Yeesh - Alec Baldwin just plopped into a world of hurt

[Baby Lee]

Breaking - details forthcoming

Discharged a 'prop' weapon that resulted in a death and another severe injury.

https://www.santafenewmexican.com/ne...c47b69ce5.html

[FlaChief58]

Originally Posted by Frazod

Oh I know. My first lust was Valerie Bertinelli.

I've always been enamored with Michelle Phillips of the Mama's and the Pappas. She's 77 years old now, but given the chance I'd give her the best 30 seconds of her life

[Radar Chief]

Originally Posted by Spott

For some reason I couldn’t remember her name, but I remember her in the Hand That Rocks the Cradle too. I’ll be back in 10 minutes. I have to go run to the bathroom and comb my hair.

Dude, look up the hooker scene from Risky Business.

[suzzer99]

https://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...walked-off-set

Hours before actor Alec Baldwin fatally shot a cinematographer on the New Mexico set of “Rust” with a prop gun, a half-dozen camera crew workers walked off the set to protest working conditions.

The camera operators and their assistants were frustrated by the conditions surrounding the low-budget film, including complaints of long hours and pay, according to three people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to comment.

The camera crew showed up for work as expected at 6:30 a.m. Thursday and began gathering up their gear and personal belongings to leave, one knowledgeable crew member told the Los Angeles Times.

Labor trouble had been brewing for days on the dusty set at the Bonanza Creek Ranch near Santa Fe.

Shooting began on Oct. 6 and members of the production said they had been promised the production would pay for their hotel rooms in Santa Fe.

But after filming began, the crews were told they instead would be required to make the 50-mile drive from Albuquerque each day, rather than stay overnight in nearby Santa Fe.

The cinematographer who was accidentally killed, Halyna Hutchins, had been advocating for safer conditions for her team, said one crew member who was on the set.

As the camera crew — members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees — spent about an hour assembling their gear at the Bonanza Creek Ranch, several nonunion crew members showed up to replace them, the knowledgeable person said.

A member of the producer staff then ordered the union members to leave the set. She said if they didn’t leave, the producers would call security to remove them.

“Corners were being cut — and they brought in nonunion people so they could continue to shooting,” the knowledgeable person said.

There were two misfires on the prop gun and one the previous week, the person said, adding “there was a serious lack of safety meetings on this set.”

Damn - this is getting into criminal negligence territory.

Also regarding the live round email sent out by the union:

“As many of us have already heard, there was an accidental weapons discharge on a production titled Rust being filmed in New Mexico,” said the North Hollywood-based local. “A live single round was accidentally fired on set by the principal actor, hitting both the Director of Photography, Local 600 member Halyna Hutchins, and Director Joel Souza. Both were rushed to the hospital,” the email said.

A source close to The Times said the union does not know what projectile was in the gun and clarified that “live” is an industry term that refers to a gun being loaded with some material such as a blank ready for filming.

[The Franchise]

The guy who’s in charge of the prop gun is about to get ****ed.

[Iowanian]

I hope a former national public official takes the opportunity to make squish faced Alec Baldwin skits about gun safety.

[Frazod]

As seen on Facebook

[Sofa King]

Lol

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by ThyKingdomCome15

So he fired a weapon he believed was fake and it killed somebody? I need more details.

Now THAT's great acting.

[splatbass]

Originally Posted by Bump

acting is no excuse for manslaughter. Name any other situation where the person that fires that shot doesn't get charged with something.

The propmaster is in charge of loading the gun and training the actors to use them safely. If he handed Baldwin the gun how is it Baldwin's fault?

[splatbass]

Originally Posted by RedinTexas

Baldwin is an anti-gun zealot. Those people tend to be incredibly ignorant not only about guns, but about gun safety. I'll bet that when more details are known we will find out that he was violating gun-safety rules that could have prevented this death.

Based on what, your dislike of him? Why don't you wait until the facts come out before making up your mind that he is guilty?

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by splatbass

The propmaster is in charge of loading the gun and training the actors to use them safely. If he handed Baldwin the gun how is it Baldwin's fault?

It sounds like Baldwin never hired a qualified weaponmaster in the first place, and that's on Baldwin.

A guy who cleans up at the gun shop isn't qualified to run the range just because he sweeps up spent brass.

[splatbass]

Originally Posted by Frazod

I have no respect for anybody who rants and raves about the evils of guns, except for the ones they use in movies to get paid millions of dollars OR the ones carried by their bodyguards. .

So an actor can only play roles of people who agree with them? That would mean no one could play a murderer or any other character that they personally find repulsive. Ridiculously illogical.

I'm not anti-gun by the way before you predictably say I am.

[DaFace]

Originally Posted by Frazod

It sounds like Baldwin never hired a qualified weaponmaster in the first place, and that's on Baldwin.

A guy who cleans up at the gun shop isn't qualified to run the range just because he sweeps up spent brass.

I think you're oversimplifying this quite a bit and making a lot of assumptions based on your dislike of the guy. He's one of six producers among five production companies. While it's remotely possible that he has some responsibility for decisions related to the crew, it's a pretty big leap to assume that he personally made the decision that they didn't need a union armorer on set. And even if he did, unless they knowingly hired someone who wasn't qualified, it still comes down to whoever's job it was to make sure the guns on set were safe.

[EPodolak]

Man must feel like he's living a nightmare. Her family also, awful.

[dlphg9]

Looks like this thread filled up with DC loons pretty quickly. Blowing your loads over a guy, who made fun of your favorite spray tanned tick, killing someone on accident.