Kim Basinger ate my dog
If anyone hasn't heard this yet, you might want to. Alec Baldwin yells at his 11 year old daughter because she doesn't have her phone turned on at the agreed upon time. The audio is pretty harsh and you can hear it here along with his explanation. Apparently the kid's voicemail "mysteriously" showed up on the web.
Baldwin is a well-known actor who has lately been showing a flair for comedy in several movies and tv shows like 30 Rock. His ex-wife is Kim Basinger, a has-been actress. They have been fighting a very public, very contested custody fight for the last year or so. Basinger has repeatedly defied the court, even being charged with contempt for violating judge's orders for visitation.
Okay, I was a single father caught up in custody shenanigans and I understand how rough it can get. On the other hand, he calls her a pig.
So who's to blame?
Easy. Kim Basinger.
People lose their temper in the height of domestic arguing and while not justified or nice or even responsible, it happens. But what occurs inside the family stays in the family. Basinger (for who else would have done it?) putting her daughter's humiliation and shame on display for the world may get some nice smug witchie points with the judge but at what cost to her daughter's eventual emotional well-being? Some day the kid will reconcile with her father and there will always be this between them. I detest people who play this game with kids during custody cases.
My heart goes out to Alec Baldwin who at least deserves the time with his daughter to make his mistakes in person and not have to pour out his anger at his ex-wife on his daughter's answering machine.
Posted on April 20, 2007
