Alec Baldwin has long lived at the center of a storm. Now comes a hurricane

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October 28, 2021 Alec Baldwin has long lived at the center of a storm. Now comes a hurricane Baldwin has often found himself embroiled in controversies and legal scrapes of his own making, from a dispute over a parking space that led to his arrest to getting kicked off an airplane because he refused to stop playing Words With Friends before takeoff. And that Trump impersonation? It also made him a hated figure in far-right circles. So when Baldwin fatally shot the "Rust" cinematographer while rehearsing a gunfight scene last week, he became the public face of a tragedy that has again highlighted his polarizing persona both within the industry and the nation itself. Read more ADVERTISEMENT

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