Alec Baldwin
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Posted on 03/08/2002 10:10:26 AM PST by Teacup
Alec Baldwin
-Photo by: AP
ALEC "Bloviator" Baldwin was in Tallahassee on Wednesday - much to the surprise of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. "He had promised he would leave the country if my brother got elected," Bush said. "Well he's back, I guess."
Baldwin - with People for the American Way to criticize Florida officials for not doing more to reform elections - testily replied: "You can tell Gov. Bush to rest assured that I'm not going to leave the country because we have to get him out of office and we have to get his brother out of office in 2004." And Baldwin came up with a loophole. "Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines."
"Oh Alec...how could you utter such offensive words...
Alec: "Dash-Hole told me to."
Gee, did Alec think of that all by himself, or did he hire a screenwriter?
WHEN producer Art Linson cast Alec "Bloviator" Baldwin for his 1997 movie, "The Edge," he was warned the actor was too "difficult" and not a "big star." But Linson hired Baldwin anyway and learned to regret it. 20th Century Fox exec Bill Mechanic ...presciently insisted Baldwin was "expensive," his success was "spotty," he was "trouble," and couldn't "carry a movie."
The seemingly agreeable Baldwin, who was hired to portray the film's buff stud, showed up on the Canadian set, "20 pounds" overweight, bloated and with a flowing beard. "It was as if he had entered a Grizzly Adams lookalike contest," Linson recalls in VF.
At first, Linson and director Lee Tamahori assumed Baldwin - who "looked older than [Anthony Hopkins]" with the beard and weight - was simply "getting into character." They were wrong. "If Mechanic thought Alec was going to enter this fight overweight, bearded and old, his [salary] would have been two free dinners at Spago and 10 percent of the net" instead of $5 million, Linson fumed.
But when Linson and Tamahori asked Baldwin to shave, he went ballistic. "I knew this was coming, the bullbleep Hollywood mentality . . . Motherbleeper! No talent motherbleeping! Producer my a-," Baldwin shrieked before kicking the wall of his trailer and pounding his fist on a coffee table.
Eventually, Baldwin's longtime agent, John Burnham, had to tell him to shave. Although he got rid of his whiskers, throughout filming he refused to look at either Tamahori or Linson.
At the end of the beard brouhaha, Baldwin fired Burnham, the man who had put his name on the map - a clear mistake on Baldwin's part. After the two parted ways in 1997, Baldwin's career stalled. In the past five years, he has appeared in such forgettable movies as "Thomas and the Magic Railroad," and such unreleasable films as "The Devil and Daniel Webster," which he also directed. Baldwin has fallen back on voice-over jobs in "The Royal Tenenbaums" and "Cats & Dogs."
LOSER! LOSER! LOSER! LOSER! LOSER!
Is he still working? LOL, I wonder how many movies he's made lately?
What a heavy weight they must carry and with no end in sight.
Wait!!
Is that Herr Baldwin I see?
What a fine young man!
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