

So instead of moving across the river to Brooklyn – the NEW New York – you'll pack up your family and move to L.A. New York doesn”t seem the place for that anymore.' I want my newest child to have as normal and decent a life as I can provide. And the soul of New York has moved to Brooklyn, where everything new and exciting seems to be. is a place where you live behind a gate, you get in a car, your interaction with the public is minimal. 'I probably have to move out of New York. Alec Baldwin, I will never forgive you for making Shia LeBeouf the sympathetic party. It is not entitlement to expect professionalism from a man who has been in entertainment since before you were the weird kid on 'Even Stevens'.

And then you expect us – the readers – to pat you on the back and tell say you did the right thing? I believe I may faint from the vacuum created in the room by your arrogance. You took the stage manager aside and passively aggressively got your co-worker fired because he dared to tell you to take your job seriously and memorize your lines. He had that card, that card you get when you make films that make a lot of money that gives you a certain kind of entitlement.' They said no, no, no, no, and they fired him. I said, “I”ll tell you what, I”ll go.” I said don”t fire the kid, I”ll quit. And I took the stage manager, with Sullivan, to another room, and I said one of us is going to go. “You realize the lines are written in a certain order?” He just glared at me. I snorted a bit, and, turning to him in front of the whole cast, I asked, “If I don”t say my words fast enough, you”re going to just say your next line?” I said. So – damn you Baldwin for making me side with LaBeaouf – you're trying to paint Shia as the bad guy because he took his job seriously and was upset when you weren't memorizing your lines? You're chuckling to yourself and ribbing us in the elbow to get us to disparage his work ethic? What? You realize a play is live right? You can't say 'Line!' or 'Cut!' or start the scene over and then piece it together from the fifty takes you just did. And if you don”t say your lines, I”m just going to keep saying my lines.”' He said, “You”re slowing me down, and you don”t know your lines. And one day he attacked me in front of everyone. You could tell right away he loves to argue. So he began to sulk because he felt we were slowing him down. (What else do you do in jail?) I, however, do not learn my lines in advance. He took that to heart and learned all his lines in advance, even emailing me videos in which he read aloud his lines from the entire play. When he came to rehearsal, he was told it was important to memorize his lines. LaBeouf seems to carry with him, to put it mildly, a jailhouse mentality wherever he goes.

'There was friction between us from the beginning. And that tone is a letter scrawled in a notebook, left open on the kitchen table for mom to find because Alec's running away from home cuz life is hard and unfair and he s to the Minit Mart before realizing at fourteen he has no money for bus fare and has to call mom to come pick him up and by the way, what's for dinner? Can you live-blog a written article? Well if you couldn't before today, you can now.

You can read his rant in its entirety over here but I've saved you the trouble by pulling out the choicest bits. So now he's going to take his ball and home.this time for super serious you guys. Instead Baldwin is simply 'fed up' with how the media machine works in the 21st century. Published in the Februprint edition of New York Magazine and then online at Vulture yesterday evening, the missive seems to have no catalyst. Prompted by who-knows-what reasoning, Alec Baldwin recently decided to bid farewell once more to the public spotlight via a long and meandering essay.
