Alec Baldwin: Hollywood's King of Menace

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.

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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

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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

if you forget Jack Donaghy he's done little of note this century

podcast surprisingly excellent tbh

seinfeld coffee things excellent

ah right I'm not a terrible man for the podcasts myself so haven't heard it.

the seinfeld thing is good but it's an interview. he's personable and witty when he's with pals, and not with folk who have the temerity not to respect a pedestrian "holding" a parking space

my friend's mother-in-law was a teacher on Long Island, and she had all the Baldwins in class

https://variety.com/2021/film/news/alec-baldwin-rust-incident-santa-fe-1235094931/

Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun on a set in New Mexico on Thursday, accidentally killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza.

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what the fuck

Holy shit

I wonder how it must feel to wrongfully kill someone...https://t.co/WE6QsAAXGI

— AlecBaldwin (@AlecBaldwln____) September 23, 2017

people making Curb Yout Enthusiasm jokes under that tweet can fuck right off

I have questions about why the gun was pointing where it was pointing

FYI the (predictable) question I had was answered here: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/prop-gun-using-blanks-still-052227936.html

also, what is wrong with the dickheads who are like "this is karma for making fun of Trump on SNL" - like WTF ?

I have questions about why the gun was pointing where it was pointing

I suppose it was a subjective "shot" where the actor is pointing at the camera... and all the people behind it.

xp Well we can start with the fact that these are trump fans on twitter, well I guess no need to explain further than that.

Man

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AFP otm

I'd guess yeah, feels like an unusual shot in the modern era

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Thinking about it, these subjective angles may well be in most movies with gun fights !

Oh sure, I was just rambling. I definitely associate them more with Noir and the 30s to 50s tho

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wtf!
how can a gun be a "prop" gun if it can kill someone?!

FYI the (predictable) question I had was answered here: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/prop-gun-using-blanks-still-052227936.html

― StanM, Friday, October 22, 2021 5:48 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

the only previous cases of firearms deaths on movie sets the bbc correspondent could come up with was Brandon Lee and some 1915 silent western. I would guess there are probably strict H+S protocols in place that are why this doesn't happen very often.

I just don't get it. If you're making a movie, with guns, with prop guns, with toy guns, whatever, there is literally no reason there should be live ammo anywhere near the set, let alone close to the blanks or pretend rounds. Maybe that's why this apparently has not happened much before?

read the yahoo article, it explains how blanks work

we may need to post that link a few more times

in fairness Stan (not blaming him just saying) didn't say what the predictable question was: it explains how prop guns are often real guns, what blanks are, and how this setup is still a hazard

oh it seems blanks are quite dangerously unpredictable at close range.

Yeah, I kind of knew how blanks work, but that mostly explains how someone can still be seriously injured by shooting blanks. Of the two examples given, one involved a guy literally sticking the gun *to his head* at point blank and fatally hurting himself. The other, Brandon Lee, involved a projectile (that is, bullet) that had been accidentally jammed in the barrel. But think of the literally millions and millions of blank rounds shot in action movies over the years. This almost never happens, because it really shouldn't happen. There should be no projectile in or near the gun, and if there is it should be caught well in advance and removed. And it of course usually is, because this really doesn't happen, relative to the number of guns in movies.

I'd do a bit on risk assessment here but fuck it

feel like josh knows something we don't