Known for his unsavoury comments and questionable views, Alec Baldwin is no stranger to paparazzi-induced rage. On screen he is a respected presence , able to play a great range of characters from his menacing appearance in Glengarry Glenross to his hilarious turn as Jack Donaghy in 30 Rock. Outside of his acting though there is a different side to the man recently he has been taken to task for using a homophobic slur against a photographer and this is just one of his less saintly actions off screen. The event I'm focusing on here happened in 2012 as Baldwin was leaving the New York Marriage License Bureau with fiancée Hillaria Thomas. There are two sides to this story but I think the above picture speaks more directly to one of them. Baldwin claimed that he was nearly struck in the face by a camera, later tweeting in typical classy fashion #allpaparazzishouldbewaterboarded. This wasn't how the newspaper who sent the photographer viewed the proceedings, but nothing ever really came of it apart from the snapshot of Alec Baldwin's violent tendencies.
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