KIM & ALEC'S COLD WAR (Alec Baldwin Humiliated by Kim's Housekeeper)

National Enquirer ^ | June 17, 2002

[PJ-Comix]

Feuding stars ignore each other at daughter's school show

Divorced parents Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin went to their 6-year-old daughter Ireland's school music show on May 30 — and the ice between them was enough to sink the Titanic.

In their first public encounter since several blockbuster ENQUIRER exclusives revealed the nasty secret side of their relationship, the unfriendly pair sat 12 rows apart and gave each other the frosty cold shoulder.

"They never even looked at each other," said an eyewitness. "They came separately, they sat separately, and they left separately. They stood in the church lobby, they sat in the auditorium — but they never got within 50 feet of each other."

In our April 16 issue, The ENQUIRER reported that 48-year-old Kim was telling friends she had hired a bodyguard as protection against her ex-husband, who she said had beaten her during their seven-year marriage. The following week, Alec's brother Billy gave The ENQUIRER an exclusive interview in which he staunchly defended Alec. Billy said that Alec may be "volatile but he is not a wife-beater" and labeled Kim a "black widow spider" and "a nut case" who is "bipolar and has multiple personalities."

Little Ireland's music show was the couple's first public encounter in the wake of those shocking ENQUIRER articles.

"Their state of war was so apparent," the eyewitness said.

At one point Alec spotted his daughter in between numbers in the auditorium and rushed to see her.

"He bounced her on his knee for a few minutes and told her how good she was in the performance," the eyewitness said.

"But after just two minutes, Kim's housekeeper came up and took Ireland from Alec and he went back to his seat looking disappointed."

Said another witness: "You couldn't help but feel sorry for Alec, who was alone, awkward and conspicuous.

"But I guess the good news is the divorce must be improving — because this time Kim had no bodyguard!"

The couple's divorce became final in February, but the two are still working to reach a financial settlement.

[PJ-Comix]

Said another witness: "You couldn't help but feel sorry for Alec, who was alone, awkward and conspicuous.

Sorry. I just don't feel sorry for that wife-beating jerk.

[outpost44]

Just the kind of people I want political advise from...

[coloradan]

I wouldn't feel sorry for him even if he didn't beat his wife. He wants to criminalize me for owning certain types of guns or ammunition, and that does it right there.

[dighton]

I stand at the Vons checkout, see the tabloid covers, scratch my head, and mumble "Who the hell are these mutants?"

PS 2 PJ: James Jones 4U in #74.

[Bogey78O]

I blame Alec Baldwin for the failure of the Clerks TV series. Everything the man touches eventually fails. It's universally true. Name one thing he's done that has lasted.

[ODDITHER]

"black widow spider" and "a nut case" who is "bipolar and has multiple personalities.""

If Kim is that bad, how in the world has Alec allowed "Ireland" to continue living with her? You know as much as he likes to fight (being volitle and all), he would have dragged Kim into a child custody battle. But of course, I haven't seen Kim's name in print every other week for public displays of temper. Kim may have two personalites, but they aren't mean and meaner like Alec's are.

[NYCop]

as the blue seaters of Madison Sq. Garden put it... Beat your wife Bald-Win, beat your wife...

[fella]

I thought he was moving to tolerant France and wasn't comeing back until an other demoncrat dictator was in the White House.

[ReaganIsRight]

I'm still holding my breath waiting for him and BS and others to leave the country.

[FormerLib]

Kinda feel sorry for the kid, though.

[general_re]

"Introducing important people to each other is much more satisfying than introducing them to video artists. One approach is to do everything you can to make them attractive to each other and hope that you will receive a sort of social 'finder's fee' if they hit it off. They won't. The social habits of famous people are like the sexual practices of porcupines, which urinate on each other to soften the quills. A more interesting thing to do is to make sure the two important people loathe each other right from the start: 'Ana Plotless, this is Bret Leadpart. Bret thinks your novels are very good - of their kind...Bret, Ana has told me that she's heard you're very famous - in Japan.' This way you'll become the conduit for all sorts of wonderful maliciousness between those two august souls."

- P.J. O'Rourke

[Timesink]

I have no problem believing both of them are nuts.

[lizma]

Two selfish people beating up on their kid.

Her housekeeper picked up the kid??

Poor baby. Ouch and then some.

[Mike K]

I would have loved to hear that chant in person. Even Whaler fans didn't like Denis.

[FlyVet]

as the blue seaters of Madison Sq. Garden put it... Beat your wife Bald-Win, beat your wife...

LOL did they really? Man, them NY crowds are tough.

[DeltaZulu]

"The social habits of famous people are like the sexual practices of porcupines, which urinate on each other to soften the quills."

This quote is pure genius. I fell out of my chair when I read it. I nominate this as the quote of the month.

[timestax]

bttt

[ReaganIsRight]

Try Philly when their teams aren't doing well. They not only threw snowballs at Santa at Vet Stdm. but had a pretty good fight in the stands.

They shovel the snow out ever since. Thankfully, they're getting new stadiums, all those Vet era stadiums are being replaced. The Vet is a bad fishbowl.

[A CA Guy]

Doesn't Alec Baldwin post here:
http://boards.go.com/cgi/WLS/r equest.dll?LIST&room=wls-view-gc

[Imal]

"You couldn't help but feel sorry for Alec, who was alone, awkward and conspicuous.

That's because he's still in the United States. If he would have simply kept his promise to leave the U.S. if Bush became president, he could be contentedly mumbling disjointed Marxist quotes to himself in an anonymous Paris cafe right now.

Imal