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Alec Baldwin considers entire film career a 'complete failure'
Telegraph ^ | 30 Nov 2009

Posted on 11/30/2009 6:52:24 PM PST by george76

Alec Baldwin, the US actor, has said he has lost interest in acting and considers his film career a failure.

"I consider my entire movie career a complete failure," he told the magazine. "The goal of moviemaking is to star in a film where your performance drives the film, and the film is either a soaring critical or commercial success, and I never had that."

Baldwin has expressed interest in politics in the past but did not say in the interview what he intended to do if he quit acting.

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1 posted on 11/30/2009 6:52:25 PM PST by george76
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I’d like to go one step farther and declare Alec a failure.


2 posted on 11/30/2009 6:53:35 PM PST by machogirl (First they came for my tagline.)
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He’s great as an actor - it’s just his politics that stink...


3 posted on 11/30/2009 6:53:40 PM PST by GOPJ (Anthropogenic global warming-the most costly and widespread scientific FRAUD in history-James Lewis)
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To: george76

Except for Glengarry Glen Ross he is right


4 posted on 11/30/2009 6:53:44 PM PST by Shellybenoit
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To: george76

He was good in “Hunt for Red October”, back before he decided his personal opinion was worth more than his ability to parrot someone else’s words.


5 posted on 11/30/2009 6:54:06 PM PST by MortMan (Stubbing one's toes is a valid (if painful) way of locating furniture in the dark.)
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To: george76

Alec Balwin, while a complete liberal ass, is actually a damn good actor. Whether it’s drama or comedy, he can do it all.


6 posted on 11/30/2009 6:54:52 PM PST by oldvike
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To: george76

Maybe he needs to try Climate Science.


7 posted on 11/30/2009 6:54:56 PM PST by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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Hey Alec...Hunt for Red October was great. If you'd kept your big mouth shut and made more movies like that, you'd be one of my favorites.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

8 posted on 11/30/2009 6:55:51 PM PST by wku man (Who says conservatives don't rock? Go to www.myspace.com/rockfromtheright)
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To: george76

He was great in “Team America: World Police”!

hehe.


9 posted on 11/30/2009 6:56:11 PM PST by dynachrome (Barack Hussein Obama yunikku khinaaziir!)
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To: george76

This is about the 10th time I’ve read that he may have ‘political ASSpirations.’

Lord, help us!

He is a fine actor, and no one makes me laugh harder than this jerk. But, really. Isn’t America paying a high enough ransom already with Al Franken? *SHIVER*


10 posted on 11/30/2009 6:57:38 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin ( "When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both." - James Davidson)
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He was pretty good in that one movie...

That one with the submarine.

11 posted on 11/30/2009 6:57:48 PM PST by The KG9 Kid
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His 10 minute monologue in Glengarry Glen Ross has been the lone light in my dislike for him..and HUnt for Red October. If he wasn’t a liberal loon, he couldve easily displaced Harrison Ford in the Ryan series.


13 posted on 11/30/2009 6:58:33 PM PST by max americana (i)
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To: machogirl

LOL... he’s done pretty well (financially) for a failure. I’d say he’s more like a disappointment at this point. He still has time to redeem himself. He’s from a good family.
(We went to school together on Long Island)

Perhaps he can pull off doing a “Beck” and turn his life around for the positive.


14 posted on 11/30/2009 6:58:44 PM PST by nagdt ("speak the truth but leave immediately afterward")
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To: george76

Hey, now! The guy’s a left-wing weenie, but he’s a good actor.


15 posted on 11/30/2009 6:58:52 PM PST by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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Baldwin has expressed interest in politics in the past but did not say in the interview what he intended to do if he quit acting.
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Well, he started his political career when he publicly wished that Henry Hyde and his entire family would be killed for standing up to the crime and sleaze of Clinton, and the subsequent impeachment. Fits right in with the rising disregard for AMERICAN human life that is growing in the radical left. Remember this whole scenario ????


16 posted on 11/30/2009 6:59:24 PM PST by EagleUSA (W)
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I, for once, disagree with Alec. He’s a moronic twit personally, but I really enjoy his movies.

Beetlejuice was an absolute commercial success and is now considered a classic. How is that a failure?


17 posted on 11/30/2009 6:59:31 PM PST by autumnraine (You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out!)
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I'll agree, though I can still watch him in "The Hunt for Red October" any time.

Granted, I keep wondering how Harrison Ford would've played each scene, but I like that film. Probably the best book to film adaption I've seen (from a book that I've actually read).

(The Shawshank Redemption is #1 for novella to film, but that's a topic for a different thread.)

18 posted on 11/30/2009 7:00:28 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (Obi-Wan Palin: Strike her down and she shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.)
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To: RichInOC

He was great in The Shadow.


19 posted on 11/30/2009 7:00:55 PM PST by FreeManWhoCan ("By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.")
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