Alec Baldwin, the "Actor"
I guess it started the presidential elections last year. Well known to almost all Americans is that Mr. Baldwin has a loose temper, no control and rolls around the deck of public life, shooting off his personal opinions, gunning down (philosophically) anyone that gets in the way.
As an actor, he is superb. He has performed on stage and off, in a wide panoply of venues and done so well, it is hard to criticize and critique him negatively, for most of his career, except lately, in the last five to ten years, when loosing his cool, leaking personal aspects of his political views an love life into the arena of every day life, seems, well, beyond his control.
His divorce from a knock out beautiful actress was covered scantily in the press with her remarks in one trade press mentioning that she had enough of his " violent temper." Everything I've read since then seemed to validate that. His publicized blow up with his own daughter broadcast a vindictive tirade aimed at a teenage daughter that would wither most childrens' self esteem. No word on her progress since then.
And now, a kerfuffle by a left wing cable TV news station over a defeated presidential family photo showing an adopted child, an African American baby shown on a far left wing cable TV station with a notorious reputation for political harpoon jobs on political candidates with the ex0-candidates such as the one who had lost the election.
The TV reporter, one of a long line in that station who had committed gross offenses on the air, launched a heart felt apology with tears. Alec's Follow up Tweet on the Internet was " If I cry, too, can all my past sins or transgressions be forgiven as well?"
Open to translation, sure. Many, including myself, took it as a sarcastic slap in the face, as so often Baldwin is capable of doing. Any who had seen the tape of him furiously confronting the tall blond TV reporter in front of the restaurant just a few days ago in Manhattan, could easily assume he was about to strike her. I did.
The fury in his voice, face, and clenched fist bespeaks the anger and fury in that man that makes me question - what is Alec so angry about? What in his past has made him so furious? He draws on that for his acting and great performances, of course, but the fuel, and source of all that source of negative venom comes spurting out at the wrong times, burbling across the landscape at the wrong people, the wrong places, ....damage everywhere.
As an actor, he is superb. He has performed on stage and off, in a wide panoply of venues and done so well, it is hard to criticize and critique him negatively, for most of his career, except lately, in the last five to ten years, when loosing his cool, leaking personal aspects of his political views an love life into the arena of every day life, seems, well, beyond his control.
His divorce from a knock out beautiful actress was covered scantily in the press with her remarks in one trade press mentioning that she had enough of his " violent temper." Everything I've read since then seemed to validate that. His publicized blow up with his own daughter broadcast a vindictive tirade aimed at a teenage daughter that would wither most childrens' self esteem. No word on her progress since then.
And now, a kerfuffle by a left wing cable TV news station over a defeated presidential family photo showing an adopted child, an African American baby shown on a far left wing cable TV station with a notorious reputation for political harpoon jobs on political candidates with the ex0-candidates such as the one who had lost the election.
The TV reporter, one of a long line in that station who had committed gross offenses on the air, launched a heart felt apology with tears. Alec's Follow up Tweet on the Internet was " If I cry, too, can all my past sins or transgressions be forgiven as well?"
Open to translation, sure. Many, including myself, took it as a sarcastic slap in the face, as so often Baldwin is capable of doing. Any who had seen the tape of him furiously confronting the tall blond TV reporter in front of the restaurant just a few days ago in Manhattan, could easily assume he was about to strike her. I did.
The fury in his voice, face, and clenched fist bespeaks the anger and fury in that man that makes me question - what is Alec so angry about? What in his past has made him so furious? He draws on that for his acting and great performances, of course, but the fuel, and source of all that source of negative venom comes spurting out at the wrong times, burbling across the landscape at the wrong people, the wrong places, ....damage everywhere.
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