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In yet another essay ripping many individuals and institutions in existence, actor and MSNBC alum Alec Baldwin announced that he is sort of quitting ‘public life.’
After blasting Joe Scarborough (“neither eloquent nor funny”), Rachel Maddow (“a phony”), MSNBC and FOX News (equally “full of s–t”), segments of conservative media (“Hate Incorporated”), the media at-large (“superfluous at best and toxic at its worst”), New York City (“I just can’t live in New York anymore”), and America in general (“more f—ed up now than it’s ever been”), Baldwin bid adieu to his public persona in a piece for New York Magazine. Partially.
“It’s good-bye to public life in the way that you try to communicate with an audience playfully like we’re friends, beyond the work you are actually paid for. Letterman. ‘Saturday Night Live.’ That kind of thing,” Baldwin wrote. “I want to go make a movie and be very present for that and give it everything I have, and after we’re done, then the rest of the time is mine.”
Despite professing a continued desire to keep acting, Baldwin actually said in an interview for Vanity Fair last July that he’d love to quit if the circumstances were right.
“I’d love to if I could, yeah. That would be the greatest thing in the world,” he told the magazine.
In that same interview, Baldwin said he would “never” use social media again, saying it’s “all a waste of time.” He also announced he’d stop tweeting in July 2012, and his account was deactivated in December 2011 after he melted down on an American Airlines flight. Yet to this day, he tweets under @ABFalecbaldwin for the Alec Baldwin Foundation, where he mixes personal anecdotes, infrequent political quips, and plenty of pictures.
So maybe he’ll find his way to Letterman’s desk-side someday yet.
Let’s see how Alec Baldwin sort of quitting public life will work out
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