Alec Baldwin elevates Buffalo…above Utica
Feb 28, 2009 What's Going On
I found this via On Location Vacations: Alec Baldwin will be performing in my hometown of Buffalo tonight, reading the Mamet play “Speed the Plow” at Rockwell Hall to help raise money for a local theater company. Mr. Baldwin, who is, by many many accounts, an asshole, handed Buffalo a huge back-handed compliment while trying to say that it deserved an off-Broadway theater. “I mean, Buffalo’s a big town. It’s not, you know, Utica.” Which naturally caused Utica to get defensive and brag about its newly-renovated theater.
I once stood next to Alec Baldwin for a few minutes, patiently waiting to hand him a business card, while he was chatting with fans. He managed not to be an asshole for those few minutes, although he was extremely smarmy. He was cooing over a baby, and was just being a little too, I don’t know, intense and deliberate about it. Public image rehab, perhaps, for the message he left his daughter?
Originally posted on Selfish Mom
Alec Baldwin in Buffalo This Weekend, Bashes Utica in Statement [Filming In Utica]
Tags: Alec Baldwin, Buffalo, David Mamet, Kim Basinger, Rockwell Hall, Speed the Plow, Utica
