Daddy Dearest

Alec Baldwin left an extremely angry voicemail for his and ex-wife Kim Basinger’s 11-year-old daughter Ireland Baldwin when he couldn’t get in touch with her, as reported by TMZ yesterday. Here’s the transcript:

Hey I want to tell you something, okay, and I want to leave a message for you right now, cos again it’s 10:30 her in New York on a Wednesday and once again, I have made an ass of myself trying to get to a phone to call you at a specific time. When the time comes for me to make the phone call, I stop whatever I’m doing and I go and I make that phone call at 11 o’clock in the morning in New York and if you don’t pick up the phone at 10 o’clock at night and you don’t even have that goddamn phone turned on.

I’m tired of playing this game with you. I’m leaving this message for you to tell you that you have insulted me for the last time. You have insulted me. You don’t have the brains or the decency as a human being… I don’t give a damn that you’re 12 years old or 11 years old, or a child, or that your mother is a thoughtless pain in the ass who doesn’t care about what you do as far as I’m concerned.

You have humiliated me for the last time with this phone and when I come out there next week. I’m going to fly out there for the day just to straighten you out on this issue. I’m going to let you know just how disappointed in you that I am and how angry I am with you that you’ve done this to me again.

You made me feel like s*** and you’ve made me feel like a fool over and over and over again. And this crap you pull on me with this goddamn phone situation that you would never dream of doing to your mother and you do it to me constantly and over and over again. I am going to get on a plane and I am going to straighten your ass out when I see you.

Do you understand me? I am going to really make sure you get it. That I’m going to get on a plane and I’m gonna turn around and come home. So you better be ready Friday the 20th to meet with me. So I’m going to let you know how I feel, about what a rude little pig you really are. You are a rude thoughtless little pig. Okay?

Basinger’s publicist Annette Wolfe said, “The voicemail speaks for itself.”
Baldwin’s spokesperson told Extra, “In the best interest of the child, Alec will do what the mother is pathologically incapable of doing … keeping his mouth shut and obeying the court order. The mother and her lawyer leaked this sealed material in violation of a court order. Although Alec acknowledges that he should have used different language in parenting his child, everyone who knows him privately knows what he has been put through for the past six years.”
You can listen to Alec Baldwin’s angry voicemail to Ireland here.

Oh holy hell! What a f**king psycho!! I'm not surprised though. He's been in celebrity news before with his anger issues, but to go off on a little girl, WHO IS HIS KID, damn!!

He always made it out to be that Kim was the bad guy and was unreasonable, making it hard for him to see the girl, well no wonder. And if I was the child no way in hell would I answer the phone and talk to his crazy ass. Actually it's probably not talking but listening to him yell and scream and call her names. You KNOW damn well this isn't the first time he's done this.

I'm glad Kim "leaked" this. Now everyone will know what a freak he really is. Not that we didn't. PR nightmare especially since he has a movie coming out. It will bomb even if it was going to anyway. And I wanted to go see it too.

Other than Joey I like all the rest of the Dancing w/Stars so I don't know who to wish off. Today it was done to Heather (she fell at the end yesterday) and Clive (or is it Clyde?) and of course Clive/Clyde went. I think the problem is that he's too tall. Ma said he's 6'7" or some ungodly height like that. Well hell no he can't dance, his partner is probably 5'5".

Apollo got all 10's so that was good but I HATE, HATE, HATE that Joey. I want him gone.

UGGGGGGGGGGG

Yippee!!! Leeza's gone. Ugg. I just can't stand her. I don't know why she annoys me so much. When she talks on her own, she's actually intelligent and uplifting. For instance, ""I believe just showing up for your life anytime makes you a winner," Gibbons said, adding that her fellow competitors have "nerves of steel and hearts of gold." Doesn't that just make you want to cry. (ok, I haven't taken my anti-depressants but still it's nice. Even with that I JUST CAN'T STAND HER.

So I feel bad for her partner, but they were up against Cliff (from Cheers) and she had to go. Bye-bye. I'm glad because I was tired Monday night so I didn't watch it and thought I could vote today but I waited too long.

Unfortunately, that damn Joey is the judge's favorite. He's my next choice to be gone.

From People (the publist's mouthpiece so of course it's true)


Danny Bonaduce's Wife Files for Divorce
TUESDAY APRIL 10, 2007

Danny Bonaduce's wife of 16 years filed for divorce Tuesday.

Gretchen Bonaduce, 41, who tangled with her husband on their reality show Breaking Bonaduce, cited irreconcilable differences, according to the papers filed in Los Angeles Superior Court.

She is seeking full custody of their daughter, 12, and son, 6, with visitation rights for Bonaduce, in addition to spousal support and legal fees.

Earlier Tuesday, Bonaduce said on radio's syndicated Adam Carolla Show that Gretchen had informed him he'd be served with divorce papers.

"I don't want a divorce," Bonaduce said, adding: "I'm heartbroken at the prospect of getting a divorce."

His rep, Ken Capurso, tells PEOPLE: "Even though they still care about each other and their two children, Gretchen felt it wasn't a great atmosphere to raise the kids."

The couple aired their marital issues and Danny's substance abuse troubles on Breaking Bonaduce, which last was broadcast in 2006 on VH1.

Bonaduce, 47, a former child star from the '70s TV show The Partridge Family, will celebrate one year of sobriety on April 18, Capurso says.

Another celeb marriage hits the bricks. Well she put in a good effort. I think she's crazy. It's one thing to not want to divorce, or to stay together "for the kids" (they were on Dr.Phil) but to subject the kids to his abuse for their entire lives is criminal.

The girl is 12 years old and he's only been sober for the past year. I'm sure she's plenty messed up now for good and I place the entire blame on Gretchen. Yeah, Danny is an addict but she had to have known that in the years BEFORE she had kids.

I know from Al-Anon (at least the group I went to) they encourage you to work on YOU instead of trying to change the addict but I felt then and still do, that you need to GET OUT of the situation sooner rather than later. "But I LOVE him", how the hell do you know who he is? You only know the drunk, high person he lets you see. If I wouldn't have already been away from the alcoholic that sent me to Al-Anon I would have left after hearing the women there and finding out how long they stayed. If I had had kids I wouldn't have needed to be told I wouldn't have been there.

The bad thing is: My pick for next celeb break-up was wrong again!! (BTW--where are all these long-term couples coming from) My money is still on Douglas-CZJ and Cox-Arquette. (What the hell are they waiting for??)

Hee. Another funny as heck drawing from Gallery of the Absurd. Click on the link to see the whole picture. This is just my favorite part.

'Christmas Story' director dies in crash

Film director Robert Clark, best known for the holiday classic "A Christmas Story," was killed with his son Wednesday in a head-on crash with a vehicle steered into the wrong lane by a drunken driver, police and the filmmaker's assistant said.

Clark, 67, and son Ariel Hanrath-Clark, 22, were killed in the accident in Pacific Palisades, said Lyne Leavy, Clark's personal assistant.

The two men were in an Infiniti that collided head-on with a GMC Yukon around 2:30 a.m. PDT, said Lt. Paul Vernon, a police spokesman. The driver of the other car was under the influence of alcohol and was driving without a license, Vernon said.

The driver, Hector Velazquez-Nava, 24, of Los Angeles, remained hospitalized and will be booked for investigation of gross vehicular manslaughter after being treated, Vernon said. A female passenger in his car also was taken to the hospital with minor injuries and released, police said.

In Clark's most famous film, all 9-year-old Ralphie Parker wants for Christmas is an official Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot range model air rifle.

His mother, teacher and Santa Claus all warn: "You'll shoot your eye out, kid."

A school bully named Scut Farkus, a leg lamp, a freezing flagpole mishap and some four-letter defiance helped the movie become a seasonal fixture with "It's A Wonderful Life" and "Miracle on 34th Street."
Scott Schwartz, who played Flick in "A Christmas Story" and kept in touch with Clark, called Clark one of the "nicest, sweetest guys that you'd ever want to come in contact with."

"It's a tragic day for all of us who knew and loved Bob Clark," Schwartz said. "Bob was a fun-loving, jelly-roll kind of guy who will be sorely missed."

Clark specialized in horror movies and thrillers early in his career, directing such 1970s flicks as "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things," "Murder by Decree," "Breaking Point" and "Black Christmas," which was remade last year.

His breakout success came with 1981's sex farce "Porky's," a coming-of-age romp that he followed two years later with "Porky's II: The Next Day."

In 1983, "A Christmas Story" marked a career high for Clark. Darrin McGavin, Melinda Dillon and Peter Billingsley starred in the adaptation of Jean Shepard's childhood memoir of a boy in the 1940s.

The film was a modest theatrical success, but critics loved it.
In 1994, Clark directed a forgettable sequel, "It Runs in the Family," featuring Charles Grodin, Mary Steenburgen and Kieran Culkin in a continuation of Shepard's memoirs.

In recent years, Clark made family comedies that were savaged by critics, including "Karate Dog," "Baby Geniuses" and its sequel, "Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2."

Among Clark's other movies were Sylvester Stallone and Dolly Parton's "Rhinestone," Timothy Hutton's "Turk 182!", and Gene Hackman and Dan Aykroyd's "Loose Cannons."

It's still surprising to me, that 27 years after MADD (mothers against drunk driving) was started that people still drink and drive. I'm not against drinking, I drink at times. When I was young, I drank and drove around town--once--but then I smartened up and I've never done it again. I make sure that anywhere I'm at that no one with me leaves and drives if they aren't sober. Most of the time I'm the DD. It's just sad that people are still killing others because of their irresponsibility.

My last newest favorite show, Dirt, has ended it's season. So now I have a new favorite, Dancing w/the Stars. Did you know this is it's 4th season? I didn't know that. I forgot to watch it until last week on Tuesday which is the elimination day. I missed most of it today too, but my two favorite's are: Heather Mills and Billy Ray Cyrus and I got to see them. Billy Ray isn't too good but he's fun to watch and they show a snippet of practice and he's funny.

I saw Heather Mills on Larry King (last week or the week before) and I've decided I really like her. She may or may not be a little touched but she has a great attitude and she's witty. I especially like that she's taking fugly old McCartney to the cleaners.

I hate Joey Fontone & Leeza Gibbons. I didn't get to see Cliff from Cheers dance this week but I like him too. He was picked up late as a replacement for some fat guy from the Sopranos that was a pain in the ass on Celebrity Fat Club. He was an ass on that show and quit it too but after it started.