“ In East Hampton, I’m a nudist and I eat meat,” Baldwin—a vegetarian—had said before my visit, expanding on the idea that he lived a quite different life on Long Island than he did in New York. “I shoot deer with a bow and arrow. I smoke the deer meat and eat it every morning with my eggs and toast. I am a homosexual. I listen to rock music, loud.
— Alec Baldwin, profiled by Ian Parker in the New Yorker. The piece is long - tops 8,000 words, which is 15 pages single spaced - but it’s worth it. I read it over the course of a few days, and I’m glad I made it to the end. It is an incredible picture of him - I love 30 Rock, and I love Alec Baldwin and Tina Fey in 30 Rock so much more than I’ve loved people on the television before - but his personality! In real life! It’s crazy.
