Alec Baldwin sat down with Rose O'Donnell and Barbara Walters yesterday and taped an interview that will air tomorrow on "The View" to address the now famous voicemail he left for his daughter Ireland (seen above, more on that here).  Baldwin says he's so upset he asked to be released from his contract on "30 Rock", but NBC refused so he will return next year.  Other than that, expect to learn absolutely nothing, since Rosie has already publicly defended Baldwin and Walters will just ask crap like his favorite color and if Anastasia would be a good name for a cat.  Page Six says:

Baldwin was described as "soft-spoken, apologetic and thoughtful" during the chat. Baldwin said that when he left an angry voice mail for Ireland calling her "a rude, thoughtless little pig," he was inappropriately directing feelings that should have been expressed to Kim. "He had never done this before. He also talked [in the interview] about the time he spent two weeks with Ireland [but] without Kim in L.A. As soon as Kim returned, his daughter stopped picking up the phone…"

What a dick.  He's a real tough guy when it's him vs. a little girl, but then he gets in trouble and he'll only face coddling morons who wont challenge him on anything.  I don't care if he's 45, or 44, or a grown man, someone needs to straighten his ass OUT.   (see what I did there.  take that, Alex!)

Just a few months ago, Alec Baldwin was on "Larry King Live", and when Larry asked him about his daughter, Alec's demeanor was quite a bit different than it was in the now famous audio tape released earlier today (that story here).   To say he's a different person in private is like calling Kirsten Dunst "sorta ugly".  It’s a massive understatement that borders on being an outright lie.  It seems clear that Baldwin is a sociopath and needs to be arrested, without trial, and then maybe killed.  The hippies may scoff at the moral implications of something like that, to which I would fake a cough while barking out "homo".  To further discredit their pedantic objection, I would grab their wrists in front of the other members of whatever board is in charge of this sort of thing and demand they "stop hitting yourself". The room would then fill with murmuring and my powerful Aristotelian logic would win the day.

This audio tape - recorded last Wednesday, April 11th - of Alec Baldwin screaming like a maniac at his 11-year-old daughter in a voice mail pretty much typifies everything you ever hear about Alec Baldwin. He's an insane angry jackass with a hair-trigger temper, but man, he really does have a great voice. His delivery on lines like "you're a rude little pig" and "you don't have the brains or the decency as a human being…" is just top-notch. You really believe the person on the other end is a rude little pig. Baldwin really commits to the bit and sells it. And then you remember it's an 11-year-old little girl, probably with pig tails and hugging a kitty, and that 11-year-olds should be chasing fireflies and playing kick the can, not getting screamed at by self-important dickhead millionaires. Hey Alec, fuck you.

A transcript:  "Hey I wanna tell you something okay, and I wanna leave a message for you right now because again its 10:30 here in New York on a Wednesday and once again I've made an ass of myself trying to get to a phone to call you at a specific time. When the time comes for me to make the phone call I stop whatever I'm doing and I go and I make that phone call at eleven-o-clock in the morning in New York and if you don't pick up the phone at ten-o-clock at night and you don't even have that god damn phone turned on. I want you to know something okay, I'm tired of playing this game with you. I'm leaving this message with you to tell you, you have insulted me for the last time. You have insulted me, you don’t have the brains or the decency as a human being, I don't give a damn if you're 12-years-old, or 11-years-old, or that you're a child, or that your mother is a thoughtless pain in the ass, who doesn't care about what you do as far as I'm concerned, you have humiliated me for the last time with this phone, and when I come out there next week, I'm gonna fly out there for the day just to straighten you out on this issue, I'm gonna let you know just how disappointed in you I am and how angry I am with you that you've done this to me again. You have made me feel like shit and you have made me feel like a fool over and over and over again, and this crap you pull on me with this god damn phone situation that you would never dream of doing to your mother and you do it to me constantly, and over and over again. I am gonna get on a plane or I am gonna come out there for the day and I'm gonna straighten your ass out when I see you, do you understand me? I'm gonna really make sure you get it. Then I'm gonna get on a plane and I'm gonna turn around and I'm gonna come home. So you better be ready Friday, the 20th, to meet with me so I'm gonna let you know just how I feel about what a rude little pig you really are. You are a rude thoughtless little pig, okay."



A source tells Page Six today that Alec Baldwin was a "total bastard" and a "tyrant" while working on "The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing".   Co-star Sarah Michelle Gellar is said to have been "very professional and hardworking", but Baldwin’s famous temper made life miserable for everyone during the production.  This is in stark contrast to Gellar telling reporters recently how much she liked Baldwin and enjoyed working with him.  The source says that was simply PR:

“She hated that he was always telling the director what to do and calling the shots about everything - and that he was constantly on the phone with his lawyer screaming at the top of his lungs and cursing.  Sarah thought it was unprofessional.  To top it all off, Alec doesn't like her. He thinks she's a pushy primadonna."

It would make the movie a lot more interesting if Sarah would just say all the really horrible stuff.  I’d probably go see it then.  No one wants to hear how generous Alec was and how he gave her a playground as an actor.  She should tell the papers that he would hunt bald eagles and make hobos fight for money.  Now that’s how you promote a movie!