I can't go on; I will go on: Baldwin promotes book (AP)
AP - Alec Baldwin, at a bookstore event he says he didn't want to attend, gave a fired up talk Tuesday night about a book he says he didn't want to write.

Economic Forecast: Mostly Cloudy, With a Chance of Alec Baldwin [Leaping Lizards]
For all its success on paper, Saturday Night Live is essentially making its pop-culture bones these days with an ex-cast member imitating a woman who might be completely irrelevant in six weeks. But some phenomena never expire, and when you combine the enduring miracle of Alec Baldwin with the current, overriding stench of economic recession, one SNL highlight alone stands out today for its chemistry and prescience: Reliable Investments, featuring Baldwin as a broker with all the answers for Ana Gasteyer. B

Alec Baldwin was “horrified” at himself when he heard his message to Ireland
A lot of people were pretty horrified at the things Alec Baldwin said to his daughter, Ireland, on the now infamous phone message, but no one more than Baldwin himself.  The recent Emmy winner said he’s apologized to Ireland and acknowledges his words were wrong, but maintains it never should have been heard around the world without his permission. At an appearance promoting his new book, A Promise to Ourselves: A Journey Through Fatherhood and Divorce, Baldwin directly addressed the issue and expr

Does Alec Baldwin Have His Own Sarah Palin Impression? You Betcha [Not Got To Allow That]
newVideoPlayer("/alechp_def.flv", 506, 423,""); Tina Fey had better watch her back — if she continues with her cutting Sarah Palin impressions on Saturday Night Live, she might find herself fired (or sniped from above thanks to a far-afield Alaskan helicopter). Fortunately, her 30 Rock costar Alec Baldwin will be available to step into the breach: he unveiled his own Sarah Palin impression on Friday's edition of Real Time with Bill Maher. While the vocal mimicry isn't quite up to par with Fey's (or B

Alec Baldwin Stops By Conan Just For Shits and Giggles [Pop-Ins]
newVideoPlayer("/kirstiepalin_def.flv", 506, 423,""); We were so wrapped up in all that Letterman/McCain business, we almost forgot about this nice little surprise from last night’s Conan. Fresh off his best actor Emmy win for 30 Rock, Alec Baldwin stopped by the Late Night set unannounced for a brief round of “In The Year 2000.” It seems like Alec’s been rocking those Buddy Holly glasses even more these days, which is always fun. Plus, he actually gets off a couple of decent jokes. Check in after

I can't go on; I will go on: Baldwin promotes book
Alec Baldwin, at a bookstore event he says he didn't want to attend, gave a fired up talk Tuesday night about a book he says he didn't want to write.

DVD Review: The Hunt for Red October (Blu-Ray)
The Hunt for Red October is hands-down the best film in the Jack Ryan series for a number of reasons, but first and foremost is the lack of a major villain. Instead the conflict is provided by the cryptic world of international politics and tense foreign relations that are all too real. Obviously there are villainous characters, but their roles are minor and are often interjected to give the plot a single push when needed. A young Alec Baldwin plays a Jack Ryan who believes in others more than he believes

…OF THE DAY
LAUGH MEDICINE: Some kind soul at SNL put up the precise vintage parody ad that our crumbling economy needed right now. It’s even got Alec Baldwin! (Videogum) HOT TUB: I don’t really know what this post or video is about, but the first 30 seconds of steak and eggs with William Shatner is undoubtedly worth the price of admission. (StreetCarnage) EDUTAINMENT: Yay, a new Drunk History - this time with William Henry Harrison! (Buzzfeed) NO JOKE: Just a good old fashioned radio interview with com

Alec Baldwin's "Secret" Appearance On Conan Last Night
Alec Baldwin made an unannounced visit to Conan last night to do a no-holds-barred edition of "In The Year 2000." He even got in a Bristol Palin joke. It's good to know that Alec will drop everything to be there for us in our time of national yuck: Carrot Top was also there! Alec was promoting the second season of 30 Rock on DVD, out October 7th, and now, apparently, so am I. Posted by Lindsay at 12:30 PM in Cameos, Late Night Tags: Alec Baldwin | Carrot Top | Conan O'Brien | The

FOX411: Alec Baldwin 'Alienated' From Daughter
How did Alec Baldwin find out his wife, Kim Basinger, was pregnant? According to this passage from his just-released book, "A Promise to Ourselves: A Journey Through Fatherhood and Divorce," it wasn’t in the usual way. "We were standing in her bathroom in her house in Los Angeles: Kim, myself and Kim’s then assistant. Kim said she had something to tell me. She seemed lost in thought, bordering on grim. Her assistant had a slightly woeful smile on her face. Kim said she was pregnant

Alec Baldwin On The View: Grape Juice Is For Closers
Introducing the Videogum Alec Baldwin Promise: like the Tracy Morgan Promise and the Louis C.K. Promise, we promise to bring you all the Alec Baldwin news that's fit to print, because we love him and he's a National Treasure. Just now, Mr. Baldwin was on The View, and dangit if he didn't kind of behave himself and stick to the important issue of parental alienation on which his new book is based. But a little bit of the crazy slipped out when Alec gave the ladies his example of what it's like to be a normal

Alec Baldwin whines at his own book-signing
---Quote--- **I can't go on; I will go on: Baldwin promotes book ** associated press Alec Baldwin, at a bookstore event he says he didn't want to attend, gave a fired up talk Tuesday night about a book he says he didn't want to write. A standing room only crowd of more than 100, plus about 20 protesters...

Finally: Beauty And The Beast: The Complete Series
On our first day of Videogum we put up the internet's best fan tribute montage to the ridiculously creepy 1987-1990 TV drama Beauty And The Beast. Today, Paramount released the complete series for the first time in a special-edition box set. Christmas is just around the corner! Posted at 4:15 PM in Fan Tribute Videos Tags: Beauty And The Beast « Previous Post: The Vintage Alec Baldwin SNL Commercial Parody We Need Right Now Next Post: Sometimes Bill Maher Stops Being The Worst For

Alec Baldwin book A Promise To Ourselves is a desperately sad memoir
"His book is a treatise on how the family law system in America is broken, and why it should be changed. It is a serious book, masquerading as a manifesto but eventually turning into a desperately sad memoir about the failure of Baldwin’s marriage and his estrangement from his only child.

NBC sitcom duo joke about Alec Baldwin's duking of 'Earl'
If there's anything to the Earl Hickey philosophy of karma, Alec Baldwin will be guesting on NBC's "My Name Is Earl" (returning Thursday night at 8 on...

Alec Baldwin, Amateur Legal Scholar
In this super exciting article published October 2nd in the Harvard Law Record (or at least the online version), Alec Baldwin makes the transition from the most likable but still somewhat douchey person on earth to his new profession, Amateur Legal Scholar. It's pretty long and potentially not as super exciting as I claimed in the first sentence, but here are the best parts, with an interruption from me, writing in italics: Alec Baldwin takes on family law Actor speaks about his own custody battles, advo

CAPTION THIS: Get Out Of My Hemingway
Alec Baldwin at a recent book signing, deciding whether or not to maul and eat a paparazzi who ventured too close to him. (via BuzzFoto)

Extra, Extra
Photograph by Herself_nyc on FlickrFrom the Gothamist Newsmap: a missing mother and child on153rd Street in Queens, a water condition at the UN and a pursuit on 5th Ave. and 3rd St. in Brooklyn.A new poll shows that New Yorkers are all for extending term limits--if we could just change the rule for just the mayor and not City Council.Real estate firm CEO arrested after being found with over a thousand Oxycontin and Xanax pills and cocaine.One day from her due date, pregnant woman was bored and decided to ta

Alec Baldwin Speaks Out on the View
A discussion of divorce and the new hot topic Parental Alienation

Oh Oui, There Will Be The French Word For Blood
It's funny, when I think about the Saw franchise I think about how it's the worst franchise, but I don't think about how it's the worst INTERNATIONALLY. The French poster for Saw V hit the internet today. It's basically a Saw poster but in French, which makes sense, and yet as unsurprising as that is, it still makes me laugh. "Bonjour, je m'appelle Jigsaw. Would vous like to play un game?" Ooooh, je suis so scared! How do you say LOL in French? L'OL, probably. Oh, there was a slight typo on the poster, t

In the Battle of the British Funnymen, Simon Pegg Calls Ricky Gervais a 'Fat Idiot' [Pick Your Side]
In the annals of celebrity feuds, we tend to prefer the light-hearted frivolity of a Seth Green/Shia LeBeouf dustup to the knock-down, "no one gets away unscathed" fights like Alec Baldwin on Greg Garcia. That's why we're so stymied by the latest and most unlikely entry in the feud genre: the war of words between Shaun of the Dead star Simon Pegg and Ricky Gervais, the Emmy-honored creator of Extras and The Office. So far, the battle (instigated by Pegg's mouthy appearance on a British radio show) is one-si

'SNL' Moves To Next Level With Gimp-Hindered Sister Act And A Donkey-Curious Mark Wahlberg [Say Hi To Your Mother For Me]
While much has been made of Tina Fey's return to SNL this season—starring as Sarah Palin in a series of pitch-perfect cold-opens that could well be the only things preventing a frayed America from tumbling off a flat Earth's edge—this week's episode also brought two other hilarious and viral-worthy sketches we thought we'd share. The first involves a Lawrence Welk Show-era sister act with a dark, attic-bound secret, played by Kristen Wiig. The second features Andy Samberg as Max Payne star Mark

DVD Review: Fey Shines on '30 Rock' Season 2
This year 30 Rock became the first comedy to win consecutive Emmys for Outstanding Comedy Series in 10 years. The second season, which also won Emmys for stars Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin, will be released on DVD tomorrow with all 15 episodes and plenty of bonus features to make the listed price of $37.99 more than fair. The two-disc set is full of plenty of audio commentaries, deleted scenes, and, perhaps best of all, a recording of 30 Rock Live, the staged reading of one of the episodes the cast perform

Why Tina Fey's Self-Deprecation Is Good For Women [Lemony Goodness]
Fellow Tina Fey-natic blogger Kate Harding has a quibble with the Emmy-winning 30 Rock star. It bugs her that Tina Fey makes fun of her own looks in her comedy. "Even if she thinks of herself as a geeky underdog," Harding writes, "these days, the woman is fucking conventionally gorgeous. Whenever there’s a crack about her looks on 30 Rock, I’m torn between being sad that she apparently doesn’t see that in herself and being pissed off that she’s reinforcing the idea that having brown hair, glasses, a

Friday's Early Buzz: Clay Aiken, Alec Baldwin, Thandi Newton and more
The mother of Clay Aiken's baby praises the singer's parenting skills in the new issue of People.