I can't help but like Alec Baldwin. A very good actor. A funny, sort of twisted psyche. But he got himself in hot water with some pretty harsh comments he unleashed at some of the paparazzi who have hounded him and his family.
And some of his comments were probably rightly (or wrongly) interpreted to be "anti-gay." And well, he may have designs on a political career, and that all has kind of blown up. Up in smoke. Especially since he's sort of a liberal Democrat. He got on the wrong side of some pretty prominent gay people: Anderson Cooper, Andrew Sullivan, Rachel Maddow. Myself, I can see how some people would be offended, but at the same time, I kind of get it that he was just very, very pissed off, and used offensive language.
Offensive language is par for the course when you are majorly pissed off. Doesn't seem that crazy to me. And doesn't mean Alec is a bigot.
This fish-bowl celebrity culture really is too much. It's a big, ugly, monster that never stops. And just because Alec Baldwin is a "public figure" doesn't mean his wife and children should be fair game to the press too. Alec now wants to "give up public life." Understandable. Funny. True.