Alec Baldwin Threatens To Literally Bury Schwarzenegger Documentary In Pile Of His Own Filth
30 Rock's Vice President of East Coast Television and Microwave Programming, Alec Baldwin, has a storied history of not backing down from fights, whether he's getting all up in the grill of an NYPD officer who disagrees that his celebrity status somehow exempts him from airplane-crash-site cordons, or tattling to a gossip columnist about how a particularly difficult costume designer is a "fruit-salad head." The actor now once again finds himself at odds—this time with the producers of an Arnold Schwarzenegger documentary he was contracted to narrate—and Radar reports that the beastly Baldwin hasn't minced words in registering his displeasure:
After the producers of Running With Arnold, a new documentary about Arnold Schwarzenegger, let it be known that they had no intention of granting Baldwin's request to remove his narration from the film, the Running With Scissors star threatened to "shit all over this film in the press." [...]
Baldwin objects to footage in the film implying a connection between Schwarzenegger and Nazism. According to Abrams's notes, obtained by Radar, Gabrawy had offered to screen an early cut of the film for Baldwin before he recorded his narration, but "Baldwin stated that he was a busy and important celebrity and did not have time to watch the film before the recording session."
Hollywood, Interrupted is reporting that the filmmakers compromised by removing some of the Nazi material, but that Baldwin still wasn't satisfied and has issued a cease and desist against using his already-in-the-can vocal track. The Nazi excuse is perceived as a flimsy one—Schwarzenegger's father was a member of the Sturmabteilung division of the Nazi party, a biographical bullet-point that's hard to avoid—and one of the producers told The O'Reilly Factor yesterday that "there's a financial element" to his motives. It remains to be seen if the filmmakers will ultimately bend to the will of their reneging narrator, thereby sparing their labor of love a smelly, suffocating fate beneath an avalanche of Baldwin's "busy and important celebrity" excrement.
