Alec Baldwin Insults Fellow SNL Performers

But he seems honest enough. And do you know him personally?

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I don't know him personally...NONE of us know celebrities personally if we aren't their friends of family...but remarks such as those in the SNL book give us a "glimpse of the man."

And those ARE honest remarks, but one wonders if John Goodman read them, or some of the SNL stars who made movies did(you can guess who he meant when he was referencing a "sniveling, drooling wuss," there are about three candidates from that era.)

The funny thing is that I think Alec Baldwin reinvented himself marvelously from a "serious lead actor" (The Hunt for Red October, Glengarry Glen Ross) into a skilled comedian, using his whispery voice, his timing, his very body(which went from movie star slender to regular-guy paunchy) to turn into somebody who makes you laugh the second he takes the screen and opens his mouth.

But off screen, he has a pretty long record of bad behavior..not somebody you'd LIKE to know, I don't think.

I was browsing old SNL episodes the other night, and I found Alec Baldwin coming on a Weekend Update to defend himself after getting thrown off a plane for refusing to turn off a computer game hand device. Baldwin faked like he was the airline pilot(in full pilots uniform, hat moustache and Southern accent) and apologized for throwing (himself) off the plane. So even there, Baldwin was willing to "fight back against a bad reputation" and you had to give him credit. He's been a "bad boy" behind the scenes for decades now; This very dire and real tragedy he's gotten into is perhaps yet another hurdle for him to jump, as he has the others in the past.

One more thing: I recall finding those SNL remarks surprisingly snotty and self-involved when I read them in that book, years ago. I finally remembered them when reading some of these other hits on Baldwin.

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I'd enjoy seeing Goodman pound the dogshit out of Baldwin till he cries.