Alec Baldwin

AdWeek's AdFreak blogger, David Giantasio brings word—and image!—of this 30 Rock promotional stunt from The Netherlands that's so strange, it has to be real.

Behold, Oscar-nominated actor and recent New Yorker profile subject Alec Baldwin's face on toilet paper. (This comes via TVTattle.)

Someone should probably send a case of this stuff to the staff of the New York Post's Page Six' and Fox News' Bill O'Reilly, each of whom has elevated hating the outspoken Mr. Baldwin to a life mission.

As you have no doubt already heard, the season three premiere of 30 Rock is available online at this very moment. (Hooray! It looks like we have something to do this weekend!) If you’re one of those old fashioned folks who wants to wait until next Thursday to watch the show on an actual television set, you can still get your 30 Rock fix over at Paste Magazine. In preparation for season three, they’ve compiled a list they call “The 30 Best Moments from 30 Rock Thus Far”. Being through only two full seasons, you might think it’s hard to come up with that many noteworthy moments.  read more »

If you are anything like us—it's O.K. if you're not!—you like to keep abreast of the long-running soap opera that is the saga of the Baldwin Brothers. So much more than the sum of their parts, the quartet of actors manage to cover all ends of the talent and political spectra with their entertaining brand of blue-eyed, overbearing crazy. This morning was a special one, as we found three out of Alexander and Carole's four boys in news. Presented in ascending order, fame-wise:

Page Six Magazine caught up with Candis Cayne, who co-stars with the dreamiest Baldwin, Billy, on ABC's Dirty Sexy Money. Besides complimenting the penultimate Baldwin on his kissing skills, the transsexual actress says that Billy's wife, Chynna Phillips, "is a very lucky woman. Billy is a great guy inside and out. He always makes me feel comfortable during our love scenes. It's not always easy being sexy with 10 crewmen standing around. I'm very honored to be working with such a professional—he's taught me a lot and become one of my very best friends." Jealous!  read more »

The 60th Primetime Emmy Awards air Sunday on ABC. And in preparation, we thought it would be fun to give you a little help on your office pool. Welcome to Day 4 of our Emmy preview!

We've already handicapped both supporting races and the lead actresses. Now it's time to look at the actors.

Best Actor, Comedy: Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock; Steve Carell, The Office; Lee Pace, Pushing Daisies; Tony Shalhoub, Monk; Charlie Sheen, Two and a Half Men

Who we're pulling for: We weren't the biggest fans of the fourth season of The Office. It was hit and miss , with episodes ranging from profoundly funny to profoundly stupid. Still, Steve Carell was a supreme constant. He managed to inject Michael Scott with an underlying humanity, even in the most absurd situations. This is the third time Mr. Carell has been nominated and, thus far, he hasn't won. But doesn't it feel like he should have?

Prediction: With apologies to Mr. Carell, we'd be shocked if Alec Baldwin didn't win for 30 Rock.  read more »

Columbia students have been harassing James Franco, who's enrolled in an MFA program in writing. [P6]

Mary-Kate Olsen forced organizers of at the Rock and Republic show to re-seat her in between Gossip Girl stars Chace Crawford and Jessica Szohr, though she later obliged them by "[smiling] in the front row." [NYDN]

Sean 'Diddy' Combs totally lied about having a private jet!  [Palm Beach Post]

For those who don't know their Hamish Bowles from their Michael Roberts: The good people at Cityfile have put together an illustrated guide to prominent fashion week faces. [Cityfile]    read more »

Apparently, an increasingly coherent and aware Britney Spears is upset about her mother Lynne's forthcoming tell-all, Through the Storm. The book reveals, among other things, that the pop star lost her virginity at 14 and began drinking in middle school, along with embarrassing details about Britney's many, many crack-ups. No longer content to act as a passive, panty-less A.T.M. for everyone in her circle, Spears is "furious" with her mother, especially since she thinks Lynne "caused so many of her problems and issues" to begin with. We're inclined to believe her--history tells us that just about everything can be blamed on overbearing, childhood-denying, money-hungry stage parents.  read more »

When a television comedy gets overloaded with stunt casting, it usually means the show is just not funny and thus has to over-compensate by dangling shiny objects in front of viewers' faces. Think Will & Grace. "Look there's Matt Damon! And that's Demi Moore! Oh, I love Michael Douglas!"

With 30 Rock, it's the opposite. It's pretty much the funniest show on television, hands down. [Though we also love Samantha Who?. And Gavin and Stacey!--ed. note] But 30 Rock's overabundance of guest stars (last year  alone featured Elaine Stritch, Edie Falco, Rip Torn, Steve Buscemi, Buck Henry, Andy Richter and Jerry Seinfeld) is more used tomake up for a sheer lack of viewers.  read more »

Tomorrow evening, the East Hampton Library will host its fourth annual Author's Night benefit, Page Six reported today. All of the proceeds will benefit the library (though an Authors Only summer share might be kinda fun too!). Over 80 writers are expected to attend, including E.L. Doctorow, Jay McInerney, A.M. Holmes, Marie Brenner, Malachy McCourt, Steven Gaines, Barbara Goldsmith, Robert A.M. Stern, Fareed Zakaria, Tom Clavin, Sidney Offit, Philip Schultz, and Nelson DeMille.

The Daily Transom called up Sheila Rogers, the library's spokesperson. "It's just one famous writer after another!" she exclaimed. (We long for the days when a writer could have a house on the East End.  read more »

The rain didn't deter Hamptonites from making their way to Bridgehampton for the polo matches, but when they got there, the fields were muddy and the games had been canceled. Fortunately suave polo player Nacho Figueras was there to make everyone feel better, Irina Aleksander reports.

Then Ms. Aleksander muscled her way into ZoneHampton, a gym frequented by the likes of Alec Baldwin, Kelly Ripa and Matthew Broderick, and spent an hour huffing and puffing with Gregg Cook, possibly the East End's most motivating spinning instructor.

On Sunday evening, the Transom's favorite tippler George Gurley found himself at the afterparty for a premiere of a film about wine, but there was very little alcohol to be had! Also, no one seemed to even be interested in imbibing. We hope this does not portend a fall season of sobriety.

Finally, the Transom met up with the comely Anisha Lakhani, former Dalton schoolmarm with a new roman-a-clef who might find that her fancy new friends turn on her once they discover the subject of her next novel. As Ms. Lakhani says, "Wink, wink!"

Residents of the Hamptons will be doing their part to raise money (and the average contribution figure) for Barack Obama's Victory Fund at an August 17 fund-raiser with special guest Caroline Kennedy, according to an invite sent in by a reader. (Obama will not be in attendance.) The hosts of the event are Ross Bleckner and Dorothy Lichtenstein, and the co-hosts include just about everyone in Hampton's society.

According to an invite, illustrated with an Obama portrait and bearing a "Carpooling Encouraged," reminder, co-hosts in alphabetical order include Alec Baldwin, Christy Turlington Burns & Ed Burns, Barbara Lee Diamonstein-Spielvogel and Carl Spielvogel, Laura Durning, Jason Epstein, Katie Lee and Billy Joel, Ellen Chesler & Matt Malow, Obama veteran donors Jay Johnson and Brian Mathis, Isaac Mizrahi, Gwyneth Paltrow, Rosie Perez, Jane Rosenthal, Russell Simmons, and Robert Zimmerman, among others.  read more »

Page Six meant to report that Katie Couric might be returning to NBC when Jeff Zucker was spotted visiting her Upper East Side apartment, but instead totally outed Mr. Zucker to his wife! The NBC Universal CEO was simply picking up a gift that he asked Katie to buy for his wife for mother's day. [P6]  read more »

MONDAY

There’s something comforting about the predictability of House (Fox, 9 p.m.), which returns tonight. Sometimes it’s nice to have a show where you can set your watch by its familiar plot points, like the show’s every climax where Dr. House has reluctantly ordered some incredibly invasive procedure to cure a patient, only to have it interrupted at the last moment by a new symptom or a phrase that triggers one of Dr. House’s Eureka moments. But, finally, there’s a twist! It’s now on Mondays. (You probably saw that one coming, too.)  read more »

It looked on Friday night as though the 15th annual Hamptons International Film Festival were going to be a washout. Torrential rains slowed traffic to a baby crawl on the Long Island Expressway, and by the time it was a little before 7 p.m., the assorted bedraggled paparazzi were fidgeting and joking among themselves at the sight of the empty red carpet at the East Hampton Cinema on Main Street, the hub of the festival.  read more »

Sometimes, apparently, people just go to a tennis match to watch tennis.

Shortly after the end of the first set between Carlos Moya and Novak Djokovic last night, a crowd-cam zeroed in on Alec Baldwin, who was sitting some ten rows from the court, just below the President’s Suite. Some fans in the crowd booed.

The 49-year-old actor called a young man in a coat and tie down from the President’s suite to speak with him while pointing up at the big screen. A few minutes later, Baldwin grabbed his wheat-colored Panama hat and left.

Hedgy hedge-fund colony in new iteration, America’s Monaco, as reverse migration kicks in; who needs New York, anyhow? Della Femina, ‘We have more airplanes than most countries.’  read more »

On the evening of Thursday, Sept.  read more »

It’s a pity the garbage dump is missing from the Roundabout Theatre’s revival of Joe Ort  read more »

There's a true story that Tom Stoppard liked to tell about a man he knew who kept peacocks.  read more »

Somewhere around Los Angeles, Alec Baldwin was taking a hike and panting."I don't want to go all ove  read more »

"This is like the New York Oscars, except without any of the annoying prestige," said Michael Ian Bl  read more »

The first words in The Hamptons -Barbara Kopple's thoughtful, meandering voyage through the social w  read more »

Mom RocksIt was enough to make a mother proud–and we don't mean a member of Frank Zappa's original  read more »

On the evening of Saturday July 8, actor Alec Baldwin sipped from a plastic cup filled with orange l  read more »

It used to be easy. You were either gay or you were straight.  read more »

Jeanne Moreau: La Bitch Is BackAt the reception in the French Embassy on April 23 for the release of  read more »

The helicopters made mechanical thunder in the overcast sky as they descended in pairs to the East H  read more »

A serious tone crept into State Democratic Committee chairman Judith Hope's voice.  read more »

From: The Office of Strategic Summer Vacation Planning.To: Office of the President.  read more »

Restaurant Union Deluges Ark Michael Weinstein, the man at the helm of Ark Restaurants Corporation,  read more »

No amount of Saint Johnswort will get you through U-Turn.  read more »

For actor Alec Baldwin, the response is natural.  read more »