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ALEC BALDWIN THREATENS TO QUIT SHOWBIZ
Breitbart ^ | 11/17/13 | L o'connor

Posted on 11/17/2013 5:59:27 AM PST by bestintxas

In a post under his blog byline at The Huffington Post, actor and MSNBC host Alec Baldwin suggests that he would quit show business for the sake of his family: "I am concerned for my family. In Bloomberg's New York, forty or fifty paparazzi are allowed to block streets, inconvenience homeowners, workers and shoppers, and make life miserable for my neighbors. Photographers have tripped and fallen on babies in strollers on my block. They have nearly struck my wife in the face with microphones. They provoke me, daily, by getting dangerously close to me with their cameras as weapons, hoping I will react. When I do, the weapon doubles as a device to record my reaction. And then, apparently, I lose every time. If quitting the television business, the movie business, the theatre, any component of entertainment, is necessary in order to bring safety and peace to my family, then that is an easy decision."

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To: bestintxas
I'd be satisfied if he just quit doing commercials.

The rest I can easily avoid.

21 posted on 11/17/2013 6:16:13 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: bestintxas
Alec, if you're looking for sympathy... just quit. Take your wife and go to Tierra del Fuego, or someplace else where no one will pay any attention to you.

Sooner or later, you'll come to miss the attention and will have another violent meltdown, but at least we won't have to hear about it.

And if we do hear about it... Alec... we will laugh at you.

22 posted on 11/17/2013 6:16:27 AM PST by Kenton
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To: bestintxas

I remember him threatening to leave the country at one time. How did that one turn out?


23 posted on 11/17/2013 6:16:31 AM PST by Old Yeller (Obama: A dark spot in this country's history.)
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To: bestintxas

It is interesting to watch the Left devour itself sometimes, and it’s hard to have a lot of sympathy for Baldwin. But, to be fair, I’d have the same attitude and opinion about the celebrity ‘press’ as he does. I guess it comes with the territory of making millions of dollars to be an entertainer and he’s brought the extra attention on himself by blowing up in the past. Still, any of us with wives and children would lash out at these idiots camping out in our front yards with cameras.


24 posted on 11/17/2013 6:16:37 AM PST by Cap74 (You can disagree with me. You can attack me. Do not lie to me.)
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To: bestintxas

The doors to your left Alec.


25 posted on 11/17/2013 6:17:49 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (On the evening of 10/16/13, the ailing republican party breathed its last breath.)
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To: bestintxas

Buh Bye


26 posted on 11/17/2013 6:18:26 AM PST by clamper1797 (Evil WILL flourish when good men WILL not act)
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To: bestintxas

“They have nearly struck my wife in the face with microphones.”

oh the humanity. His wife almost has been bumped by a microphone! Such tragic news.


27 posted on 11/17/2013 6:19:02 AM PST by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: bestintxas

This ain’t a very good Opus. At least Charlie Sheen’s was somewhat amusing.


28 posted on 11/17/2013 6:19:08 AM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (This is not just stupid, we're talking Democrat stupid here.)
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To: bestintxas

Group, I know Alec is a big loud mouth, but I’ve always thought he was a pretty decent actor. His problem, like most actors, is that he is not a happy person. Think about it, all actors need the sound of applause for their validation. It’s a vein and lonely existence and even a selfish one. Most actors never get past the ‘high school’ mentality and live through the eyes of the people watching them....which makes them both good actors and miserable people on the inside. I hope Alec gets help....


29 posted on 11/17/2013 6:20:13 AM PST by Mustangman (The GOP)
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To: bestintxas
... forty or fifty paparazzi are allowed to block streets, inconvenience homeowners, workers and shoppers, and make life miserable for my neighbors.

Hey Alec, didn't I read a few years back about how your "security" would block off intersections in your Long Island home town so that your "motorcade" could travel unimpeded?

30 posted on 11/17/2013 6:22:14 AM PST by JohnG45
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To: bestintxas

What a drama queen!


31 posted on 11/17/2013 6:23:13 AM PST by OrangeHoof (Howdy to all you government agents spying on me.)
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He has cultivated this lifestyle in order to enrich himself and now he’s getting buried in it. I don’t blame him for being pissed that he can’t walk to church, grab a danish or a pastrami sandwich at the corner deli or take his family out to to the park or walk to Schnitzers for a marble rye without twenty people jamming a camera in his face. But the fact still remains that he did this to himself and only he can fix it.

Just this past week I suggested to my wife that Alec should just leave the country for a few years. Maybe until this whole thing dies down.. maybe do a few indy movie roles for trade minimum wages. He has the money. If he doesn’t do something, he will hurt someone.


32 posted on 11/17/2013 6:23:14 AM PST by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: bestintxas

He should go get shock therapy or a lobotomy for the sake of his family.


33 posted on 11/17/2013 6:25:22 AM PST by jyro (French-like Democrats wave the white flag of surrender while we are winning)
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To: bestintxas

34 posted on 11/17/2013 6:26:08 AM PST by traderrob6
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To: bestintxas

Actions speak much louder than words, Alec.


35 posted on 11/17/2013 6:28:27 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Mustangman
Like so many other narcissistic overpaid mannequins from Hollywood they have a relentless urge to ***ATTRACT ATTENTION TO THEMSELVES!!!***. In show biz, even bad publicity is better than none at all. BTW, back in 2004 didn't he "promise" to leave the US if Bush43 got re-elected?
36 posted on 11/17/2013 6:29:37 AM PST by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: bestintxas

NOOOOOOOO! The Holidays are coming there must be Schweddy Balls in the stores.


37 posted on 11/17/2013 6:30:28 AM PST by DAC21
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To: bestintxas

Good. If I ever had to see another of those Viking commercials I would have run screaming toward Valhalla.


38 posted on 11/17/2013 6:33:51 AM PST by onedoug
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To: bestintxas

By all means, stay safe Alec.


39 posted on 11/17/2013 6:33:53 AM PST by John 3_19-21 (Don't like Gramnesty? Support Lee Bright www.brightforsenate.com/)
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To: bestintxas

Alec is such a tease! Quit show biz, Alec. Do it for the children.


40 posted on 11/17/2013 6:33:58 AM PST by Tallguy (between taglines...)
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