Why Alec Baldwin's all the rage

www.aggblog.com - 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. 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 Read full story at www.aggblog.com

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