Baldwin’s days of rage

Alec Baldwin thinks he’s finally got his anger under control, said Todd Purdum in Vanity Fair. The 30 Rock star spent much of the last decade boiling with rage as he fought a bitter, protracted child-custody battle with ex-wife Kim Basinger. The legal scrap got so nasty, Baldwin says, that he started to dream about killing Basinger’s lawyer “with a baseball bat.” But he reserved his most gruesome revenge fantasies for Harvey Levin, the creator of gossip website TMZ.com, which in 2007 released a voice mail recording of Baldwin calling his then 11-year-old daughter “a rude, thoughtless little pig.” The actor said he “wanted to stick a knife” in Levin, “gut him and kill him, and I wanted him to die breathing his last breath looking into my eyes.” Baldwin now feels more philosophical about his enemies. “You have to let that go. Enough time, it does heal wounds.” Baldwin’s new wife, 28-year-old yoga instructor Hilaria Thomas, whom he married last month, has helped him achieve this sense of calm. He’s so deliriously in love that he says he often pauses to wonder, “Where the hell did I get this woman from?” He thinks she might be some kind of reward. “But I don’t know what I did.”

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