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
I think he's right to call out the media for fake and exaggerated concern-mongering over isolated uses of slurs. That said I feel like Alec Baldwin expects me to care a little too much about the struggles of Alec Baldwin
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Monday, 24 February 2014 16:08 (ten years ago) link
i believe that hes not a virulent homophobe or whatever but hes just so un-self aware and bad at making a case for himself lol... also its so cool that he says tranny like 3 paras in while trying to prove how sensitive and cool he is
i did laff at "Mika B. is the Margaret Dumont of cable news"
― AIDS (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 24 February 2014 16:24 (ten years ago) link
the arteries of the country are now clogged with hate
It's always amusing to me when rich white dudes discover that people are mean.
― sent as gassed to onto rt dominance (DJP), Monday, 24 February 2014 16:27 (ten years ago) link
his brand of assholism is just so boring
― condo associations are people my friend (will), Monday, 24 February 2014 16:29 (ten years ago) link
well, he's from Long Island.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 24 February 2014 16:32 (ten years ago) link
also I am sick of the Gay Police calling "cocksucker" etc as the equiv of the N-word. I use "cs" on motorists who swerve in front of my pedestrian ass now and then, but we are all potential cocksuckers, and I think it's a noble thing to aspire to.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 24 February 2014 16:34 (ten years ago) link
some good shia content in this
― goole, Monday, 24 February 2014 17:36 (ten years ago) link
Since he's not gonna leave town, can we plz just get rid of the bike lanes?
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/alec-baldwin-arrested-flare-up-cops-manhattan-sources-article-1.1790267
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 12:18 (nine years ago) link
You should probably get rid of all the cars instead tbrr
― Diddley Hollyberry (Phil D.), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 12:44 (nine years ago) link
http://observer.com/2014/11/love-ride-the-alec-baldwin-relationship-advice-series/
― forbodingly titled It's True! It's True! (Eazy), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 17:38 (nine years ago) link
OH DEAR
that guy is one of my brother's best friends, i've known him since i was... 4? i had no idea about this until he posted it on FB. he was one of corey's groomsmen at the wedding a few months ago. WAU
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, 20 November 2014 16:51 (nine years ago) link
someone tell me i shd go see Miami Blues for the first time even tho gabbneb and Matt A love it
http://www.bam.org/film/2014/miami-blues
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 16:05 (nine years ago) link
It has a lot of topless Baldwin in it
― the incredible string gland (sic), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 21:42 (nine 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (two 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks ago) link