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Community Community The Maria Marte, Shantiniketan an immigrant P7Indian School P16 in Spain, has student council gone from a cleaner at members for a restaurant to its head 2017-18 are sworn chef, overlooking 15 in at a ceremony. other cooks. Friday, April 14, 2017 Rajab 17, 1438 AH DOHA 27°C—40°C TODAY LEISURE 12 & 13 LIFESTYLE/HOROSCOPE 14 COVER STORY Nevertheless Alec Baldwin reflects on his life, career in witty memoir. P2-3 2 GULF TIMES Friday, April 14, 2017 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Alec Baldwin PRAYER TIME writes back Fajr 3.54am Shorooq (sunrise) 5.13am Zuhr (noon) 11.34am The star he never quite became, as opposed to the star Asr (afternoon) 3.04pm Maghreb (sunset) 5.58pm Isha (night) 7.27pm he is, eats at him. 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K. Community Editor Kamran Rehmat e-mail: [email protected] Telephone: 44466405 Fax: 44350474 Friday, April 14, 2017 GULF TIMES 3 COVER STORY COMMUNITY “I’m not actually writing this book to discuss my work, my opinions, or my life. I’m not writing it to explain some of the painful situations I’ve either landed in or thrown myself into. I’m writing it because I was RAVE REVIEWS: Alec Baldwin famously impersonating now-US president Donald Trump on television. paid to write it” f you happen to like Alec chapters are more diff use and tend I’m writing it because I was paid to drank my way to Hollywood.” on a “sleep cruise,” he sounds Baldwin, why do you like to get caught up in grocery-listing write it.” His relationships with women genuinely grateful and happy for him? There are plenty of the remaining stops along Baldwin’s Baldwin says a lot in three words. consisted, he writes, of practising what he has. He has chips on both reasons. Baldwin came up resume, as well as his tangles with Beyond the “rivers of Tab,” he his acting on them. He had a shoulders, however. The star he with that jolly, fantastic line various agents, managers and describes his childhood school bus “nagging need for attention that never quite became, as opposed Ireading in Martin Scorsese’s The publicists. Nevertheless. I’m glad as “a rolling jailhouse.” High school, would fi ll the holes my parents were to the star he is, eats at him. His Departed — “Patriot Act! I love it I I read it; the good stuff in it is very he says, was “a blur of wanting too enervated to address.” political preoccupations are many, love it I LOVE it!” — and that alone good. things I couldn’t have and missing Soon he washed up, happily, on and now that Baldwin is best is enough for me. “Six kids and no help” is how the wonderful moments right in the shores of Knots Landing, on known for doing Donald Trump on For many admirers of his work, Baldwin describes his mother’s front of me.” That line reminded me which he played Lisa Hartman’s Saturday Night Live, other facets it starts and ends with Baldwin’s existence, as young Alexander of something Baldwin told me in a love interest. It was worth it, he of his career have been pushed to uniquely commanding, medium- (who went by Xander) and his fi ve 2013 interview at the Cannes Film writes, to get to know the actress the background. (The sketches grade-sandpaper voice, conveying siblings grew up in Massapequa, Festival. Baldwin marvelled at that Julie Harris. A brief engagement grew less funny, but the fi rst time a hint of authoritarian fellow. NY. His father died young, at year’s fi lm festival jury president, to Janine Turner, later of Northern Baldwin did Tony Bennett on Certainly he has played his share 53, in 1983. “When she struck Steven Spielberg. “He never Exposure, gets a nod. In each SNL, it was one of the greatest, of such intimidating men. And on you,” Baldwin writes early on ceases to amaze me. He’s having actor’s life, there are the roads not most aff ectionate celebrity 30 Rock, where Baldwin soared in Nevertheless, “her right arm a wonderful time. He’s happy. taken, the acting off ers debated impersonations in modern TV for seven seasons as Tina Fey’s sprang toward you … snap! … like There’s no base line of tension and juggled, decisions regretted. history.) exquisite foil, the network kingpin Navratilova’s backhand.” within him. Most people in this When Baldwin declined to join Baldwin’s a tough critic. State Jack Donaghy, he reminded The author recalls the “rivers of business, they don’t have enough the original off -Broadway cast and Main (2000), written by David everybody how funny he was. Tab” his mother swallowed over the of what they want, or they’re of Craig Lucas’ play Prelude to a Mamet, remains “one of the few As Donaghy, he killed, reliably, years. The family never had enough worried about losing some of what Kiss in its transfer to Broadway, he of my own movies that I can stand treading a fi ne line between money. “Acting,” Baldwin writes, they’ve accrued.” In Nevertheless had his reasons: a million-dollar watching,” he writes. He’s also a deadly understatement and blithe “was a way to ease, though never Baldwin tacitly acknowledges that, payday for the male lead in the jabber, unrepentant. Just for the disengagement regarding the petty eliminate, the fi nancial anxieties individual fortunes aside, he’ll ill-fated Neil Simon-scripted hell of it, he takes a shot at Harrison problems of mere mortals. of the boy from South Shore never be one of the tiny number of romantic comedy The Marrying Ford, the guy who swiped his Jack In his ruminative new memoir, Long Island who remains inside Spielbergs in the industry. Man, opposite Basinger. It was “a Ryan franchise role after Baldwin Nevertheless, Baldwin reveals bits me today.” He goes on: “I’m not We learn of Baldwin’s decision devastating mistake,” he writes, one originated it in The Hunt for Red and pieces of a life and career full actually writing this book to discuss to attend George Washington that “changed my career and my October. Baldwin speculates that of switchbacks, some handled my work, my opinions, or my life. University in Washington, DC, life forever.” Ford’s lack of critical respect and more wisely than others. The I’m not writing it to explain some then New York University. He Today Baldwin has three young Academy Award recognition “must forlorn, faraway look in Baldwin’s of the painful situations I’ve either lands a role on the soap opera The children with his wife, Hilaria, frustrate, if not burden him, after eyes on the book cover suggests a landed in or thrown myself into. Doctors, before he “snorted and and while he daydreams of going his long career.” Like a few million personality with a lot on his mind. other US citizens, he looks to the The actor, New York Philharmonic north for inspiration in the Trump orchestra announcer, radio era: “Away from the ceaseless noise, and television personality and hucksterism, and smugness of combustible activist, “addicted to America, Canada itself is a balm to solitude” by age 9, may be 30-plus the soul.” years sober, but some addictions Such pronouncements, in the are tougher to shake than the end, aren’t as rich as what Baldwin chemical ones. has to say, however reluctantly, This is Baldwin’s second book. about what he does for a living. His The fi rst, A Promise to Ourselves: memoir concludes with an A-to-Z A Journey Through Fatherhood compendium of actors he admires and Divorce, came out in 2008. It (Gary Oldman, in his view, is the ground through the many years of best fi lm actor of his generation). If Baldwin’s wearying custody travails navigating a challenging childhood regarding the now-adult daughter feeds the hungry young performer’s Baldwin shares, uneasily, with his soul, Baldwin wonders if his eldest ex-wife, Kim Basinger. Aspects daughter, Ireland, is destined for of that legal battle royal come up success in that direction. “She’s for further review in Nevertheless, eclectic and funny,” he writes. which takes its title from an old, “But most important of all, she is raunchy theatre joke. But mostly in no hurry for you to know her. the leading man concerns himself Which compels you to come to her. here with a tricky childhood and his In acting, that may be the most years as a performer on the rise. important quality of all.” The fi rst half of Nevertheless is Her father has the same quality.