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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31. Baldwin's description - "a 300 pound homunculus with a face like a clinched fist" - sounds more like he's talking about himself.
Seriously.
Especially the "face that looks like a clenched fist" part.
Or maybe a BLOATED clenched fist would be better.
What a looser!

Posted at 11:15PM on May 11th 2008 by Star Jones = Barbara Walters wannabe

32. ALEC SHUT YOUR TRAP! :)

Posted at 11:16PM on May 11th 2008 by Kelli

33. I can understand Alec. My ex-wife always tries to put my 11year old daughter on the phone to tell me what my ex will not say to me. It is hard going through what Alec and his daughter and his ex are going through. What i have to say to people out there is BEFORE YOU GET MARRIED or have a CHILD with someone. MAKE SURE HE OR SHE IS NOT A CRAZY BITCH.

Posted at 11:24AM on May 13th 2008 by Scott

34. I've said worse to my daughter!

Posted at 11:22PM on May 11th 2008 by having children is over-rated

35. He didn't show much remorse for what he said to poor Ireland. . .just that he was busted for saying it. Way to abuse your pre-teen daughter, Alec. She can probably detect your lack of empathy for her, too.

I would never vote for this hot-headed boob.

Posted at 4:37PM on May 12th 2008 by Kathy

36. Any parent worth their salt has lost their temper with their children. So President Clinton or Bush are perfect because no one has ever recorded a heated exchange that most fathers and daughters have at some point in their lives? What matters is that he and Ireland now have a better relationship and they understand and respect each other. And that we can find some place where we can hope that we might find a place of forgiveness. He surely doesn't deserve any but we should find some point to forgive this and let this pass at least for Ireland's sake.

Posted at 11:25PM on May 11th 2008 by chicken stripper

37. In 2000, Alec swore he would move to Canada if George W Bush became President..... so why hasn`t he moved there yet? Obviously anything that comes out of his big mouth is a lie.
And he`s a fine one to talk about his daughter being fat. Has he looked in the mirror lately? He`s nothing but a big fat pig with a mouth like a sewer. He`s a terrible actor too like the rest of his brothers....well except maybe Steven :-D

Posted at 11:29PM on May 11th 2008 by TaintedLove

38. Cybercritic

Alec didn't out Harvey Levin. Harvey has always been open about it. It's well known he lives with his long time boyfriend.

Posted at 11:32PM on May 11th 2008 by me

39. Too many years of alcoholism and cocaine addiction have turned him into a puffy faced babbling imbecile.

Posted at 11:37PM on May 11th 2008 by FlBiker

40. FlBiker, thank you. I agree, but didn't know how to say it as eloquently as that.

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Posted at 11:46PM on May 11th 2008 by Kelli

41. Alec was interviewed at Sardi's! The first Mr. Chicken Stripper is on that wall somewhere because he is now a Broadway producer. Should've been nicer to him. That's why I have some hope for Alec's temper. Been there.

Posted at 11:47PM on May 11th 2008 by chicken stripper

42. I think there is plenty of blame to go around, even when it comes to the lawyers. As for what he said about his daughter sometimes parent say things they do not mean in anger. He probably told her he was sorry but we will never hear that because it is not news worthy.

Posted at 11:58PM on May 11th 2008 by drea

43. An arrogant, bloated blow-hard. Another actor I used to like and respect before I found out what an A$$ he really is. He's an ignorant jerk and I don't know what Kim ever saw in him. Glad she got rid of him!

Posted at 11:59PM on May 11th 2008 by Can't Stand Him

44. It is marvelous to have opinions about how others might and do live their lives -- it is also thoughtless, emotionally immature, and a waste of thought and time. That said, I rather thing the description of the lawyer has the ring of truth. And that her law partner commented makes it all the more delicious. You go Alec!!!

Posted at 11:59PM on May 11th 2008 by Frank

45. You "thing" so Frank?

Posted at 12:06AM on May 12th 2008 by Can\\\'t Stand Him

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