Alright, whatever little “credibility” I have is about to go right out the window. I AM A HUGE ALEC BALDWIN FAN. There, I said it. I always liked the guy until I saw him appear on Saturday Night Live a couple of times… he is easily the best guest they’ve ever had on that show (Schwety Balls anyone?), and ever since then I’ve been a big fan.
Over the last couple of year, Baldwin has started becoming the Don Cherry (all you Canadians know who I’m talking about) of the movie industry. Never hesitating to speak his mind and to hell with whoever doesn’t like it. Well, it looks like Alec is at it again:
[Alec] stunned journalists by launching a scathing attack on the Screen Actor’s Guild and the studio publicity departments for giving him too many movies to promote. He also accused film chiefs of blaming him if their film flops. He complained, “The problem is that most of the marketing that’s done now means ‘let’s get the actor out there to charge up the hill and if you get shot to pieces you get shot to pieces’. Get out there and do Letterman, Good Morning America, these tiresome tedious rounds of promotional things to raise the awareness again in a very crowded marketplace to call attention to your film. It’s a bad, bad situation when there are just so many movies out there right now, which is ridiculous. Actors are treated like suppositories that are inserted into cavities of the movie- going public.”
Now, you’ll have to forgive me if I have a hard time feeling sorry for the poor little overworked famous multi-millionaire. Actors do get asked to do a lot… but at the same time they get compensated quite well for it. But you still gotta respect the man for at least speaking him mind…. even if he is out of it. Go here to read the whole article.
