Posted on 04/24/2007 9:57:10 PM PDT by CAWats
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Alec Baldwin has parted ways with his agents at a major Hollywood talent agency, his spokesman said Monday.
Baldwin left Creative Artists Agency for personal reasons, said spokesman Matthew Hiltzik. He did not elaborate.
The actor has made headlines in recent days after an angry voicemail to his daughter was obtained by the celebrity Web site TMZ.com and broadcast around the world.
Baldwin and actress Kim Basinger have been locked in a custody dispute over their 11-year-old daughter, Ireland, since their 2002 divorce.
In it, Baldwin yelled at his daughter for failing to answer the telephone for a prearranged call and called her a "rude, thoughtless little pig."
Baldwin has since apologized.
>> “rude, thoughtless little pig.”
Wouldn’t that make her the child of a rude thoughtless big pig?
OH BOY TOO FUNNY
Baldwin is neither creative nor an artist, so what was he doing there in the first place?
Why would a talent agency want to do anything with Alec Baldwin?
I love the taste of schadenfreude in the morning.
Arec Barwin is f*#$%ing finished.
On my list of things I couldn’t give two craps about...
Wasn’t he a physically abusive husband?
This abusive rant combined with his death threat against Henry Hyde, and his past pattern of assault should make good grounds for a restraining order.
I hope.
Didn’t he just win an entertainment award?
"Personal reasons" such as CAA telling him "We do NOT represent you anymore!"
And the answer is YES!!!!!!!
In Hollywood, this is pretty serious.
Please, someone post a thread where the caption is “Alec Baldwin Leaves the U.S.A. Forever” That would be worth the price of admission.
You know, if Alec Baldwin would have moved to France like he promised to, he wouldn’t have had to make such a long-distance phone call.
Just saying...
He told them they were rude, thoughtless little pigs.
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Not to play Devil’s Advocate, but okay. If the Mom, Kim was really concerned about her child, wouldn’t that concern extend to the earning capacity of her child’s father? After all his earning capacity translates into more financial security for the child, no? Perhaps the same rules do not apply as both mother and father seem to have equal earning capacity, but still, a typical mother will still think about the ramifications for the child. IMHO, this consideration for the child is somehow missing on both their parts.
>> with his death threat against Henry Hyde
and Hyde’s family. I’ll never forget it along with the pass he got from the media. The guy can use some humility and self control.
Well...it’s not JUST about the “earning” capacity. Women who marry and make babies with the man, then try to deny the child to know the father, make me ill.....NOT that I’m defending Alec Baldwin...no way, however, Kim has 10 counts of obstruction or something for not letting him see his daughter. There’s 2 sides to every divorce.....
Exactly. Finally.
I bet Creative Artists had something to say about that.
Yeah. It’s real “devious” not to want to speak to someone who ridiculed you on national tv the night before.
The don't. Looks like CA fired him.
Yep, CA fired him.
FMCDH(BITS)
I’ll bet old Alex has thrown a fit or two at CAA. Now they see an opening to dump his foul mouthed A@@.
Negative!
The guy needs his ass beat severely, and his entire carcass kicked around in the street long enough that his brain housing group get reset to his new default position of "STFU"...
Semper Fi
I only bring this up because I understand Baldwin’s seemingly unhinged, over-reactive behavior. Understanding doesn’t imply approval, either, but when the human beings you love most in the world are suddenly—and unfairly—taken from you, it tends to make even the most stable sort a little bonkers. Me? I got a lot bonkers. And so, evidently, has Baldwin.
I’ll slam the guy all day on his moonbat politics, but think I’ll give Baldwin a pass on this one.
“I only bring this up because I understand Baldwin’s seemingly unhinged, over-reactive behavior.”
but this tirade was directed to his 12 year old daughter, not an estranged ex-wife. Can you think of a reason that you would leave a voicemail to your 12 year old daughter a “pig”? and you STILL give him a pass? Hmmm........
the last time I remember him doing something was “The Aviator” as Raoul of Pan America.
And there was cameo in Team America....wait....that was a puppet.
Then there was.....no....that was the other fat Baldwin.
You know....I bet CAA got tired of him hanging around in the lobby scrounging for jobs and eating all the breath mints. Of course, he could always do a remake on the death of Belushi.
What I’d like to know is how the daughter’s personal voice mail got “leaked” to the media without the mother’s active participation.
As I said, I understand Baldwin’s whacked-out behavior; I don’t condone it. And no, I don’t call my children names. I only do name-calling to adults, to their face, up close and personal. I think it’s cowardly to make personal remarks or insinuations about someone while hiding behind a pseudonym. Very cowardly. Yellow, even.
Mmmmmm....
Thanks for the technical explanation. I think in my day we called it an attitude adjustment.
As Struther Martin once said to Paul Newman, “Luke, you gotta get your mind right.”
Either that or check-out.
Dude! that was funny. SOS (Snot On Screen!)
To hell with “attitudes” and getting their “mind right” or even the leftist’s favorite “winning hearts and minds”...
Kick anybody’s ass hard enough in ANY direction, and their damned hearts and minds will follow..
Semper Fi
“Very cowardly. Yellow, even.”
As I am Asian, I take that ‘Yellow’ comment as a racist remark and shall be reported.
As far as your disturbing insinuation, assumption, and keyboard drama, this akins to a telltale display of deep seated anxieties that have not yet been resolved. I wish you well. Oh, and I’m not really into ‘Sports’.
Like you I don’t like much about Alex, BUT! if my kids were separated from me I have a bit of a bad temper that involves my mouth and inanimate objects. I’d hate to have that tape played on the evening news.
> Baldwin is neither creative nor an artist, so what was he doing there in the first place?
I enjoyed Alec Baldwin and Kim Bassinger in “The Getaway” (1994). I guess that was a very long time ago, when the two had “chemistry”, but it was a tidy piece of acting and a fairly good movie, ay.
Been a long time since, tho’ — no mistake.
Sounds like he’s a swell father and a wonderful ex. Not Funny! Not even a Little Bit Funny. He should be innoculated for rabies maybe, ay. Foaming at the mouth and fulminating at his little girl over the phone like that. She must be *really* impressed with her Dad.
Hopefully she went out and bought a Taser, just in case Alec dropped by to “straighten her out” as he’d promised. ZZZZAP! Straighten him out, horizontal on the floor, swearing and twitching and wondering why he had been such an idiot...
ZZZZAP! One more time, to make sure the lesson sunk in. And ZZZZAP again, just for fun.
How does any Hollywood kid manage to grow up without becoming non-dysfunctional? Who knows... Poor kid.
"Pig! You've insulted me for the last time!...Is this thing on?"
> “Pig! You’ve insulted me for the last time!...Is this thing on?”
ROTFLMAOASMGIPOMM!!!
Crikey that is HELL FUNNY, and no mistake! You owe me a new keyboard...
Despite his faults Baldwin continues to entertain, though not in the ways he imagined.
> Despite his faults Baldwin continues to entertain, though not in the ways he imagined.
HAWHAWHAWHAWHAW! Whoooo, Crikey! Badda-boom! Well done! That’s HELL FUNNY!
(Big grin!)
Thanx for that!
*DieHard*
IMO he was outstanding in "Hunt For Red October".
WHile neither are saints I’m siding with Kim. Sorry about your kids.
A small chronicle:
Some of the stuff from “the net”...
Baldwin was ordered to pay $4,500 to a celebrity photographer after he allegedly punched the man in eye for stalking the couple after Ireland was born and left the hospital.
From 2005...
In a statement released late yesterday, Basinger storms, “Everyone knows about Alec Baldwin’s behavioral problems - his anger, his rages - they are, unfortunately, legendary. If his relationship with his daughter is fractured, there is only one person to blame and it is himself.” The warring ex-couple are due back in court in Los Angeles next month to fight the custody battle
He tells The New York Post, “It’s like being diagnosed with cancer. Something I realize I have to live with. But I’m keeping things in perspective. Not letting it consume me and eat me up with anger as it used to. I stopped that when one late night I was on the street so unhappy and filled with rage that, in a fit, I smashed my phone against a lamppost. A black lady walking by said to me, Alec Baldwin,’ you got to get hold of yourself.’ So I have.”
From2004...
Hollywood beauty Kim Basinger yearned to kill ex-husband Alec Baldwin during their vicious custody battle for daughter Ireland. The 50-year-old actress confesses she found it “nearly impossible” to forgive Baldwin and fantasized about his death during their violent battle for the eight-year- old when she was branded a “black widow spider” and “nutcase” for accusing the Beetlejuice star of drunken wife battery.
From2003...
Basinger claims her husband was “emotionally and physically abusive”. But after supermarket tabloid National Enquirer ran a story claiming Baldwin beat his wife in April 2002, the actor’s brother Billy Baldwin spoke out, branding Kim a “nutcase”. He told the Enquirer, “Is my brother a saint? No. Is he volatile? Yes. But he is not a wife-beater. I think what may have happened is that Kim may have taken a run at Alec during a fight, and he may have put his arm up to protect himself or push her off. But that’s not beating your wife.” In a statement to Page Six, Basinger’s publicist says, “An independent evaluator in the child custody case of Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin’s daughter, Ireland, has recommended primary physical custody to Ms. Basinger and visitation rights to Mr. Baldwin. The report exonerates Ms. Basinger of all false allegations made by Mr. Baldwin and acknowledges that Ms. Basinger lived in an emotionally and physically abusive marriage for 10 years. Ms. Basinger has accepted this report.
From2002...
Pals of Kim Basinger are blaming the actress’s chronic back problems on her ex-husband Alec Baldwin’s alleged violence. The L.A. Confidential star, who was married to Baldwin for nine years, underwent surgery in August to remove slipped discs and fuse together damaged vertebrae in her lower back. And according to American tabloid the Star, friends of the 48-year-old beauty claim Baldwin was shockingly violent to her during their union, leading to the injuries. Baldwin has always denied he was ever violent towards Basinger. A source says, “She claims he hit her more than once. And there were many instances when Alec was verbally abusive to her, even in public. She has extremely harsh feelings toward Alec. All the stress of being with him aggravated her back problems and led to the operation. The battles were no secret. Look how often Alec was caught on camera fighting with his wife in public.
It’s my opinion that Baldwin was a wife beater...None of the women since his divorce find him “as something they want to keep”
Since his break up with Basinger, he has dated Kristin Davis, Ally Sheedy, and attorney Nicole Seidel.
Can’t deal with real men either...
From Wiki...
He was criticized by Jack Valenti, Rush Limbaugh, and Brit Hume for his appearance on Late Night with Conan O’Brien on December 11, 1998, eight days before President Bill Clinton was to be impeached. In an outburst that Baldwin later referred to as a “parody,” a claim supported by the supplemental oxygen prop that Conan administers at the end of the clip, Baldwin said that “if we were in another country... we would stone Henry Hyde to death and we would go to their homes and kill their wives and their children. We would kill their families”.[2] Baldwin later apologized to Hyde for his remarks and NBC has promised never to re-air the show.[3] (A video of the outburst can be seen here [1])
On March 26, 2006, Baldwin guest-hosted Brian Whitman’s talk show on WABC radio in New York. During the show, conservative talk show hosts Sean Hannity and Mark Levin called the show and were heard on air. Both Hannity and Levin confronted Baldwin about his previous comments about Vice-President Cheney and Rep. Hyde. During the conversation, Hannity accused Baldwin of not appearing on his show as agreed, and Baldwin replied that he would never do Hannity’s show. After Hannity accused him of attacking the president in a time of war, Baldwin attempted to move on to the next caller. Hannity interrupted, saying “you don’t tell the truth.” Baldwin responded by calling Hannity “a no-talent whore.” The conversation turned into a series of verbal taunts among Hannity, Levin and Baldwin. According to the actor, Whitman made no attempt to assist Baldwin or curtail the call, so Baldwin walked out of the studio. On March 28, according to Baldwin, WABC President and General Manager Tim McCarthy telephoned him to “apologize for Sean’s attacks.”[9] [10]
His ship is sinking, blow taps.
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