Celebrity Justice
Alec Smarts on "60 Min."

Alec Baldwin vented on "60 Minutes" about the voice mail message to his daughter which TMZ first published. He also trashes Kim Basinger's lawyer.


In the segment, which airs tonight, Baldwin says, "You get so frustrated, and you realized, number one, and it's wrong. It's totally wrong ... that I was really speaking to someone else when I left that message. I was pissed. I had been putting up with this for six years."

As for calling his daughter a "thoughtless little pig," Baldwin thinks the real damage is that the voice mail went public.

Baldwin's venom was targeted at Basinger's lawyer, Judy Bogen. When asked about his comment that she resembled "a 300 pound homunculus with a face like a clinched fist," he said he was being "kind" and that it was not abusive given what she put him through.

Tonight, Bogan's law partner, Neal Hersh, blasted Baldwin, saying, "His personal attacks were socially and morally unacceptable, not to mention inaccurate. He defended his actions rather than take responsibility."

BTW, a homunculus is "a miniature adult that in the theory of preformation is held to inhabit the germ cell and to produce a mature individual merely by an increase in size."

Tags: 60 minutes, 60Minutes, Alec baldwin, AlecBaldwin

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16. Am I the only one that thinks his daughter was unfairly influenced by her maniac mother? He was frustrated because, yes she was ignoring his calls wich is thoughtless. So give him a break. Most kids can be thoughtless little pigs, and his was being one. He told her she was, so what?

Posted at 10:25PM on May 11th 2008 by Allison

17. Hmmm...I wonder how TMZ will treat Alec Baldwin this time around.....last time he retaliated by outing Harvey Levin.

Posted at 10:42PM on May 11th 2008 by CyberCritic

18. I'm surprised how many sensitive people are prompt to react to Alec Baldwin's words.

Otherwise slandering the children of other celebrities on the internet, and enjoying it, seems totally acceptable by the same people.

Posted at 11:01PM on May 11th 2008 by Delicado

19. Whos kid hasn't acted like a thoughtless little pig at one time or another, they're kids? Happy Mothers Day.

Posted at 10:48PM on May 11th 2008 by Kelli

20. homonculus means germ cell?

I thought he meant human homunculus the section in the primary motor cortex (brodman area #4) of the human brain that represent our body parts a.k.a. the inverted H.A.L. I guess there's another meaning of it.


Posted at 10:52PM on May 11th 2008 by anon

21. Most kids can be thoughtless little pigs, but Alec Baldwin seems to have a true anger problem and yelling at his kid isn't the only thing he has done. Alec B. just seems mad at something and he's been this way for years!! I guess his extreme liberalism is getting to him!

Posted at 10:54PM on May 11th 2008 by Lenn K.

22. LOVE ALEC BALDWIN, LOVE EVERYTHING HE DOES, LOVE HIS POLITICS, I HOPE HE RUNS FOR A STATE SENATOR FROM SOMEWHERE, NEW YORK I GUESS, SMALL WONDER THAT EVERYTHING HE IS IN IS SUCH A SUCCESS BECAUSE HE IS SO TALENTED, SEXY AND BRIGHT.

Posted at 10:58PM on May 11th 2008 by hollywoody5000

23. such a shame when the kids r used !!....and he is still putting himself out there to discuss this situation in the media. SELFISH. He needs to shut -up already, his poor daughter!

Posted at 11:07PM on May 11th 2008 by just saying

24. There is no excuse for Alec Baldwin's message to his daughter, and clearly he does not understand that. It doesn't matter if he feels his ex-wife is turning his daughter against him or if he feels the custody situation is unfair or whether or not he was just having a bad day. What he said qualified as verbal abuse, and it was inexcusable. Period. The fact that he thinks the worse thing about this is that it was made public shows just how narcissistic he is- he's putting his own pain onto his daughter. This guy needs to just shut up. And BTW- "parental alienation" is not a "syndrome"; no formal research has been done to see if this "syndrome" exists. The term "parental alienation" was coined by a psychologist who consulted in child custody cases and wrote a single paper on it; this psychologist's judgment was questionable in many areas, and he later committed suicide.

Posted at 11:00PM on May 11th 2008 by Edie

25. Lenn K., glad you agree with me on the kid part. Alec is a little aggressive and dramatic for my taste.

Posted at 11:01PM on May 11th 2008 by Kelli

26. If he can convince the voters he can channel that deep, raw rage into some positive political action then he will make an awsome public servant.

Posted at 11:01PM on May 11th 2008 by chicken stripper

27. Alec Baldwin is disgusting. There he goes again blaming everyone else for what he did. He's a has-been though, he doesn't really matter anymore.

I feel sorry for his daughter though and his ex-wife, she seems like she is a really good mother and she and Ireland seem very close. You go, Kim.

Posted at 11:26PM on May 11th 2008 by Cindy

28. Uh Di , post 2 , you can take your physical abuse theory and shove it where the sun does not shine.
Anyone whom hits their children are in need of anger management and their asses thrown in jail.
I have seen numerous families without physical abuse and the kids grew up very adjusted.
My mother was a tyrant .
She was always hung over from her binge drinking weekends at clubs and would take it out on my brother and I .
Horrible things that I could never imagine a child being subjected to and for that I abhor her .
She's proud of her violent way and she can go to hell as far as I am concerned.
I would have much rather her being verbally abusive than the violence she inflicted upon my brother and I if I had to choose between the two.
My brother and I were terrified of her for years.
By the way , all the comments about Alec ageing ... so cold .
In my humble opinion , he still looks good and the people he works with for up to 12 hours a day really enjoy him , so I believe his accusations against the bitch lawyer . Female lawyers are the WORST , very dramatic and very calculating versus male lawyers.
Before anyone goes nuts on that comment , I am a female and I have seen female lawyers in action and I just want to cringe. They act like it is a personal vendetta against the opposing party .The drama they stir up is humorous at best .

Posted at 11:10PM on May 11th 2008 by STOP THE VIOLENCE

29. Does he not have one friend or family member who can say to him "ALEC, SHUT YOUR TRAP!"

Posted at 11:12PM on May 11th 2008 by Lillianne

30. If he was that brutal to his own daughter doncha think he would be passionate about positive change? Haven't we had enough of wimpy politicians? It's the narcissistic fireheads in public office that demand and get dramatic results.

Posted at 11:13PM on May 11th 2008 by chicken stripper

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