Baldwin is hysterically funny in 30 Rock. I've never thought of him as a comedy actor before this, but his comic timing on the show just impeccable.
And everyone forgets his first movie was BEETLEJUICE.
Dreg: Glory, Your Most Fresh-And-Cleanness. It's only a matter of time-- Glory: Ugh, everything always takes time! What about my time? Does anyone appreciate I'm on a schedule here?! Tick tock, Dreg! Tick freakin' tock!
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Frankenbuddha - Mar 19, 2007 9:06:36 am PDT #7890 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
DavidS - Mar 19, 2007 9:08:35 am PDT #7891 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
His performance in Miami Blues is funny too, in a demented and dangerous way.
Vonnie K - Mar 19, 2007 9:09:18 am PDT #7892 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
And everyone forgets his first movie was BEETLEJUICE.
I know! He was fabulous in that, if I recall. Instead doing all those crappy dramas (GGGR excepted, etc.), he should have done more comedy. Even in The Departed, he mostly stole the scenes with his spot-on comedic performance.
Frankenbuddha - Mar 19, 2007 9:17:41 am PDT #7893 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I'm a big fan of MALICE, but I'm not sure I'd call it a good movie.
He did seem to start out doing comic roles, supporting or otherwise (besides BEETLEJUICE, he was also in WORKING GIRL and MARRIED TO THE MOB around the same time), but then he tried to play the leading man game. Though he was the best Jack Ryan in the best Jack Ryan movie.
I still wish he had ended up doing GALAXY QUEST like he was supposed to. Tim Allen was fine, but I think Baldwin would have been SUBLIME as a Shatner type.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 19, 2007 9:25:29 am PDT #7894 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
And everyone forgets his first movie was BEETLEJUICE.
Maybe because he was actually in Forever Lulu and several TV movies like Dress Gray before Beetlejuice?
I first became aware of him on Knots Landing, where his character went from naive hick to abusive televangelist to dead in about 8 episodes.
Polter-Cow - Mar 19, 2007 9:39:20 am PDT #7895 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I loved Alec Baldwin in The Shadow.
Hayden - Mar 19, 2007 9:41:57 am PDT #7896 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
He was great in Outside Providence, too.
erikaj - Mar 19, 2007 9:47:00 am PDT #7897 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
That was a really great movie, Corwood, and, yeah.
Kathy A - Mar 19, 2007 9:55:13 am PDT #7898 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Though he was the best Jack Ryan in the best Jack Ryan movie.
Dad and I caught most of the last hour of Hunt for Red October on TNT yesterday afternoon before going to see The Departed, and I was telling him exactly the same thing!
beekaytee - Mar 19, 2007 12:32:34 pm PDT #7899 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
I loved AB in State and Main. "So, that happened." I use that line in my work all the time.