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Alec Baldwin Uncensored: On His HBO Doc, Bloomberg, Polanski, and The New York Times

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Alec Baldwin, along with director James Toback, filmed the documentary Seduced and Abandoned at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. The doc explores the horrors of film financing, and will air Oct. 28 on HBO. Baldwin spoke with Marlow Stern about the doc and his new MSNBC show, and had some choice words for Mayor Bloomberg, the “scumbag” paparazzi, and The New York Times.

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If an artist’s career is, like a film, measured in three acts, Alec Baldwin just began his third.

After seven seasons portraying Jack Donaghy, the cavalier curmudgeon on NBC’s celebrated sitcom 30 Rock, resulting in a staggering seven Emmy nominations—and two wins—Baldwin has embarked on a new venture: talk show host....

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