The AP reports on the ongoing courtroom drama between actor/reality TV personality/bankrupt Republican Stephen Baldwin and actor/musician/celebrity investor Kevin Costner, which took a turn for the salacious this week when a witness testified that Baldwin had transpired to “blackmail” Costner over a sum of $21 million involving the pair’s interests in ocean clean-up technology, of all things, following the 2010 BP oil spill. “I said, ‘Stephen, that’s blackmail,’” [business associate Scott Smith] recalled. He quoted Baldwin as saying, “I have to be careful how I do it.” And to think, it all started when the Bio-Dome and Waterworld stars joined forces in the name of the environment… [AP via Fox News]
And now for unsurprising news that you’ll still be shocked to hear: Stephen Baldwin carries a knife to movie premieres. Sigh! If Alec is the august Baldwin, William is the functional, competent Baldwin, and Daniel is the downtrodden Baldwin, Stephen is certainly the wild card. (Those of us who watched both of his seasons on Celebrity Mole know this best.) Let an intrepid reporter tell you her story of interviewing Stephen and encountering his four-inch blade.
According to Vulture, Baldwin’s red carpet behavior at a screening of Rachel Weisz’s new movie The Whistlebower warranted a whistleblowing of its own. After Baldwin spoke of his involvement with a charity, he produced the knife like a shady guest in Mr. Boddy’s mansion.
…Baldwin then talked about his work with an organization called Love146, which aims to prevent child sex slavery and exploitation. “They’re involved in the militia groups that go in and rescue people, things like that,” he explained. Does he undertake any such missions himself? “Not that I could talk about with you here,” he said, somewhat mysteriously.
And this is where he pulled a knife — out of his pants pocket — and held it up between us.
“Let’s just say that if anyone tries to do anything to you tonight,” he said in an assuring manner, “I’ve got your back. Okay?”
Okay! Contemplating the four- or five-inch blade before us, we wondered aloud if he took it everywhere with him. “Yeah,” he said. “And a few other things.”
Does the knife have a name? Yes, he said: “My assistant.”
Future interviewers might want to keep this encounter in mind.
What if he wasn’t kidding and the knife was his real assistant? I’d…
Full Story »What would happen if you were torn between your nut job Christian husband (Patrick Wilson) and a dreamy Atheist played by Sons of Anarchy’s Charlie Hunman? Allow Matthew Chapman, the Runaway Jury screenwriter and the great-great grandson of Charles Darwin, to show you in his upcoming thriller The Ledge.
Chapman pits Liv Tyler as the brunette torn between two men (and philosophies!) and Terrence Howard as the detective who tries to literally talk Hunman’s character down from the ledge. Let’s take a look at the trailer and see if it’s fit enough to survive the summer box office.
Come June 16, I might just apply Stephen Baldwin’s advice here and skip the screening in favor of “get[ting] down with the gospel of salvation.” Anyone else with me?
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While at a screening for Kenneth Branagh’s superhero adventure last night, Celebrity Apprentice alum Stephen Baldwin suggested that members of the press skip the screening altogether in favor of, well, finding salvation. “You should go home right after this,” Baldwin told Vulture. “Don’t even see Thor and get down with the gospel of salvation and have fun with it.” So yeah, there’s that option this summer. [Vulture]
