post #10 of 20
9/6/08 at 2:14pm
That scientologist line is fantastic.
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post #11 of 20
9/6/08 at 7:29pm
Baldwin isn't a Scientologist? Excellent, i'm glad someone isn't.
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post #12 of 20
9/7/08 at 12:33am
I want to join the Church of Baldwinology.
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post #13 of 20
9/8/08 at 10:54am


"Bring it, bitches." Go Alec. Earl's never been funny.
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post #14 of 20
9/9/08 at 2:36pm
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Originally Posted by Andrew Eaton View Post
Alec's on the only great show from NBC's comedy line-up and he's certainly reminding everyone about it. He's crazy, but he's right.
I'll operate under the assumption that The Office just slipped your mind.
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post #15 of 20
9/9/08 at 2:46pm
"World needs plenty of bartenders!"
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post #16 of 20
9/9/08 at 2:48pm
And Chuck. Which is way overshadowed by that shitty pile of crap called Heroes. Chuck, 30 Rock and The Office are NBC's only worthy shows.
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post #17 of 20
9/13/08 at 1:52pm
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Originally Posted by Martin Savage View Post
And Chuck. Which is way overshadowed by that shitty pile of crap called Heroes. Office, 30 Rock and The Office are NBC's only worthy shows.
I'm assuming you meant Chuck in your list of worthy shows, or does have NBC have two shows named Office?

Didn't know Baldwin writes for Huffington Post, way cool. The dude needs some counseling, though. Being so full of pain does seem to lend to better comic sensibility, but the fact that he half jokingly thought his wife thought him dangerous enough to throw her off the cliff (and all those other warning signs) speaks volumes about his bearings. If he got his shit together years ago he would have had the career Leo is enjoying today.
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post #18 of 20
9/14/08 at 5:24pm
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Originally Posted by sackley View Post
That Scientologist jab was perfect. Bravo. I think I love him. Personally, I don't see anythign wrong with calling an 11-year old a "rude, thoughtless little pig". I find it far more reprehensible that someone would use a private message to slander someone publicly.
^ This (but only if the kid deserved it).
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post #19 of 20
9/14/08 at 6:57pm
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Originally Posted by DARKMITE8 View Post
^ This (but only if the kid deserved it).
Deserve has nothing to do with it. He calls her a pig, she's a pig. Period.
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post #20 of 20
9/15/08 at 5:29pm
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Originally Posted by stelios View Post
Deserve has nothing to do with it. He calls her a pig, she's a pig. Period.
Well, that watch does cost more than my car.
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