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NEW YORK In an interview for tomorrow's New York Times Magazine, actor Alec Baldwin reveals that if he decides to run for office "the thing I would like to be is governor New York." He claims he would "love" to spend time in Albany and other upstate cites, at least partly because his mother now lives in Syracuse. Is he qualified? The liberal activist says the thing he "hates" about Arnold Schwarzenegger is his "only credentials are that he ran a fitness program under some bygone president....I'm Tocqueville compared to Arnold Schwarzenegger. " Why not run for governor of California?...

Actor and liberal activist Alec Baldwin has an idea that's either gonna guarantee him that New York House or Senate seat he covets or make him a permanent fill-in on Hollywood Squares: Put the new Yankee stadium on ground zero as a memorial to 9/11 victims. "It's the most interesting thing I have heard," he says. Baldwin and New York PR man Phil Nourie hatched the idea. Baldwin calls it "a mix of the commemorative and the practical." He says every game could begin with a moment of silence and that survivors and members of the NYPD and the FDNY...

Alec "The Bloviator" Baldwin is pitching a bizarre plan for Ground Zero: Build a new Yankee Stadium there. The underemployed actor even tried to corner Mayor Bloomberg at the U.S. Open to tell him about his plan, writes Philip Van Munching in the new issue of Brandweek magazine. "Baldwin's plan, plain and simple, is to give George Steinbrenner the one thing Rudy Guiliani couldn't : a Manhattan address for the New York Yankees. A baseball staduim built on the 16 acres that once held the World Trade Center. A Memorial Staduim, if you will, which would house an actual memorial...