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The New Yorker has a characteristically sprawling profile piece on Alec Baldwin in this week's issue, and the 30 Rock star is characteristically candid about life, his career, and his future. Or, as his brother William puts it, “There’s always something for him to fucking whine about.” Indeed, the profile, titled "Why Me?", is chock full of Baldwinning quotes.
On his failed marriage to Kim Basinger: "Think I’m walking stiffly?” Baldwin asks. “Yeah, there’s a hundred-and-twenty-pound actress on my back." Ha, ha. About 30 Rock: "If the show does succeed, it’ll be something of a fucking miracle, because NBC hasn’t done a fucking thing to help this show at all. This show is the red-headed stepchild in the lineup." On that nasty answering machine message to his daughter that surfaced last year: "I wanted to die, literally. I didn’t want to live anymore. Every night I’d say my prayers and I’d say, ‘Please don’t let me wake up in the morning. I don’t want to do this anymore.'" Yeah, acting's a tough racket. If only he could give himself a dose of Jack Donaghy-esque therapy:
Perhaps not so coincidentally, his memoir, A Promise to Ourselves (subtitle: " A Journey Through Fatherhood and Divorce"), comes out later this month.
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Alec Baldwin is to whining what Michael Phelps is to swimming.
Baldwin looks terrible for a man who's only 50. Looks closer to 60. He looks older than Jim Belushi, who's 54. Isn't 50 supposed to be the new 40? Not for him, I guess. At this rate, not only is was he over the hill early, he's heading fast for the bottom on the other side.
Amazing, #1. Amazing.
love this guy, from married to the mob to hunt for red october and now 30 Rock.
Sorry. Anything unpleasant about Alec Baldwin is negated by that clip.
Seriously, that's the best clip from 30 Rock.
Stop acting like a little bitch.
As if we were all innocent of whining ourselves? I think everyone I know is guilty of whining like that at once point or another, particularly during the hard times.
Anyway, he's not supposed to be a role model to us, he's supposed to be an actor. Since when do we have high expectations of actors? I thought the article was kind of amusing. And I find him highly amusing in his roles. I hope he does get a major role. I'm looking forward to it.
OMG that was actually funny, but wasn't this the same network that let Imus go...?
Mr. Del Signore, I usually enjoy your writing, but...
‘Please don’t let me wake up in the morning. I don’t want to do this anymore.'" Yeah, acting's a tough racket.
It's obvious he was referring to the whole drama surrounding his divorce and the media coverage of that phone message, not acting. Why belittle his profession? First of all, the remark was so out of place in the article. Second, have you ever tried acting? Unless you have and you think it's super easy, such a snarky comment colors your whole story and makes you seem more like a trashy columnist instead of a talented writer. Any other Gothamist writer, it wouldn't bother me -- I don't expect very much from them -- but from you? I'm disappointed.
What a Schmuck. . .
I have never seen 30 Rock before, but after watching that clip, I am now a fan.
Editrixie: Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but I thought 'it's a touch racket' was a sly reference to Baldwin's monologue in Glengarry Glen Ross. You know, "Yeah, I used to be a salesman. It's a tough racket."
#9 - You don't see a difference?
I love him I love him! Doesn't sound like whining to me. Sounds like telling it like it is.