Alec Baldwin Cut From Emmy Awards Opening Video
Posted on Sep 18, 2011 @ 04:00PM
Alec Baldwin has been cut from the video that will open tonight's Emmy Awards show.
The video is a series of skits that are intended to be a comical look at the world of TV. Baldwin played the president of a fictional network in a bit that included a joke about the Rupert Murdoch phone hacking scandal.
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The Emmys are airing on the Murdoch-owned Fox TV, and the joke didn't sit well with the powers-that-be.
The phone hacking line, which Baldwin called "the funniest," was cut and when Alec found out, he asked that his entire skit be removed from the video, Deadline Hollywood Reports.
Producers made a last minute decision to re-tape the skit minus the offending phone hacking line with Star Trek's Leonard Nimoy.
Word from Fox is that the decision to cut the phone hacking line wasn't made out of fear it would offend Murdoch but because the company takes the matter "very seriously" and did not want to appear to be making light of it by including it in a comedy routine.
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Either way, Baldwin, a nominee for his starring role on 30 Rock, won't be at the ceremony tonight. He's attending the 85th birthday bash for Tony Bennett in New York.
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Jul 17, 2011 @ 09:30
Just more proof of the engineered "lies of omisson" that Fox News is famous for! If NBC can take it from 30Rock on a weekly basis then Fox should be able to handle one skit!
Posted Mon, 09/19/2011 - 8:06am
He must have put Kim Basinger through hell while she was married to him, and after their divorce too. Going off on his daughter when he thought no one else could hear made me realize what creep he is in private. Horrible man.
Posted Sun, 09/18/2011 - 8:00pm
My impression of this guy is that if you cross him, he goes for the jugular. This seems like another case in point...they wouldn't do it his way so he commands them to cut the entire skit. Yup, it's all about him.
Posted Sun, 09/18/2011 - 11:16pm
I hope the woman who play Molly in Mike 'n" Molly wins for best new whatever. I like that show and she's really funny. The woman who plays her sister should be up for an award too but she isn't. She's hilarious.
Posted Sun, 09/18/2011 - 7:17pm
I stopped watching the Emmys a looong time ago. I do check the gossip sites off and one to see who won what or if someone fell or did something not scripted. You know...fun stuff. lol The same people/shows win every year anyway.
Posted Sun, 09/18/2011 - 7:12pm
Incredible how some of you are such idiots. Repeating lies. He never beat his kid, and he never said he'd leave the country (that was NOT what was said).
Fine not to like the guy...Too bad you can't tell the truth.
Posted Sun, 09/18/2011 - 6:55pm
His quote was: I think my exact comment was that if Bush won it would be a good time to leave the United States. I'm not necessarily going to leave the United States. *** too bad he didn't leave.
Posted Sun, 09/18/2011 - 10:14pm
GOD FORBID WE INSULT MURDOCH AND FOX NEWS, PLEASE SPARE ME.....
Posted Sun, 09/18/2011 - 5:58pm
Sadly, all of these Hollywood awards shows make fun of the political views of half of the nation while not taking
ANY potshots or, ahem, jokes at the others'. I don't really watch the traditional channels anymore anyway.
Don't care who wins.
Posted Sun, 09/18/2011 - 5:46pm
i haven't watched one of the major networks since seinfeld went off the air.
Posted Sun, 09/18/2011 - 6:55pm