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Curtain-Razing Baldwin Blow Up (Poor Alec Just Drips Anger Everywhere He Goes)
The New York Post ^ | 04/26/06 | Michael Riedel

Posted on 04/26/2006 12:49:42 PM PDT by MikeA

AN ACCLAIMED New York theater actress has quit the Off-Broadway play "Entertaining Mr. Sloane," charging that the volatile behavior of the show's star - Alec Baldwin - has "created an unhealthy and oppressive situation" on stage and off.

Jan Maxwell, who won rave reviews for her performance in Joe Orton's black comedy, wrote in an e-mail to a friend that Baldwin's frequent temper tantrums - including putting his fist through a wall because the air conditioning wasn't high enough - also caused her to fear for her "physical safety, mental health and artistic integrity."

In an interview with The Post yesterday, Maxwell said "when something clicks in him, I don't want to be around."

Baldwin, responding to Maxwell's charges, said the actress "has been unhappy" in the play from the beginning for reasons that "only Jan's doctor knows."

He said she never bothered to learn her lines correctly, complained about her role and was "indifferent at best" to the needs of the rest of the cast. In the play, Baldwin and Maxwell played a brother and sister who each fall in love with a young man renting a room in their house.

"For her to pin all that on me is unfair," Baldwin said. "You'd think she was on the payroll of my ex-wife's divorce lawyer, pushing every button you could find," he added, referring to his ugly divorce from actress Kim Basinger.

Maxwell says she began to fear for her safety a few weeks ago.

In the e-mail to her friend - cable talk-show host Stephen Holt - she wrote that Baldwin was "throwing things around with all of us cowering. I locked my dressing room, not knowing why he was going crazy. The reason? The air conditioning wasn't high enough."

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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He must be pissed at the sorry state of his "career" which is so in the toilet he's forced to do off-Broadway plays. He's probably also pissed about no longer being able to afford airfare, or permanent relocation, to London.

I love all these revelations coming out about Hollywood libIDIOT "stars" this week. Now we have Charlie "The WTC Collapse was a Controlled Demolition" Sheen's ex revealing that he was into gay, underage porn and hookers, including one she suspects he had murdered. Too funny. This is the best and the brightest of the Hollywood left.

1 posted on 04/26/2006 12:49:47 PM PDT by MikeA
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To: MikeA

He had some promise as an actor a while ago (Red October, Glenngarry Glennross) now he's just an asshat.


2 posted on 04/26/2006 12:53:26 PM PDT by Semper Paratus
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To: MikeA

And not to mention being kicked out of the marriage bed by Kim Basinger.


3 posted on 04/26/2006 12:53:45 PM PDT by Waverunner
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To: MikeA

The old Fist Through the Wall routine, huh? What a class act Mr. Baldwin is.


4 posted on 04/26/2006 12:55:04 PM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: MikeA

At least Baldwin isn't a former construction worker hack - sarcasm.


5 posted on 04/26/2006 12:56:51 PM PDT by frogjerk (LIBERALISM: The perpetual insulting of common sense.)
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To: MikeA

I guess this means Hannity will be dragging that Baldwin tape back out.


6 posted on 04/26/2006 12:57:10 PM PDT by edpc
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To: MikeA

Forget the air conditioning, he was probably all hot and bothered that she didn't ask for his autograph.


7 posted on 04/26/2006 12:58:22 PM PDT by libs_kma (USA: The land of the Free....Because of the Brave!)
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Notice that Baldwin doesn't deny the actress's allegations (at least as his statements are reported here). Instead, he triest to change the subject, immediately going ad hominem by attacking her acting (or work ethic) and insinuating that she is having psychiatric problems.

Project much, Alec? France awaits you.

Nice oh-so-Politically-Correct play topic, too, I notice.


8 posted on 04/26/2006 12:58:22 PM PDT by pogo101
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To: Old Grumpy

Just another freaking spoiled brat.


9 posted on 04/26/2006 1:00:11 PM PDT by virginiaspook
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Baldwin, responding to Maxwell's charges, said the actress "has been unhappy" in the play from the beginning for reasons that "only Jan's doctor knows."

Another Big Lib demonstrates their compassion and understanding by using mental illness as a slander. What a maroon!

Baldwin admits he punched the wall because of the air conditioning, but says, "I had told people I wanted the temperature of the theater set to my comfort level, because I was sweating profusely onstage. I had asked them several times, but they didn't do it. Maybe I should not have gotten that angry, but all that I ask for is what I need to do my job. This is not about getting M&Ms in my dressing room."

Maybe it is the M&Ms that are the problem, Alex...

10 posted on 04/26/2006 1:00:24 PM PDT by bondjamesbond (RICE 2008)
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To: Semper Paratus

Now he's just and asshat? He's ALWAYS been and asshat..............and most likely always will be.......


11 posted on 04/26/2006 1:00:36 PM PDT by Red Badger (In warfare there are no constant conditions. --- The Art of War by SunTzu)
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"including putting his fist through a wall because the air conditioning wasn't high enough -"

Man can I relate to that, can't ever seem to get that AC set quite right and you oughta see the walls in my house


12 posted on 04/26/2006 1:01:34 PM PDT by bereanway
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Alec is trying to keep away from hitting 300 pounds.


13 posted on 04/26/2006 1:01:48 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: virginiaspook

I liked the one with him and Hannibal Lecter character and the bear -plane crashes in Alaska etc


14 posted on 04/26/2006 1:03:00 PM PDT by LYSandra
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I liked the one with him and Hannibal Lecter character and the bear -plane crashes in Alaska etc


15 posted on 04/26/2006 1:03:02 PM PDT by LYSandra
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"So, ah, Alex... Why is your wife so pissed off at you, anyway?" -- TGO, Mark Levin
16 posted on 04/26/2006 1:03:02 PM PDT by bondjamesbond (RICE 2008)
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Streisand, Baldwin, Asner.....that's why they're liberals. It eases their conscience and in their deluded mind makes up for them being complete A-holes in real life.


17 posted on 04/26/2006 1:03:51 PM PDT by traderrob6
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To: MikeA
Jan Maxwell

18 posted on 04/26/2006 1:05:05 PM PDT by wallcrawlr (http://www.bionicear.com/)
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To: bondjamesbond

loved that when Levin said that! Alec is a real nut job. He's going to end up in jail if he doesn't get on some drug to control his rage! I'd love it he is such a jerk! Am shocked he hasn't been pasted many times over by now!


19 posted on 04/26/2006 1:05:14 PM PDT by LYSandra
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(They think it) makes up for them being complete A-holes in real life...

You may be on to something there...

20 posted on 04/26/2006 1:06:01 PM PDT by bondjamesbond (RICE 2008)
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