Defamer
For all the career renaissance we've seen from Alec Baldwin over the last three or four years, not even his Golden Globe for 30 Rock overshadows his legendary turn as "Sociopathic Father" in last year's wildly popular Web-exclusive release Thoughtless Little Pig. Even Morley Safer couldn't stop talking about it last night on 60 Minutes; in the accompanying video, watch the "appalling" Baldwin float like a butterfly and sting like a bee under Safer's withering sallies, punch back with word of his forthcoming book on "divorce and parental alienation" and finally score the knockout with his disarming rejoinder about a potential political career: "There's other things I want to do. I mean, in a matter of weeks I'm going to be 50... By 60 Minutes correspondent terms, I am a young man!" Oh, Alec, you bastard. We just can't stay mad at you. [60 Minutes]
Alec Baldwin Fights Off '60 Minutes' Offensive With Thoughtful Age Gags
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11:15 AM on Mon May 12 2008
By STV
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Team Alec. Sanctimonious is right -- I'm sure that little brat had it coming. If that's the worst thing one of her parents ever says to her, she's leading a charmed life as far as I'm concerned.
"I'm going to be 50... By 60 Minutes correspondent terms, I am a young man!"
ZING! Team Alec.
Show of hands - how many people wish that was the worst thing their parents / guardians ever said/did to them?
That's what I thought. Beat it Team Sanctimonious/Judgemental.
Team Baldwin all the way. And Morley Safer seems like the kind of guy who would make his wife yell at the kids while he sat in his office nursing a brandy.
Love him. He's hilarious and so effing smart. Team Alec!
Yeah Alec! He totally right, by the way. Twelve year old kids can be a royal, royal, pain in the ass, and after a year of hearing that message I don't even think it was that bad anymore. And I fully call shenanigans on Safer's claim that he finds the words difficult to utter. Bitch, please!
Finally, I would TOTALLY watch "Law & Order" if he was a judge. That would rule.
Safer lost that argument the second they replayed and quoted the tape. Team Alec all the f*cking way.
He's still hot. Okay, could lose 15, 20 lbs and a wee bit of a temper. But he's still got it. Besides, parents yell at their kids sometimes, big whoop, hardly a newsflash.
He's a fantastic actor and deserves all kinds of awards but...
Team 12 year old: Those Baldwins are one hot tranny mess... and she needs all the help she can get before she extends the family line of foolishness.
Whenever journalists act like saints who've never made mistakes when talking to actors with issues. Last time I checked, there's a lot of journalists out there who should check themselves.
My old man said far worse to me & look how fucked up I turned out.
It was Mama Basinger who took the truly disgusting turn when she leaked the tape to the tabs!
@nick_r: You paint such a clear portrait of Safer I feel it must be true.
I like Alec, but damn glad he ain't my babydaddy. Schwetty Balls all the way!
When the media blew that out of proportion I just laughed and said, "They think that's bad? Holy shit, they don't know what my friends, my parents and everybody else I know endured over the years."
60 minutes offensive? You are kidding, right. That was a liberal lovefest.
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