Jennifer Aniston took some time out from calling Angelina Jolie "uncool" to guest star on 30 Rock. Get this: She played a deranged stalker who is in love with a man who's no longer interested in her. Crazy, right?
Anyway, she did a decent job because there's a select few characters at which Aniston excels — and this is one of them. It still feels like she's playing Rachel at all times, but it worked in this scenario. Unfortunately for the show, her appearance failed to boost ratings in the wake of Oprah's legendary guest appearance from last week. Cue the Brangaloonies and Perez Hilton, who will surely say this is all Jen's fault and she can't do anything right.
Our favorite Baldwin brother, Alec, chatted with David Letterman last night about his stint on SNL with national joke Sarah Palin. He has great things to say about the lady, although he admits he doesn't want "her hand on the nuclear button." Sounds like someone's been talking to Matt Damon.
He also shows off his not-as-good-as-Tina Fey Palin impression and reminds us how senile his Bible thumping brother, Stephen, has truly become.
Threatening to box Barack Obama wasn't enough to prove Stephen Baldwin the craziest in his nut-job family, so now he's coming after the other team.
After Sarah Palin's comments on SNL this week that Stephen was her favorite Baldwin, the bass-mouthed brother took to the TV circuit, claiming he would beat down Joe the Plumber for a chance to become the next GOP mascot: "After Joe the Plumber and all the hype he’s getting, it’s making me think that to be the number one Republican kind of poster boy, I have to challenge Joe the Plumber to a UFC Smackdown.”
• Can you sense the Fashion Week excitement? [ICYDK]
• Ruh roh: Alec Baldwin takes on the Scientologists. This is not going to end well. [INO]
• There's a reason Hef's bunnies are blonde. [HT]
• Things went horribly wrong at an Oasis concert, of all places. [DListed]
• Doing the impossible: Finding the 10 best moments of last night's VMAs. [Yeeeah]
• Both Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt showed up for the Toronto Film Festival. Everyone survived. [PS]
DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT, JACK "Alec Baldwin was so humiliated after an angry answer machine message to his 11-year-old daughter was leaked to the media, he contemplated suicide, according to new reports. The actor talks about the depression he spiralled into after the world heard his 'thoughtless little pig' comments, fired at daughter Ireland, in a new autobiography."
We've come to the conclusion that Dane Cook is a genius, because one simple MySpace (yes, we're still trolling that site this afternoon) rant has gotten more people talking about his upcoming movie than should be allowed.
Apparently Dane has an issue with the movie's poster and has decided to point out every little thing that's wrong with it ("My left side looks like Brittany Spears' vagina"), much like a teenage girl who feels the urge to criticize every acceptable picture of herself in a quest for gratification.
After watching the trailer at Dane's request (we fell for it), he does make a valid point that the poster really has nothing to do with the movie's premise — but really? An excessively long tirade that likely took hours to construct is a little much.
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We don't know how they do it, but they do, and it. Is. Fucking. Astonishing.
The maniacs at Fox News somehow put together an earnest segment in which giggly hack Laura Ingraham talks to ACTOR Stephen Baldwin about just why the heck these loudmouth celebrities think they can go around expressing their opinions. We're pretty good at sensing irony, and there is NONE in either of their voices. Not even when Stephen, who, by the way, is the one not as smart as Alec, not as handsome as Billy and not as rugged as Daniel, says, "Here's what's freaky to me: The media and Hollywood is so convinced that mainstream America cares what it thinks." !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
God, we hope this guy's not kidding when he says he's leaving if Obama wins.
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I walked through Union Square on my way to acting class and got offered loose joints. Drug dealing was a great tradition in this city.
There are other traditions people can get involved with in this city. When I was younger, I used to get a bottle of wine and get drunk under the Staten Island Ferry… so there are things like that you can do.
-PETA spokesperson Alec Baldwin on what New York City tourists can do besides ride in cruel horse-drawn carriages
It is a system that is corrupt on his best day. It is like being tied to the back of a pickup truck and dragged down a gravel late at night. No one can hear your cries and complaints and it is not over until they say it's over.
-Alec Baldwin, in his new book A Promise To Ourselves: Fatherhood, Divorce and Family Law, on America's family court system.
Further solidifying his reputation as a grudge-bearing beast, at a party Friday night, Baldwin was overheard saying of his ex, Kim Basinger: "My ex-wife reaches an almost sexual level of satisfaction when she's in a room full of high-priced lawyers."
Alec Baldwin took to the highbrow nursing home that is 60 Minutes last night to discuss, among other things, that notorious voice message in which he called his adolescent daughter a "rude little pig." With narrowed eyes, Baldwin told an old, old Morley Safer that though he is sorry he left the message, he is "pretty overwhelmed by the sanctimoniousness of people." It was a quiet exhibition of the unflinching honesty and unwillingness to bend to public outrage that will ensure this guy never, ever wins the public office he seeks.
EASY TRANSITION "Alec Baldwin says he's … mulling a run for public office. The Massapequa, L.I., entertainer, eldest of the four Baldwin brothers turned actors, says in an interview airing Sunday that politics looks appealing now that he's turned the corner on 50. 'There's other things I want to do,' besides acting, the left-leaning performer tells CBS' '60 Minutes.' 'There's no age limit on running for office, to a degree.' It is 'something I might do one day,' he said."
Billy Baldwin — one of the brothers who is not Alec — thought it would be appropriate to have lunch in Beverly Hills and not pay for it. The waitress chased him down to remind him he must complete the task of actually paying for his meal. Oh, the woes of not being the most famous of the brothers.
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Celebrities make too much money. Subjective, sure, but probably true. Truer still is that very often those fortunes are wasted in inglorious, ill-planned blazes.
But sometimes the millions serve a higher purpose; sixth homes declined in favor of the public that makes a celebrity a celebrity. Yet where are those figures in Star and the National Enquirer?
Screw Birkin bags, time for money that counts: political donations.
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Actor Alec Baldwin has personally written letters to every member of the US Senate to weigh in on childhood obesity and its damaging effects on the nation's future. He writes: "As you are well aware, the epidemic of childhood obesity is worsening day by day, leading to higher risks of diabetes, heart disease and several forms of cancer…I know that you share my concern about this crucial issue." Baldwin wants to see the Senators vote "no" on a bill that would offer subsidies to farmers who produce sugar and cheese.
And so once again, that "rude little pig" spoils the fun for everyone.
• Dora diss on Baldwin. [Jossip]
• Tobey Maguire showing great power, but not great responsibility. [TMZ]
• How long has she been off The Hills? [HT]
• Nicky Hilton showing that blue-blooded charm. [INO]
• Morbid isn't hot. [Glitterati]
• Nicolas Cage not looking too good, not acting too good. [PopSugar]
• Alec taking his enraged voice message and going home. [ICYDK]
• Can they just name FHM Carmen Electra Weekly? [HT]
• Simply irresistible! [Yeeeah]
• Celeb tuckus. [CityRag]
• JC Cha-gay? [Jossip]
• Another biracial advantage? [SH]
• "More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette." Well, in that case… [CityRag]
• If it's considered profane for a woman to grab her crotch while shouting "Eat me!" it's not a party worth attending. [Yeeeah]
• Young Hollywood kitten fight! [HT]
• Let's fight misogyny with censorship! Perfect solution! [SH]
• Scary Spice names her baby after Eddie in a preemptive strike! [ICYDK]
• "Extremely tight schedule" forces Alec Baldwin to duck daughter questions. [Jossip]
• That MySpace blog post really was Paris Hilton's phone number. Leave it up to these idiots to make MySpace completely classless. [ASL]
Here's alleged "little pig" Ireland Baldwin out tarting it up in Los Angeles this weekend. She's petting dogs and walking around as if there's not even the slightest possibility that her mercurial father—who's not sure if she's 12 or 11—may be calling her with a deep-seated resentment and a bloodlust that will only be sated by a scapegoat. Can you say "thoughtless pain in the ass"?
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