Why Me?

Excellent profile of Alec Baldwin from the New Yorker:

He is very conscious of what is lacking in his life—a spouse, for example, and a film career something like Jack Nicholson’s, and the governorship of New York—and his rhetoric can sometimes bring to mind a scene from “30 Rock” in which Baldwin, in his role as Jack Donaghy, a shameless but astute TV executive, stares at an equestrian painting by Stubbs and, in a growled whisper of longing, says, “I wish I were a horse—strong, free, my chestnut haunches glistening in the sun.”

Short version: He doesn’t appreciate what he has, he hates what he doesn’t. But we love him anyways.

# 2008 Sep 08