Alec Baldwin didn’t attempt suicide yesterday, just as he hadn’t attempted suicide for 18,941 consecutive days prior to that.
But, for a while, it looked like he had. According to breathless news reports yesterday, Alec Baldwin was rushed to hospital after his daughter found him unresponsive following a fight where he threatened to take pills. However, Alec Baldwin says that isn’t the case, and he’s blamed the overblown media reaction on his ex-wife Kim Basinger.
For those keeping score, that means that the list of things that Alec Baldwin blames Kim Basinger for now includes the media reaction to a phony suicide attempt, the leaking of a furious email, the way that hotel air conditioners are sometimes hard to use, the assassination of John F Kennedy, male pattern baldness and the functional extinction of the Baiji river dolphin.
It’s difficult to know where to stand with Alec Baldwin, isn’t it? Take him on face value – big in the 1980s, anger problems, a bitter divorce, a mistaken belief that he was born to change the world for the better, a CV that includes some mind-blowingly awful films, links to weird and ultimately false suicide bids – and you’ve basically got David Hasselhoff. But Alec Baldwin is different to David Hasselhoff, in that he occasionally makes things that are of some worth. It’s a muddle, isn’t it?
For instance, if David Hasselhoff had been rushed to hospital yesterday after reportedly being found unresponsive by one of his own children, we’d all know how to react. There’d be concern, obviously, but that’d be tempered with a barely restrained glee because we got to show the drunken hamburger video again. But when Alec Baldwin was rumoured to have been found in the same situation yesterday? Difficult. We’ll just the Boston Herald explain what happened:
Baldwin, who is ?completely fine?, was taken to hospital after his daughter called 911 early yesterday claiming the star was ?unresponsive? in their West Side apartment. An official said Baldwin and his daughter had argued and she told 911 that he had threatened to take pills. A source close to the actor said: ?There were no drugs. There was no alcohol. And there were no pills or threat of pills.?
It’s probably worth noting that other sources have claimed that Alec Baldwin was unresponsive because he had ‘a bad reaction’ after taking an Ambien, which technically is a pill so there
But whatever the reason, Alec Baldwin was quickly released from hospital and went home to discover cameras swarming everywhere. How did they find out about the hospital visit so quickly? Back to the Boston Herald:
?Gee, I wonder how they found out?? the source said. ?This is another example of Kim?s sickness.?
Ah, good old Kim Basinger – if she really is responsible for telling the media that Alec Baldwin had tried to kill himself, it’d be up there with her other alleged shenanigans, like the time she reportedly leaked Alec Baldwin’s “rude little pig” voicemail to the press, or the time it’s claimed that she went out of her way to manufacture a selection of chocolate bar wrappers for her daughter that disparaged Alec Baldwin’s reputation as a father. Honestly, their divorce is the gift that keeps on giving.
But we’re sure that Alec Baldwin will have the last laugh in all of this – he’s hosting the Oscars next month, after all. Just try not to act too surprised when the big opening number turns out to be a version of Almost There from The Princess And The Frog that’s been rewritten to explain what a horrible bitch Kim Basinger is in uncomfortable detail. It’s almost definitely going to happen.
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Emlyn Addison says
Boy, you make him sound like a combination of crazy Gary Busey, ex-has-been Mickey Rourke, social outcast Nick Nolte, and whacko Mel Gibson.
Hardly.
You gloss over his CV: Let’s not forget Glengarry Glen Ross, The Departed, and 30 Rock, just to name three off the top of my head. And that he is a frequent SNL host must speak to his character, right? Right? (Think Lorne Michaels would invite him back if he was the paranoid asshole you’ve branded him? Hmm!)
Having witnessed my brother’s divorce up close and personal, I see Alec Baldwin as a regular guy who married, then divorced an incompatible personality type (have you ever actually observed Kim Basinger in social situations?), who has a difficult daughter with whom he has evidently been trying to form a better relationship, and who too often becomes a victim of his own anger and frustration (which is hardly surprising, given the aforementioned points).
Show me a regular guy wouldn’t feel just a little bit angry.
Yeah sure, you have a blog to write so you play the angle you play, but put yourself in his shoes for 10 seconds. The divorce courts favor women in this country, not men. Cut the guy some slack.
wademac says
Oh so now it’s not only Kim Bassinger, but his daughter is also to blame? the dudes a nutcase, just look at some of his statements….still trying to find where he lived out of the country during the Bush years….
picklepants says
The whole Basinger/Baldwin marriage is best described as this:
Captain Kirk goes back in time and marries Lisa Simpson.
Lonna says
Alec Baldwin is blaming Kim Basinger for his bad behavior? NO!! Only for the 3,000th time. It’s wonderful how his abusive personality is never a result of…his abusive personality. It’s always someone else’s fault, usually Kim Basinger’s. She’s his all time favorite scapegoat. In my mind, the fact that she ever looked twice at that man is the real fault I see in her.