Alec Baldwin Has Some Bad News For 30 Rock Fans
Alec Baldwin has an interview in the new Playboy that will be fully online (and on newsstands) on Friday, but they posted a bunch of highlights today. Highlights of the highlights: Alec was suicidal after the voicemail incident (:(), he hates Twitter (emoticon for yawning), and he will never go on the Today Show again after the way they treated him after said voicemail incident. OH, and ALSO, something UTTERLY DEVASTATING:
On his retirement after 30 Rock: "I'm done in 2012. In March 2012 I'll wake up and say, 'What am I going to do now? Am I done?' I think I will be done. I may finish a play or something, but I'm retiring at the wrap party."
This is probably some thing where that's the date his contract has been planned to end all along, or maybe he was just doing his Alec Baldwin-has-no-filter thing, but SAY IT ISN'T SO. Alec Baldwin is the best thing on TV right now, and they're not going to make another one by 2012. I know that's almost three years away, but seriously, that is scary news. I guess it's hard to think of 30 Rock ever ending, and they can't go on without him.
But there's a silver lining-ish part to this interview, which is this really awesome quote:
"I have this silly fantasy. I get married again, I have a kid. I'd love another shot at that, with everything I've learned. My kid's like eight, comes home and says, 'Dad, Jimmy's mom says you were a famous actor on TV and in the movies. Is that true?' And I go, "Yes, Johnny, Dad was famous.' I whip out my scrapbooks and my DVDs and say, 'Believe it or not, that's your dad.' And my kid's like, 'You used to be on TV and everything? And now you stay home and just clean the house all day while Mom works?' 'That's right, son.' It's a dream, that the kid doesn't know anything about that part of my life. Our normal life is uncontaminated by it."
Aside from how interesting and revealing and adorable that quote is (um, I REALLY love Alec Baldwin, but not in that way), I bet this is the picture he plans to show little Johnny:
Even in that humble fantasy Alec Baldwin will still have his same huge, lovable ego.
Posted by Lindsay at 3:45 PM in Interviews
Tags: 30 Rock | Alec Baldwin | Matt Lauer | Playboy | The Today Show
Alec Baldwin seems to pull this balancing act where he embodies this smug high society "latte-liberal" stereotype while he simultaneously parodies it. It's like his tongue never leaves his cheek, and I love him for it.
And personally, I would rather 30 Rock go out on a high note than consider the possibility of it getting stale. I can definitely see an overabundance of romantic subplots a few seasons down the road.
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Agreed. In 2012, it will be the end of its 6th season. Six seasons is good for me and I adore that show. Everytime I hug somebody I think, "Hugging....so ethnic."
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Thank you. My hair just dries like this.
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He had a superman chest!
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Newsflash. We're all gonna be done in 2012.
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Yeah, duh. They're even making a documentary about it.
Learn to read news, Lindsay.
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That quote made me well up.
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"Dad?"
"Yes Johnny"
"Did you make 'the Juror' with Ashton Kutcher's Grandma?"
"That's Demi Moore, his wife, and yes I did."
"Wow-huh. And did you call my sister a 'filthy little pig' on the phone?"
"I did. We had a misunderstanding and dad was frustrated."
"Oh. So does that mean you're frustrated when I make your scotch neat and not on the rocks and you call me 'dumb little prick'?"
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Everyone gets angry.
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Except when most people make mistakes we don't go all "Yeah i was totally suicidal over it." Fuck you, Alec Baldwin.
That little mention made me go from slowly coming back around to Alec Baldwin as a person (not an actor, cause hey! he's still funny), to fully hating him again.
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i have a hard time believing that a BALDWIN could retire from the public's eye. even the best Baldwin.
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He really is the best Baldwin. I find myself repeating that after every episode of 30 Rock.
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And after every episode of "I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here"? Admit it!
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Agreed, though his (much) older brother James wrote some pretty neat books, though none as compelling as The Promise What We Make to Us (I may be a little off on that title).
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i REALLY wish i could vote you up more than once for this!
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Saying Alec is the best Baldwin is sort of like saying Micheal was the best Jackson. Cause, duh, just look at their work. And there's also a bit of uncomfortableness when it comes to their non-professional lives.
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not like the competition is especially fierce, though.
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oh god the other baldwins! you could retire their tired asses right now instead of 2012 but please don't take alec away from me ;__;
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oh god the other baldwins! you could retire their tired asses right now instead of 2012 but please don't take alec away from me ;__;
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...TWIST!
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i think we need to be careful not to confuse alec baldwin with jack donaghy. as it turns out, they're not the same person.
jack donaghy's huge ego = lovable.
alec baldwin's huge ego = ehhh not so much. imho.
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by 2012 30 Rock won't be funny anymore
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I'll be happy to marry you and I will even spawn for you, Mr. Baldwin. The deal is that you can't complain about my weight if I can't complain about yours. No go? Oh.
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I like to imagine that that's the picture he showed Liz Lemon when he talked about getting back in the bubble.
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Is he still seeing the woman who won Stylista? If so, does his reality TV girlfriend knows he dreams a future sans-limelight? Something tells me that wouldn't go over so well.
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oooo the lady will have two tickets to the gun show!
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that really does sound like quite enough time for 30 rock to play out.
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oh mah bama! da alec baldwinj is leavin' in three years manj?!! from 30 rock, da overrated sitcom dat everyones loves cause da tina fey and da baldwin are on itj? oooo nooo! i's missin' his performanceses of mediocrity and da tryin' to bee sooo dry and funnny and not bein goods. but da good wills built up round dat career of his keeps da peoples (especially gabe and lindsayj) fom noticn dat hes not dat funnyj. neither is da tina fey, but dat sarah palin is soooo stupid and tina knows it. she gets da politics.
gabe and lindsayj wills always lubs da folwin
1. baldwin
2. rudd
3. fey
4. norm macdonald
even if dey's all jus coastin on da personalllity and not da talent, dats fine. gabes and lindsayj lubs dem anyways.
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You're not Da Cake Eatur. I don't wanna hear it.
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