Alec Baldwin: Hollywood's King of Menace

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.

http://pagesix.com/2013/11/26/msnbc-fires-alec-baldwin/

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.

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.

I hope WNYC doesn't fire him and end Here's The Thing. I really like those interviews: Seinfeld, Billy Joel, especially Elain Stritch.

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.”

lol

i still love baldwin in miami blues

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.

he does seem to be a pretty intelligent guy wrapped in a huge ego

:-(

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

i still love baldwin in miami blues

― 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.

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.

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.

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.

He's more of a background character in Blue Jasmine

he really madoff well in that role though.

HI DAYO!

he really madoff well in that role though.

― tɹi.ʃɪp (Treeship), Wednesday, November 27, 2013 12:31 AM (15 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

//celestial hi hat//

http://www.vulture.com/2014/02/alec-baldwin-good-bye-public-life.html

much long, very wind, so not read

lol thats an amazing read

datnng ace

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.

That is very entertaining.... he's gen OTM about the new New York and MSNBC.

kinda relieved he's given up the running for office thing, cuz let's face it lol temperament

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

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"

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.

his brand of assholism is just so boring

well, he's from Long Island.

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.

some good shia content in this

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

You should probably get rid of all the cars instead tbrr

http://observer.com/2014/11/love-ride-the-alec-baldwin-relationship-advice-series/

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

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

It has a lot of topless Baldwin in it

not my type rlly (mooks from LI)

This easily surpassed my expectations. Three splendid performances, perfectly pitched comic noir. And showcases Miami evilly.

yeah Miami Blues is great. are any of George Armitage's other movies besides Grosse Pointe Blank any good? His first writing credit was this hilarious-sounding Corman flick: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065760/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_10

Nick Pinkerton speaks highly of Vigilante Force.

re MB, never turn away from Shirley Stoler in a pawnshop.

http://ww3.hdnux.com/photos/23/55/77/5169134/5/696x696.jpg

interview with George Armitage, director of Miami Blues -- which is out today on Blu-ray from Shout! Factory.

http://www.filmcomment.com/entry/interview-george-armitage

Excellent interview. GPB is as good as Miami Blues; I didn't know the script went thru so many cogs.

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baldwin really should have played liberace

"Jason, the camera is here. Over here. HERE. JASON. JASON! Oh fuck it, take the picture."

no combination of any two of those people together makes any sense to me let alone four

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.

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If convicted, Baldwin could face up to 18 months in prison. A trial date has not been set.

The grand jury's indictment comes after the same New Mexico prosecutors dismissed the involuntary manslaughter charges against Baldwin in April.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/rust-prosecutors-allege-armorer-hannah-211536642.html

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

Hannah Gutierrez found guilty of Involuntary Manslaughter

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/06/rust-shooting-hannah-gutierrez-reed-verdict

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.”

...

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.

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

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

xp
The 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.

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

Sentenced to 18 months

https://deadline.com/2024/04/hannah-guitierrez-reed-sentenced-rust-shooting-1235885923/

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

otoh, that doesn't mean she's wrong that working conditions were awful and that it didn't play a role.

Baldwin saying he didn't pull the trigger was gross, esp since it's now been proven that he obviously did