Alec Baldwin: Hollywood's King of Menace

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

http://www.amazon.com/Bresciani-Cashmere-Over-Calf-Dress/dp/B001UISDDC

I saw AB at a screening of a George C Scott desert-isle incest movie from the '70s last night, rockin' a black polo shirt and a bag of popcorn.

He also interviewed GCS's son Campbell afterward, did some impressions of Scott and John Huston, and complained about film negotiations where, as opposed to 20 years ago, they won't spend an extra $750 G to shoot an LA story in LA. "Oh, no no, we won't get that. We'll shoot it in Louisville..."

otoh, eff you Alec:

“Don’t dance on Ailes’ grave. He has children. And all men come to the same end.”

Update: Baldwin allegedly had someone holding a parking spot for him as he went to move his car, and someone swooped in and took the spot https://t.co/5XWh6EImZ5

— Gothamist (@Gothamist) November 2, 2018

gtfo 'holding a parking spot' in the village

maybe they can prosecute him for the DJT impression too

maybe his arrest will mean he can't do his trump on snl this week, a boon for people who still watch that fucking show

baldwin is great, obv

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

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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