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| Bloviate this |
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| The New York Times |
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| Sat, April 28, 2007 |
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TV writer Alessandra Stanley makes this sarcastic plea that Alec Baldwin stick with his acting day job on the TV show "30 Rock." Baldwin, trying to repair his image after gossip reporters picked up on an abusive voice mail he left for his young daughter, warned that he may leave TV to promote his ideas on fixing a dysfunctional divorce system. "He was looking to persuade," Stanley wrote of Baldwin's appearance on "The View," "but was mostly painful to watch — a little like Captain Queeg melting down on the witness stand in 'The Caine Mutiny.'" It's easy to mock actors with public-policy pretensions. Baldwin's nickname bestowed by The New York Post says it all: the Bloviator. But before we bury Baldwin in scorn -- and without forgiving him for his behavior toward a child -- it might behoove us to listen to what he has to say about divorce law. He's not exactly alone in his frustration over a system that seems to send many good people off the deep end. But he occupies a public place that many angry divorced parents lack, and a popular forum that policymakers only dream of. Let him use it to start a thoughtful conversation about needed reforms.
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Posted at 08:26 AM
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