Why Alec Baldwin's all the rage
New York Daily News - 17th Sep 2008
Alec Baldwin:
Alec Baldwin doesn't eviscerate ex-wife
Kim Basinger outright in his new book, "A Promise to Ourselves," but he sure does slice and dice lawyers and the media.
The "30 Rock" star makes the unkindest cuts to Harvey Levin, who posted on TMZ
Baldwin's now-infamous voice-mail rant to his daughter Ireland, whom
Basinger had taken 3,000 miles away when she left the actor and New York.
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Baldwin had been trying to reach his daughter, then 11, but "she was off for spring break with her mother and her phone was turned off for 10 consecutive days ... This had gone on for years now and ... when the beep came, I snapped. [Levin] seemed to be that breed of tabloid creature that realized an almost sexual level of pleasure from ruining other people's lives."
"He has created TMZ as the updated receptacle of ... trash,"
Baldwin writes. "He leads a cadre of self-satisfied twentysomethings who jump like rats from public relations sinking ship to sinking ship."
The release of the tape caused
Baldwin to become suicidal, as he and the agoraphobic actress had been fighting in court over their daughter for six years.
"Driving up the Taconic Parkway, heading to an inn in the Berkshire Mountains, I began to think about what little town I would repair to in order to commit suicide. What semi-remote Massachusetts state park could I hike deep into and overdose there? When I returned to New York, the thought of jumping out the window of my apartment was with me every night for weeks."
Thinking of Ireland, he resisted, thankfully. "I love my daughter with all my heart," he writes.
Baldwin said he wrote the book to expose a legal system in which "professionals who arrive on the scene often are there to prolong the bleeding, not to stop it." He thinks fathers especially get a bad shake in family court and adds, "I hope this benefits other men and women who love their children."
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The “30 Rock” star makes the unkindest cuts to Harvey Levin, who posted on TMZ Baldwin’s now-infamous voice-mail rant to his daughter Ireland, whom Basinger had taken 3,000 miles away when she left the actor and New York.
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