Archive for August, 2008

ALEC Baldwin has been divorced from Oscar-winner Kim Basinger for six years now, but the “30 Rock” star still bristles on the subject of his blond ex-wife.

“Think I’m walking stiffly?” he asks journalist Ian Parker in this week’s New Yorker. “Yeah, there’s a 120-pound actress on my back.”

Baldwin accuses Basinger of trying to destroy his relationship with their daughter, Ireland, 12, with whom they share joint custody after a bitter battle. “Parental alienation is about people who narcissistically project their whole reality onto a child: ‘I don’t need you, so the child doesn’t need you,’ ” he says. “The goal of the alienating parent is to kill contiguous time. People need reliability. They need regularity. And I’ve been the victim of a campaign to kill all that. You wind up being more an uncle than a father.”

Baldwin says that after he and Basinger separated, she inexplicably feared for her life. As they looked for a house for him to rent and toured one on a sheer cliff, “[I said,] ‘You’ve got to come over here and look at this!’ She said, ‘No, no, come back, we’ve got to go. We’re late.’ And then I thought, ‘She thinks I’m going to throw her off this cliff!’ ” Basinger refused to be interviewed.

Baldwin, 50, says he’s “entering that Clinton phase” where young women tell him, “In spite of the fact that you don’t look like a young leading man anymore, I’d quite like to throw you down on this blanket right now.”

The New Yorker also reveals Baldwin once wrote a screenplay for himself and his brothers, Daniel, Billy and Stephen. Billy, star of “Dirty Sexy Money,” recalls: “Basically it was: Daniel’s the outlaw; I’m the riverboat gambler who gets all the [bleep], the shallow good-looking sap; Stephen’s the village idiot; and he’s the [bleep]ing hero! He’s the one who saves the day at the end, he’s the Clint Eastwood . . . That’s the movie he wanted to make about his brothers.”

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James Gandolfini and fiancée Deborah Lin tied the knot Saturday in her hometown of Honolulu, Hawaii, a wedding guest confirms to PEOPLE.

“There was a nice big kiss at the end with both hands on the cheeks” as The Sopranos star and Lin officially became husband and wife, the guest tells PEOPLE. “They looked great.”

As a group of their closest friends and family looked on, Gandolfini, 46, and Lin, a former model, 40, exchanged their vows in an intimate ceremony surrounded by white lilies and rhododendrons adorning every pew held at Central Union Church.

According to the guest, Lin strolled down the aisle in a white gown made of Italian lace while her tuxedoed groom stood waiting as a harpist played the “Hawaiian Wedding Song” in the background.

Gandolfini’s son Michael, 8, from his first marriage to Marcy Wudarsk (which ended in 2002), served as best man.

Following the elegant 20-minute nuptials, the newlyweds stepped into a white stretch limousine bound for the evening reception at a nearby resort.

The couple made their first public appearance on the red carpet in March 2007 for the New York City premiere of the second half of the final season of The Sopranos and have been engaged since late 2007.

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Suzanne Somers sighting on August 30

Katy Perry and Travis McCoy

Katy Perry and her grandmother Ann Hudson

Kourtney Kardashian and her sister Khloe Kardashian

IT didn’t take long for the suits at Johnston & Murphy to react after David Duchovny checked himself into rehab for sex addiction. Yesterday morning, a poster of the fashion retailer’s newest endorser was abruptly yanked from the Johnston & Murphy store window on Madison Avenue and 54th. In July, the company hired Duchovny, who plays a sex-obsessed writer in “Californication,” to appear in ads breaking this month nationwide. A spokesman for the Nashville, Tenn.-based company said at the time, “We are thrilled. David embodies success and confidence, along with a great sense of style, communicating the ideal image for the Johnston & Murphy brand.” But when a customer asked what had happened to Duchovny’s picture, a clerk confessed, “We got the call from corporate this morning to take him down.”

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