Thanks to the tape of him wailing "You're a rude, thoughtless little pig" at his daughter, Alec Baldwin is facing the toughest test of his personal life – so now wouldn't be the best time for Alec Baldwin to mess about with his professional career as well.
But Alec Baldwin doesn't care what you think. Tell Alec Baldwin what you think and he'll get on a plane and come to see you for a day and he's gonna straighten your ass out when he sees you, do you understand him? He's gonna really make sure you get it. Then he's gonna get on a plane, turn around and he's gonna go home, you rude thoughtless little pig.
Anyway, Alec Baldwin has just left his agents. We should have probably just said that in the first place.
It's terrible to admit, but when we first heard Alec Baldwin's odd daughter-threatening voicemail, we didn't really mind that we were basically listening to a grown man scream violent threats at an 11-year-old girl, for the reason that he's been in some quite good films lately.
Recently Alec Baldwin has shown that he can excel at both drama – he shone in both of Martin Scorsese's last two films; and comedy, as his leading role in unusually funny US sitcom 30 Rock has shown. Alec Baldwin was in The Good Shepherd. Alec Baldwin was in The Cooler. Alec Baldwin was in The Spongebob SquarePants Movie. Basically, right now Alec Baldwin is in the form of his life – and no amount of reputation-destroying chocolate bar wrappers can hurt that.
But then maybe that form has something to do with Creative Artists Agency, the firm of agents that Alec Baldwin has been signed to since 2002. Pre-CAA Alec Baldwin was in Thomas And The Magic Railroad, Cats & Dogs and Pearl Harbour – after signing with the firm he was nominated for an Oscar, won Golden Globes and SAG awards and starred in films that won Best Picture Academy awards. That might just be a coincidence, but Alec Baldwin has left CAA anyway, as E! Online reports:
The Golden Globe winner parted ways with Creative Artists Agency and longtime agents Matt DelPiano and Michael Rosenfeld on Monday, according to a CAA spokesman. While no official reason for the split was given, Baldwin's publicist, Matthew Hiltzik, told E! Online that the actor made the move "strictly for personal reasons. It has absolutely nothing to do with his extremely talented agents who've done great work with Alec."
'Personal reasons' could mean anything at all, of course, but one widely-believed rumour is that Alec Baldwin left CAA because his ex-wife Kim Basinger is also a CAA client. That'd be the same Kim Basinger who is strenuously denying that she leaked the ranty voicemail and who faces jail over custody contempt in the next few months.
There's a chance that Alec Baldwin couldn't stand being a client at the agency which also represents the woman that he believes has got him banned from contacting his daughter until next month even though he's publicly apologised for leaving the message. But that's all hearsay, so we contacted Alec Baldwin ourselves, and this is what he said:
"I want you to know something, OK? I'm tired of playing this game with you. You have insulted me for the last time. You have insulted me. You don't even have the brains or the decency as a human being. I don't give a damn that you're 12 years old, or 11 years or that you're a child, or that your mother is a thoughtless pain in the ass who doesn't care about what you do as far as I'm concerned. You have humiliated me for the last time."
Ah, no, wait – we didn't actually contact Alec Baldwin per se. What we actually did was ask a question into thin air and then pressed play on Alec Baldwin's ranty voicemail message and transcribed what it said. But, you know, close enough.
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Lyndi says
I don’t know a parent that hasn’t been exasperated beyond appropriate words from time to time – where they have regreted what they said. But anyone having gone through a bad divorce can come up with all kinds of examples of how the kids are used as weapons causing disruption to life and liberty in general. Not to defend what Balwin said, but think about it…. he said what he had to say, good or bad, up front and out in the open to his daughter. No games. The subtle manipulation and emotional abuse being perpetrated by the mother using this little girl as a tool is ten-times worse! Baldwin needs anger management help. Bassinger needs major psychiatric help and a long stint with parenting classes.