Baldwin would end the night at an arcade warehouse playing "Galaga."
"I would play video games from, like, 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., and I would wind down. Then I'd go home and go to bed," Baldwin writes.
"This was the only way I could go 'beta' and go into that state I needed to be, where I could calm down and take my mind off everything. I didn't want to see anybody, talk to anybody, deal with anybody."
A "moment of clarity" came when he saw pity in the face of Julian, the person who ran the parlor.
"I was doing a show then ['Knots Landing'], making tens of thousands of dollars a week, which was part of the problem," he writes.
"Julian would put the key in the lock and open the door, and he would just kind of look at me like, 'Wow, I'm glad I'm not you.' "
Baldwin agreed. "You got no idea, Julian. Julian, I need you. I need you to get that key and open the f- - -ing door and let me in. I got to play 'Galaga.' "
― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Thursday, 15 January 2009 15:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Great American or Greatest American?
― Every Day Jimmy Mod Is Hustlin' (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 15 January 2009 15:21 (fifteen years ago) link
WOW O_O
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 15 January 2009 15:23 (fifteen years ago) link
i just went 'beta' reading that info
Good choice of game, it was far better than frickin' Galaxian.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 January 2009 15:27 (fifteen years ago) link
i liked centipede - also ive often thought working on a soap opera as an actor or a writer would be pretty amzing
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 15 January 2009 15:45 (fifteen years ago) link
going beta.
― Women can be captains too, you know? (jim), Thursday, 15 January 2009 16:05 (fifteen years ago) link
i mean that's a pathetic story but it's awesome.
― Women can be captains too, you know? (jim), Thursday, 15 January 2009 16:06 (fifteen years ago) link
I love him. The way he insulted Seacrest to his face at the Golden Globes was also awesome.
― Nicolars (Nicole), Thursday, 15 January 2009 16:07 (fifteen years ago) link
dudes he was high on coke and just needed to chill out and play some galaga - not really such a remarkable story - we all been there
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 15 January 2009 16:08 (fifteen years ago) link
o whatd he say to seacrest i missed that???
Seeing all sorts of reports now about him being hospitalized.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 11 February 2010 16:35 (fourteen years ago) link
released within an hour?
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Thursday, 11 February 2010 16:37 (fourteen years ago) link
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2010/02/alec-baldwin-examined-at-hospital-following-misunderstanding-according-to-rep.html
His daughter phoned 911 and Baldwin had to go to hospital to prove he hadn't taken pills?
― Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 11 February 2010 16:52 (fourteen years ago) link
OK, so he was completely stoned had taken one too many Ambien, and that's how he ended up at hospital. Where presumably he woke up going - where the fuck am I?!?!
― Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 11 February 2010 16:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Alec Baldwin offers advice to Charlie Sheen
Conan has moved on and his great talent is undiminished by his difficult experiences. I had wanted to say to him back then what I will now offer to Charlie. You can't win. Really. You can't. When executives at studios and networks move up to the highest ranks, they are given a book. The book is called How to Handle Actors. And one principle held dear in that book is that no actor is greater than the show itself when the show is a hit. And, in that regard, they are often right. Add to that the fact that the actor who is torturing their diseased egos is a drug addled, porn star-squiring, near Joycean Internet ranter, and they really want you to go.Granted, it didn't get real until you insulted them. And your suit may have real grounds.But you know what you should do? Take a nap. Get a shower. Call Chuck. Go on Letterman and make an apology. Write a huge check to the B'Nai Brith. And then beg for your job back. Your fans demand it. You will never win because when you are as big a douchebag as some of these guys are, they have no choice but to snuff you. (Do you secretly want to get snuffed? So you can go back and make movies?)Sober up, Charlie. And get back on TV, if it's not too late. This is America. You want to really piss off Chuck and Warner Brothers and CBS? Beg for America's forgiveness. They will give it to you. And then go back. You are a great television star. And you've got the gig. As I learned from closely observing Tony Bennett so I could impersonate him on SNL, this is supposed to be fun.PS...buy Cryer a really nice car.
Granted, it didn't get real until you insulted them. And your suit may have real grounds.
But you know what you should do? Take a nap. Get a shower. Call Chuck. Go on Letterman and make an apology. Write a huge check to the B'Nai Brith. And then beg for your job back. Your fans demand it. You will never win because when you are as big a douchebag as some of these guys are, they have no choice but to snuff you. (Do you secretly want to get snuffed? So you can go back and make movies?)
Sober up, Charlie. And get back on TV, if it's not too late. This is America. You want to really piss off Chuck and Warner Brothers and CBS? Beg for America's forgiveness. They will give it to you. And then go back. You are a great television star. And you've got the gig. As I learned from closely observing Tony Bennett so I could impersonate him on SNL, this is supposed to be fun.
PS...buy Cryer a really nice car.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 03:36 (thirteen years ago) link
haha his "here's the thing" podcast is both pretty good and really hard to take seriously
― goole, Friday, 13 April 2012 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/heresthething/
i mean, "so what" as bumper music. dude you're killing me.
― goole, Friday, 13 April 2012 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Friday, 13 April 2012 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
ok he just used the phrase "sensuous quotient" when talking to kristen wiig
― goole, Friday, 13 April 2012 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
Pink? Miles Davis? Ministry?
― da croupier, Friday, 13 April 2012 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
haha
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Friday, 13 April 2012 19:06 (twelve years ago) link
listening to the Kristen Wiig episode. alec works in this context, unsurprisingly
― Nhex, Friday, 13 April 2012 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
This MSNBC show is pretty good.
― Victor Immature (WilliamC), Saturday, 26 October 2013 02:41 (ten years ago) link
I missed it last week, but watched it tonight and it's a testament to his interview skills that I didn't flip channels while Chris Matthews was spitting all over the table talking about this and that. Michael Powell's half of the show was a far better read of what levels the show can probably reach.
Looking forward to the 2001 stars next week.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 26 October 2013 05:01 (ten years ago) link
http://pagesix.com/2013/11/26/msnbc-fires-alec-baldwin/
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 18:17 (ten years ago) link
Baldwin really used to be good, I think Lorne michaels ruined what made him good in the first place at some point. Kinda like how hanks' quest to be nu-jimmy stewart buried some of his best qualities.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 18:25 (ten years ago) link
i've heard AB's public radio show a couple times, lotta theatre folk, he's a decent interviewer. He got Patti LuPone to say she hated the music in Evita at first, humanized her in my eyes.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 18:28 (ten years ago) link
I hope WNYC doesn't fire him and end Here's The Thing. I really like those interviews: Seinfeld, Billy Joel, especially Elain Stritch.
― Bailey (Collins) Lover (Eazy), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 00:30 (ten years ago) link
Baldwin’s dismissal was decided on partly because of his diva-like behavior toward co-workers, a source said.Besides demanding a humidifier because he claimed the air at 30 Rock was too dry, Baldwin alienated staffers when he demanded a separate makeup room being used by a woman with cancer who is sensitive to hairspray.When Baldwin was told he couldn’t have his way, he allegedly bellowed at the top of his lungs, “I don’t give a f - - k if she has cancer or not, I want that f - - king makeup room.”
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD7PvtbkH0I (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 00:34 (ten years ago) link
i still love baldwin in miami blues
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD7PvtbkH0I (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 00:36 (ten years ago) link
When Baldwin's character on 30 Rock was told he couldn’t have his way, he allegedly bellowed at the top of his lungs, “I don’t give a f - - k if she has cancer or not, I want that f - - king makeup room.”
fixed, i hope.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 00:39 (ten years ago) link
he does seem to be a pretty intelligent guy wrapped in a huge ego
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 00:40 (ten years ago) link
:-(
Baldwin also spoke at length with us about MSNBC and the future of his podcast (or rather, the end of his podcast)—we'll have all of that tomorrow.
http://gothamist.com/2013/11/26/msnbc_cancels_alec_baldwins_show.php
― Bailey (Collins) Lover (Eazy), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 02:54 (ten years ago) link
― https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD7PvtbkH0I (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, November 27, 2013 12:36 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
young Baldwin was one of the all-time greats imo. Malice, Red October, Miami Blues. RIP.
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 03:20 (ten years ago) link
his glengarry cameo is brobait but still top notch. you watch him play that role vs how he plays every role now (or so it seems) and RIP indeed.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 06:11 (ten years ago) link
yeah hes great in ggr. cant take nothin away from him there. I like him in The Cooler too but i get what you mean about snl ruining him.
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD7PvtbkH0I (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 06:14 (ten years ago) link
love him in the departed but that's the best-case scenario for a post-SNL performance. maybe. didn't see him in blue jasmine, maybe it's different.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 06:25 (ten years ago) link
He's more of a background character in Blue Jasmine
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 06:29 (ten years ago) link
he really madoff well in that role though.
― tɹi.ʃɪp (Treeship), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 06:31 (ten years ago) link
HI DAYO!
― buzza, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 06:39 (ten years ago) link
― tɹi.ʃɪp (Treeship), Wednesday, November 27, 2013 12:31 AM (15 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
//celestial hi hat//
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 22:10 (ten years ago) link
http://www.vulture.com/2014/02/alec-baldwin-good-bye-public-life.html
― That's So (Eazy), Monday, 24 February 2014 05:28 (ten years ago) link
much long, very wind, so not read
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Monday, 24 February 2014 05:37 (ten years ago) link
lol thats an amazing read
― AIDS (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 24 February 2014 05:45 (ten years ago) link
datnng ace
― maralin mansion (color definition point of "beyond "color, eg a transient that), Monday, 24 February 2014 05:49 (ten years ago) link
I’ve had people come up to me and say, “You’re a great New Yorker. You’ve given your time and money to so many New York charities. You’re a great supporter of the arts. I like some of your movies—and some of your movies suck, actually.” (It’s New York, so people give you their unvarnished opinion.) But people in general had been very kind to me for years.
I wonder how many times outside of a charity gala someone has actually come up to him and called him a great supporter of the arts.
― da croupier, Monday, 24 February 2014 08:25 (ten years ago) link
That is very entertaining.... he's gen OTM about the new New York and MSNBC.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 24 February 2014 15:58 (ten years ago) link
kinda relieved he's given up the running for office thing, cuz let's face it lol temperament
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 24 February 2014 15:59 (ten years ago) link
A lot can be said about the Nicholas Cage vehicle Mandy, which was almost freakishly hyper-violent; however, I don't believe there was a single firearm in the film. Crossbow, hand-forged battleaxe, etc., but it didn't rely on guns. If we have a gun problem in this country (we do), then maybe Hollywood can start to leave them out of the picture, like cigarettes in every scene.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 25 October 2021 17:03 (two years ago) link
If you take away the guns from good actors, only the bad actors will carry guns
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Monday, 25 October 2021 17:04 (two years ago) link
A lot of people are messaging me about yesterday's tragedy that was an on-set firearms death (because I am a film armorer, for those who don't know).As both a human and a professional, it is extremely upsetting. My thoughts are with Halyna Hutchins' loved ones— SL Huang 黄士芬 (@sl_huang) October 23, 2021
― maybe these baps are legends (Noodle Vague), Monday, 25 October 2021 17:27 (two years ago) link
detailed thread with lots of info about gun safety on set
― maybe these baps are legends (Noodle Vague), Monday, 25 October 2021 17:28 (two years ago) link
that was a great thread, thanks for that.
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Monday, 25 October 2021 17:36 (two years ago) link
particularly the clarifications on how real guns are used vs props
Wow, very well done, thanks
― Through with “What’s the Buzz” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 October 2021 17:47 (two years ago) link
supposedly an assistant director shouldn't be the one handing the gun to an actor. it makes sense. the armorer had three guns on a cart, who's to say if the assistant director merely picked up the wrong one.
also I imagine it should have been shown to the assistant director first by the armorer to prove it was not loaded.
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Monday, 25 October 2021 17:54 (two years ago) link
even eerier is this movie is about an accidental killing. ick
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Monday, 25 October 2021 17:55 (two years ago) link
That was a great thread. It does sort of broach a different debate, especially in the CG age: when or why should *anything* dangerous be done in a movie? Car or motorcycle stunts (which have injured or killed people), helicopter stunts (which have injured or killed people), horse stunts (which have injured or killed people), explosions, guns, and so on. I just learned about this, re: Sam Fuller's "Shark!:"
During production, one of the film's stuntmen, Jose Marco, was attacked and killed on camera by a white shark that broke through protective netting. The attack was captured on film and prompted a photo spread in Life magazine. The title was changed to Shark! to cash in on the controversy
Not only did they change the name to "Shark!" they allegedly moved the alleged scene to the start of the movie. I say "allege" because I also read this, which introduces several layers of questions:
Marco was allegedly a stunt double for Burt Reynolds who was brutally attacked by a shark in 1967 while shooting an underwater scene near Manzanillo, Mexico, for a film appropriately titled Shark. According to Life Magazine, which did a story in 1968 on the filming, Marco was in the water in scuba gear alongside a subdued bull shark when a great white managed to make it through the nets protecting the area from the rest of the sea. It charged at the camera crew before launching at Marco and disemboweling the actor where he swam. Crew members tried to steer the shark away from Marco with spears, but the animal was undeterred, and the stuntman's resulting injuries were so severe that he later died at a hospital. Producers allegedly used the footage of Marcos' death in the opening scene in the movie, along with publicizing the incident as a marketing push. Director Samuel Fuller unsuccessfully attempted to have his name removed from its credits because he was dissatisfied with the editing of the film. However, a detailed investigation revealed that there was no official record of the attack, no record of a stuntman named Jose Marco, and no hospital records of the incident, although Marco was allegedly in a hospital for two days before he died. LIFE magazine had no comment.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 25 October 2021 17:57 (two years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_Evil:_The_Final_Chapter#Stuntwoman_injury_and_crew_fatality
i love this movie and this still lurks in the back of my mind when i watch it
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 25 October 2021 18:04 (two years ago) link
Exclusive reporting: Before the incident, a number of crew members had taken prop guns, including the gun that killed Hutchins to go “plinking" - shooting at beer cans with live ammo to pass the timehttps://t.co/TMYy00xZzv— TheWrap (@TheWrap) October 25, 2021
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 05:06 (two years ago) link
there it is. answers a lot of questions.
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 12:58 (two years ago) link
I have seen that headline a few times now and I still can't wrap my head around it because how fucking STUPID do you have to be to do this
― talkin' about his flat tire (DJP), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 13:36 (two years ago) link
I was figuring something like that might have happened.
― Through with “What’s the Buzz” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 13:36 (two years ago) link
If true, I can't think of anything more irresponsible on a movie set. That's actually infuriating.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 13:38 (two years ago) link
Yeah.
You'd think that blank firing guns for films could just be reserved exclusively for that use. i.e. NEVER EVER put real bullets in them. It’s not like there’s a shortage of guns out there.
― jmm, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 13:40 (two years ago) link
Was gonna speculate that some of those crew members were gonna wind up doing time for this but it sounds like there should've been so many redundancies in place to prevent this that it's hard to know how many people are ultimately to blame. This is like a full-blown systemic collapse.
― (a picture of a defecating pig) (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 13:52 (two years ago) link
There needs to be a system in place in order for it to collapse
― talkin' about his flat tire (DJP), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 13:53 (two years ago) link
Ugh
― Through with “What’s the Buzz” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 13:58 (two years ago) link
Weapons handler defense doesn't seem like a particularly good defense:
https://deadline.com/2021/10/alec-baldwin-shooting-rust-hannah-gutierrez-armorer-statement-halyna-hutchins-1234864743/
It's tantamount to saying "this is not my fault, because I didn't always know what was going on."
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 29 October 2021 22:20 (two years ago) link
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alec-baldwin-charged-manslaughter-fatal-shooting-set-rust-d-says-rcna7189
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 19 January 2023 16:09 (one year ago) link
thread title looking prophetic
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 January 2023 23:21 (one year ago) link
Charges against Baldwin were dismissed and production is resuming on the movie. Sooooo looking forward to when this thing hits Redbox.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/18/entertainment/alec-baldwin-rust-filming-to-resume/index.html
― peace, man, Friday, 21 April 2023 13:07 (one year ago) link
if i had shot and killed someone on the set of a movie i would simply not resume production under any circumstances
― rick semper moranis (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 21 April 2023 13:53 (one year ago) link
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alec-baldwin-indicted-manslaughter-charge-rust-shooting-rcna134564
SANTA FE, N.M. — Alec Baldwin is headed to trial over the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who was killed in 2021 after the actor's prop gun fired a live round of ammunition on the "Rust" film set.The decision to indict Baldwin was announced Friday after a New Mexico grand jury heard evidence presented by special prosecutors Kari Morrissey and Jason Lewis. He was charged with one count of involuntary manslaughter.---If convicted, Baldwin could face up to 18 months in prison. A trial date has not been set.
The decision to indict Baldwin was announced Friday after a New Mexico grand jury heard evidence presented by special prosecutors Kari Morrissey and Jason Lewis. He was charged with one count of involuntary manslaughter.
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If convicted, Baldwin could face up to 18 months in prison. A trial date has not been set.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 20 January 2024 00:17 (four months ago) link
The grand jury's indictment comes after the same New Mexico prosecutors dismissed the involuntary manslaughter charges against Baldwin in April.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 20 January 2024 00:42 (four months ago) link
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/rust-prosecutors-allege-armorer-hannah-211536642.html
― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 23:53 (four months ago) link
yeah, it's kind of shocking that there was even a single round of live ammo on set
Baldwin can probably share some blame for running a shoddy production, but I honestly don't see how he could've known there was a live round in the chamber
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 1 February 2024 00:45 (four months ago) link
Hannah Gutierrez found guilty of Involuntary Manslaughter
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/06/rust-shooting-hannah-gutierrez-reed-verdict
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 23:36 (three months ago) link
The state also claimed that she was using marijuana during the production. Gutierrez-Reed’s defense said that the prosecution had failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that she brought live rounds on to the set and argued that Hutchins’ death was the result of Baldwin pointing the weapon at the cinematographer.“It was not in the script for Mr Baldwin to point the weapon,” defense attorney Jason Bowles said. “She didn’t know that Mr Baldwin was going to do what he did.”
“It was not in the script for Mr Baldwin to point the weapon,” defense attorney Jason Bowles said. “She didn’t know that Mr Baldwin was going to do what he did.”
...
look I definitely think more than just Gutierrez-Reed is responsible here, and Baldwin likely lied about not pulling the trigger, but she really needed some better defense attorneys.
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 March 2024 01:51 (three months ago) link
such a weird case.. why in the hell were there live rounds on a movie set to begin with? Though Brandon Lee was killed by a blank I think, or at least that was the story at the time
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 7 March 2024 01:55 (three months ago) link
it was a dummy cartridge that was made from a live round and got lodged in the barrel and essentially pushed out and into Lee by the blank when fired
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 March 2024 01:57 (three months ago) link
xpThe most believable story is that some of the cast/crew would go out shooting with live ammo when the movie was not being made, using the production's guns, and that the separation of live ammo from blanks was done poorly.
― nickn, Thursday, 7 March 2024 18:32 (three months ago) link
this was a very good interview with Chad Stahleski and he talks a bit about guns on movie sets.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/john-wick-filmmaker-chad-stahelski-sequels-oscar-stunt-snubs-firearms-1235343132/
So much of your job is about safety, and you started your career in 1994 doubling for Brandon Lee after he died in an on-set accident with a gun while filming The Crow. How did you process the Rust shooting?What happened on Rust … I wasn’t there, but the accidents that I’ve been around, seen or been part of have always been human error. It’s never mechanical. So, let’s just talk about firearms. Back in the day, when it all started, they came up with blanks. A blank is a bullet without the projectile, but they couldn’t put you and me in the same shot, 5 feet apart, and one of us pull the trigger. The concussive force coming out at the end of the barrel would be enough to shatter your skull. Accidents like that did happen and people died because of it. But in the past 10 years, they’ve come out with electronic guns, plug guns where it is impossible for anything to come out of the barrel and total CG. That’s the way we do it. That technology is out there for everybody.Why isn’t everybody using it?My feeling is that there’s no reason to have a live firearm on set. We can create cities and spaceships and Godzilla and all these things. We have the technology to do the same with firearms. But, for the last 100 years, Hollywood’s been using real firearms. And for prop houses, armorers or supply houses to switch over, it would make their entire stock of real firearms useless. It comes down to the fact that it would cost certain people a great deal of money to switch over. No one wants to say that, but that’s the real reason. You don’t need firearms. The alternative is just going to cost you more money
What happened on Rust … I wasn’t there, but the accidents that I’ve been around, seen or been part of have always been human error. It’s never mechanical. So, let’s just talk about firearms. Back in the day, when it all started, they came up with blanks. A blank is a bullet without the projectile, but they couldn’t put you and me in the same shot, 5 feet apart, and one of us pull the trigger. The concussive force coming out at the end of the barrel would be enough to shatter your skull. Accidents like that did happen and people died because of it. But in the past 10 years, they’ve come out with electronic guns, plug guns where it is impossible for anything to come out of the barrel and total CG. That’s the way we do it. That technology is out there for everybody.
Why isn’t everybody using it?
My feeling is that there’s no reason to have a live firearm on set. We can create cities and spaceships and Godzilla and all these things. We have the technology to do the same with firearms. But, for the last 100 years, Hollywood’s been using real firearms. And for prop houses, armorers or supply houses to switch over, it would make their entire stock of real firearms useless. It comes down to the fact that it would cost certain people a great deal of money to switch over. No one wants to say that, but that’s the real reason. You don’t need firearms. The alternative is just going to cost you more money
― omar little, Thursday, 7 March 2024 19:31 (three months ago) link
Sentenced to 18 months
https://deadline.com/2024/04/hannah-guitierrez-reed-sentenced-rust-shooting-1235885923/
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 15 April 2024 20:30 (one month ago) link
i'd be a lot more sympathetic if she hadn't been reported as reckless and aloof on the set and continued to double down that it wasn't her fault even days before sentencing
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Monday, 15 April 2024 20:33 (one month ago) link
otoh, that doesn't mean she's wrong that working conditions were awful and that it didn't play a role.
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Monday, 15 April 2024 20:34 (one month ago) link
Baldwin saying he didn't pull the trigger was gross, esp since it's now been proven that he obviously did
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Monday, 15 April 2024 20:35 (one month ago) link