Why Hollywood won't cast Kim Basinger anymore - Batman (1989) Discussion

[–] ebhaynz (3525) 5 years ago

I just got back to the U.S. after being gone for over 20 years. None of the things that Kim Basinger or Alec Baldwin or any of the other 300 million plus people surprise me at all. The culture of crazy is very strong in the U.S., there's a few videos on YouTube that ask "is everyone in America crazy?". Of course, that's mostly a silly question but I have to say that while I don't think everyone is crazy it does seem like most people are unhappy, miserable, obese, unpleasant, whiners, selfish, greedy, arrogant etc. Most countries I lived in people were much more stable with the exceptions of Canada, The U.K. and Australia, it's like they're our close cousins lol. This is just my perspective your opinion may vary.
So, do I think Basinger is Bi-Polar or just plain crazy? Nah, she's very typical of what's going on in America. Baldwin is absolutely a hate crime in progress in many ways he and Basinger deserved each other. They're just HORRIBLE people, not uncommon AT ALL here.

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[–] TMC-4 (19386) 5 years ago

Of course, I don't absolutely know for sure if Kim Basinger is bipolar, but there's definitely something off (like a chemical imbalance) about her, which naturally negatively impacted her career. I suppose, that she's one of those people who never seems to be on an even keel if that makes sense.

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[–] ebhaynz (3525) 5 years ago

It's possible the way attractive women are coddled from childhood cause them to become such a primadonna they're likely to have huge emotional issues, especially when they don't get everything in the world handed to them on a silver platter. Society makes up an excuse for them by calling them Bi-Polar..she's just an impossible human being.

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[–] TMC-4 (19386) 5 years ago

I wonder if Marilyn Monroe's career would've essentially wound up like Kim Basinger's had Marilyn lived beyond the age of 36. To give you some proper perspective:
https://www.datalounge.com/thread/20860005-poor-marilyn-monroe-looked-so-tired-and-worn-out-in-this-photo

Her career probably wouldn't have lasted much longer if she'd lived. Her unprofessionalism, the recent flops, aging out of sexy-girl roles would have been enough to end anyone's time at the top, and then tastes were about to change.

She wouldn't have got into the pop culture of the sixties, although if she'd lived she might have liked the hippies. And their new and interesting drugs.

—Anonymous

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https://www.quora.com/What-was-Marilyn-Monroe-really-like-to-work-with

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[–] ebhaynz (3525) 5 years ago

Well, she admitted she was a train-wreck on her last picture The Misfits, going so far as to admit that having Montgomery Clift in the cast was almost a relief since he was the only one more messed up than her. I think she would have always had work, which isn't a bad thing, but it would have been mostly guest roles on Night Gallery, Love Boat, Mork's adopted mom, and then for the 80's she'd have to the obligatory appearance on Cheers. Can you imagine Marilyn Monroe doing a pilot for a sitcom around 1985 with the stupid laughtrack and it getting cancelled after 4 episodes? That would have been very sad and then she'd be right back as Alf's quirky lady friend a year or two later.

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[–] TMC-4 (19386) 5 years ago

I wonder why Kim doesn't try television at this point as a way of reviving her career so to speak? I mean, she really doesn't have anything else to lose at this point. I suspect that Kim in part sees television as beneath her. She was apparently, offered to replace Farrah Fawcett on Charlie's Angels back in the '70s (the role that ultimately went to Cheryl Ladd) but she turned it down because according to her, "she wanted to make movies and sing". Michael Keaton when his career was in doldrums (you can argue that his appearance in The Other Guys was really the beginning of his comeback) was offered a spot on Lost, but turned it down (he initially accepted but he was was led to believe that he would be killed off in the pilot episode).

I would also suspect that somebody Kim wouldn't be able to handle the pace (which is decidedly tighter than a feature film production) of a television schedule. Rene Russo admitted that's the main reason why she'll never do television:
https://www.thelist.com/107424/real-reason-dont-hear-rene-russo-anymore/

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[–] TexasJack (12515) 5 years ago

Maybe a Netflix or Amazon series? I don’t know if they operate more like a film schedule or a tv schedule.

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[–] ebhaynz (3525) 5 years ago

She can't do TV, her reputation is so bad. We all know "they talk" in Hollywood about who the difficult stars are. Not only that, "they talk" about what specific problems they have and every Hollywood producer knows Kim Basinger would severely disrupt a TV set. Bad moods, not showing up on time, threatening to quit, trying to rewrite the script. She's way too impossible of a person to do TV.

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[–] TMC-4 (19386) 5 years ago

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1991-01-30-9101090469-story.html

Kim, who has always come across to me as a small-town cheerleader gone breathlessly wrong, apparently is arranged emotionally along the lines of that bizarrely cut, self-designed, one-shouldered, spilled-hamper evening gown outfit she wore to the Oscars last year. Premiere said she was often as much as five hours late to the set, had a ''yelling fit'' almost every time they called ''action,'' dashed off after as little as two hours` work, had to have her hair redone after every take, chased super-celebrated playwright screenwriter Neil Simon from the set, banned nearly everyone else from the set, refused to put down the top of her convertible for a convertible-with-the-top-down scene, threw a screaming fit whenever anyone but Baldwin looked at her, called the producers something akin to war criminals for using non-biodegradable paper plates for crew snacks and generally helped drive up the film`s budget from $15 million to $23 million.

Apparently, according to Premiere, Baldwin spent a lot of time looking at her-at a lot of her: ''Crew members, listening in on the headphone intercom system while Basinger and Baldwin waited in a car between takes of their first scenes,'' the magazine reported, ''were startled to hear Basinger describing her plans for the night`s romantic activitiesin what they say was astonishingly unrepeatable detail. Within a few weeks, Baldwin had moved into Basinger`s Woodland Hills home.''

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[–] TMC-4 (19386) 5 years ago

There's a blind item that alleges that Kim was essentially, fired from this little independent movie called At Middleton for, well I'll let them explain:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170514185311/http://crazydaysandnights.net/2015/01/blind-items-revealed-40-2.html

This former A list mostly movie actress who kind of fell off the planet when she and the A list mostly television actor got divorced more than a decade ago has had her chances to work. Really famous for one iconic movie, the actress recently got a chance to star in an independent movie with a small budget and a great script. The budget was tiny but our actress wanted two separate trailers and cakes, yes cakes, delivered three times a day each day of shooting and had specific dimensions and flavors for each cake. Yeah, the producers passed and ended up landing two Academy Award winners/nominees for the lead roles.

Kim Basinger/Vera Farmiga/Andy Garcia

https://www.quora.com/What-do-you-make-of-an-actor-who-wants-two-separate-trailers-What-if-the-actor-also-wanted-cakes-delivered-three-times-a-day-for-each-day-of-shooting-and-had-specific-dimensions-and-flavors-for-each-cake

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[–] TMC-4 (19386) 5 years ago

Some anedotes that I've come across regarding those who have worked with Ms. Basinger:
http://www.gossiprocks.com/forum/hot-women/kim-basinger-actress-page3-12633.html#post638939

Quote Originally Posted by A*O View Post

She is also a complete bitch according to a friend of mine who works as a voice-over agent in Hollywood. She had a friend in the biz who unfortunately had to work on a movie with this extremely disturbed woman. She was impossible to work with and everyone was extremely relieved when filming was over.

http://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2012/12/my-kim-bassinger-metaphor.html?showComment=1355374183493#c30690768047566501

Anonymous said...
Kim Basinger is by far one of the worst people (not just actors, crew too) that I have ever had the unfortunate luck to work with. What a miserable person. She's almost rates as the biggest number one *beep* actor with the exception that it just so happens that Bruce Willis edges her out by a nose.
12/12/2012 8:49 PM

http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board2//viewtopic.php?f=8&t=34258&start=15#p453003

Heard the funniest story about Kim Basinger from somebody who worked on LA Confidential. Apparently she has something congenitially wrong with her thumbs. They're either too long or too short or something. Anyway this guy (and others, maybe the whole crew) were told that when she walked in set that whatever you do, do NOT look at her thumbs or there'd be hell to pay. Which of course made everybody want desperately to look at her freaking thumbs. There was more to it but now I can't remember, anyway it was funny as hell and apparently from that and other things this guy said, she is indeed insanely neurotic.

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[–] TMC-4 (19386) 5 years ago

Reading this stuff about the actress Nicole Beharie, I can't help but immediately think about Kim Basinger and how her own apparent mental issue issues/struggles have rendered her too much of a liability in Hollywood:
https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/what-happened-to-this-beautiful-black-actress-nicole-beharie.1479106/

https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/any-tea-on-nicole-beharie.411775/

https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/what-happened-to-nicole-beharies-career.1259835/

https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/what-happened-to-nicole-beharies-career.1259835/page-2#post-32495835

Having anxieties and being awkward doesn't make you difficult or a bad person. It is what it is. In this business there's a game you play and part of that is promoting the work you're a part of. If you have anxieties (think, Kim Basinger) that will interfere with that. because you have to make public appearances and do interviews, etc. But like someone said earlier in the thread, whites get a pass when they suffer from things like this, everyone else gets labeled difficult. What can you do but keep on truckin'

https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/recent-pics-of-nicole-beharie.1866740/page-2

https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/nicole-beharie-blackballed.1151469/

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[–] TMC-4 (19386) 4 years ago

Several years back, this journalist named Deanna Smith-Fagin posted online some interesting tidbits about her encounter with Kim Basinger during at least the earliest portions of her career:
https://lebeauleblog.com/2012/02/05/what-the-hell-happened-to-kim-basinger/

Deanna Smith-Fagin(September 26, 2016 - 7:30 pm)
I met and tired to interview Kim Basinger when she was in “Hard Country,” one of her early films. She wad married to a fellow in Atlanta but having an affair with Jan Michael Vincent. Both she and Vincent were so drunk they could barely speak. Kim did not look glamorous when I met her. She looked pale and anorexic, basically straight up and down with very thin arms, and a black alley down the middle of her blond hair. A number of years later,I sat near her and her girlfriend, who was even more anorexic than Kim, at Jerry’s Deli, and I could hear her talking about Alec Baldwin and saying he is not going to get away with his antics, etc., etc., etc.

Deanna Smith-Fagin(September 27, 2016 - 8:41 pm)
I truly don’t know if Kim had/or has an eating disorder. I do know she had some emotional problems that effected her work. Too, if the people look “skinny” in photos or on TV, they are much “skinnier” in real life. The camera adds weight.

Deanna(July 11, 2017 - 2:57 pm)
I went to the cast part of “Hard Country” at Wool Growers. I was a TV reporter and had a date with Micheal Kane the writer of the movie. I didn’t see ol’ Kim as glamorous. She was married to a guy in Atlanta at the time. She looked anorexic, absolutely zero figure, pale with dark circles under her eyes and a big dark alley down her blond hair.She was having an affair with Jan Michael Vincent, and both were drunk out of their minds. She was disgusting!

Deanna(July 11, 2017 - 9:49 pm)
When I met Kim, I thought this woman must have a fantastic make up man and a really super Wonder Bra. Plus, she was anything but a lady. Hollywood can really create miracles.

https://www.facebook.com/deanna.smithfagin

https://twitter.com/Kappaangel

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[–] ebhaynz (3525) 4 years ago

Kim certainly can pick the right men can't she? If she's not screwing producers to get what she wants she dates some of the wildest/worst behaved men in Hollywood. Jan Michael Vincent was one of the hardest drinking/pill popping stars ever, the stories about his boozing and bad behavior are legendary! In the end, he was so bad off physically I don't think he had any legs and ended up going from being a very fit, handsome, surfer dude in Big Wednesday to a shriveled up "where are they now?" has-been, who would sign autographs just to keep the lights on.
Then, Kim lured Alec Baldwin into her devilish lair..they can't stand each other now, burning their bridges over decades of fighting..so much so they got their daughter involved in their hatred for one another. What they needed to do was apply Sun Tzu's 'Art of War'..I know when I was young I got caught up with a beautiful lady, almost immediately our torrent affair went sour, she turned out to be a really nasty piece of work..however, as crushed as I was I slowly backed off from the wildebeast, I didn't fall into her trap of hatred..I made it look like I still liked her and hid the fact I knew I was way better off not being within 20 miles of her..this made everything end a lot more smoothly, enough so she would call me every couple of years for awhile lol.
Good ole' Sun Tzu was a genius! of course, neither Alec or our dear Kim ever applied Mr. Tzu's tactics, they just let each other feed on their souls..funny, I bet at least one of them was prob. in a movie about Sun Tzu, still they obviously learned zero point zero. Sleep your way to the top then show all the ugliness inside..wow Kim, you are talented!

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[–] bozo_500 (12120) 4 years ago

JMV died not too long ago but seem to remember it came out he been dead a while, like a few months before it came out . and then it was like announced in such a way like 'oh yeh that crazy old drunk Jan Michael everyone figured was dead anyway died a while back living in a shack with no legs and shit'

What a shitty end for Stringfellow Hawke 😢

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[–] TMC-4 (19386) 4 years ago

It isn't an understatement to simply say that Jan Michael Vincent ruined his career with drugs, booze and being hard to work with on projects.

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[–] TMC-4 (19386) 4 years ago

Another Kim Basinger story that I would like to pass upon:
https://www.quora.com/Why-don%E2%80%99t-some-actors-allegedly-like-Mike-Myers-Tobey-Maguire-and-Kim-Basinger-like-it-when-crew-members-look-at-them-in-the-eye/answer/Le-Th-1

I’ve only seen and met Kim Basinger once, also back in the mid-late 90s. Again, I was traveling from JFK to LAX. She got on the plane a few minutes after I did. I was stowing my bags in the overhead bin when she and her husband at the time came on (Alec Baldwin). She was holding their first daughter who was around a year old. They were sitting in the last row of seats and I was sitting a few rows away in the second row, so I didn’t interact with them very much. I do remember they were all aglow and smitten with their little girl, and appeared to be proud and smiling parents. I also remember that as they were leaving the plane, mom told her baby girl to “blow kisses to all your adoring fans” and the little girl turned at the waist back to face everyone sitting on our side of the plane, and blew us a rather dramatic kiss. It was rather funny and some seemed to think it was adorable. I was in my mid-20s, so I had no interest in children at the time. Many people might say that a mother who teaches their child to behave in that manner, while attributing her own experience to her little one, probably sees her child as an extension of herself. Clearly, the child had no fans, but her mother certainly did. Since that was my one and only encounter with her, it wasn’t long enough to say if she is or is not a narcissist. She seemed pleasant enough, at the time, as did her toddler and husband. I haven’t thought about that “little-starlet-in-training” since that day until now. A quick google search reveals, she has grown up to struggle with body issues, emotional trauma, stress and anxiety, and had to check herself into a facility for help (a wise thing to do at 19).

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[–] TMC-4 (19386) 4 years ago

Well based on how Kim acted while presenting the Best Dance Video award at the 1990 MTV Video Music Awards, it's easy to believe that she likes to get pretty inebriated herself:
https://www.kapwing.com/videos/5e3a97798bbe1c0016bcdaa2

https://www.kapwing.com/videos/5e3a97a5eb7c940016e2e2fe

https://www.kapwing.com/videos/5e3a97db0aad18001639ff0e

For added context:

https://www.datalounge.com/thread/18595934-weird-awards-show-moments

I think it was the 1990 MTV Awards. Kim Basinger presented one of the last awards of the night and was really wasted. She was Anna Nicole level whacked confused looking squinty-eyed having trouble with getting her words out.

—Anonymous
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[–] TMC-4 (19386) 5 years ago

Now that I think of it, Joe DiMaggio might as well have been the Alec Baldwin to Kim Basinger's Marilyn Monroe. Just like with Alec and Kim, there were also rumors that Joe was physically abusive towards Marilyn:
https://www.quora.com/What-went-wrong-in-the-Marilyn-Monroe-Joe-Do-Maggio-marriage

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-2731145/The-bore-destroyed-Marilyn-Dimwit-Joe-DiMaggio-brutally-bullied-Monroe-drove-drugs-wrecked-career.html

https://www.nationalenquirer.com/photos/marilyn-monroe-joe-dimaggio-abuse-wifebeating/

https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2010/11/marilyn-monroe-201011

https://nypost.com/2014/06/08/inside-the-twisted-love-affair-of-joe-dimaggio-marilyn-monroe/

http://www.everlasting-star.net/boards/?showtopic=10005

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[–] ebhaynz (3525) 5 years ago

There are similarities but Joe and Marilyn still loved each other after their divorce, they just couldn't be together. Joe would go to great lengths to help Marilyn whenever she called, which was often because she was a train wreck.

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[–] TMC-4 (19386) 4 years ago

Looking at this interview with Kim, I wonder again if she's at the very least, on the autism spectrum:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ge0eugQ0sY

I noticed that Kim immediately starts clasping and rubbing her hands together. The point is that doing that maybe a form of stimming or self-stimulatory behavior.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stimming

https://www.healthline.com/health/autism/stimming

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[–] MickyMac (2934) 5 years ago

Squeezed out by younger talent.

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[–] TMC-4 (19386) 5 years ago

I've noticed that Kim hasn't posted anything relating to Batman's 30th anniversary on Instagram (yes, Kim Basinger now has an Instagram account). So if it doesn't have anything to do with how horrible us humans treat animals, then she won't post it:
https://www.instagram.com/kim.basinger/?hl=en

https://twitter.com/kimbasinger

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[–] TMC-4 (19386) 5 years ago

On second thought:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BzI5Y1hhjDO/

kim.basinger
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My time as Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz… 30 years ago.. i can’t believe it..
I knew this wasn’t just a movie the minute I walked into the city of Gotham.. it was an adventure.. and one I would never forget!
Thank you #timburton 🙌🏼🙏❤️ Good times:) @jack_nicholson_official @michaelkeatondouglas #BTS #ONSET

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[–] TMC-4 (19386) 4 years ago

I'm somewhat "heads or tails" regarding Kim Basigner on Instagram. Just like on her Twitter account, it's more or less, an excuse to be a Debby Downer about how important it is to help the animals. Hell, Kim only bothers using it sparingly and she seems reluctant to post present day photos of herself. I'm not saying that Kim shouldn't use social media as a way of supporting or addressing noble causes or causes that are personally important to her, but with her frequent animal rights tangents (that when you get right down to it, leave no room for interpretation or nuance), she if you ask me, really borders on fanaticism.

I wish that she wouldn't take her self so damn seriously all of the time. Like why can't Kim at least also post about one of her movies? It seems based on her Instagram, like Batman is the only work of hers that she's truly proud of or is willing to openly talk about.

Part of the time, it appears that her account is managed by someone on her payroll:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BzOJ46ehDN9/

https://www.instagram.com/p/B6TAi4ph5bR/

Also, Kim can be kind of cryptic and vague with her posts. Like for example once posted this photo of her daughter with out any sort of context to it:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B0cdWxNBvcd/

Or this:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B7z6iSrBn0u/

I know that Kim was referring to the tragedy involving Kobe Bryant's helicopter crash, but again Kim doesn't directly address it, instead using some platitude about how we shouldn't take life for granted. When she left the initials "KB" I wasn't sure if she was referring to "KB" as in Kobe Bryant or "KB" as in Kim Basinger.

On the flip side, here's what Michael Keaton, Michelle Pfeiffer, Billy Dee Williams and Val Kilmer said on their respective Instagram accounts:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B7y9lLyl0Gv/

https://www.instagram.com/p/B7zOmzbJvuf/

https://www.instagram.com/p/B7z9nI5gla-/

https://www.instagram.com/p/B7zKUExhUfr/

And now, she posted this photo of Eric and Donald Trump Jr.:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B8FE8EIh4N2/

I at first assumed that "Beach Boys" was Kim's derogatory name for the the Trumps, not knowing that it was literally about the actual band the Beach Boys.

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[–] TMC-4 (19386) 4 years ago

Kim Basinger in general, strikes me as one of those celebrity animal rights types (see also, Doris Day, Pamela Anderson, and Brigitte Bardot) whose compassion for animals is completely over-the-top, while their compassion towards humans is non-existent or tepid at best. Kim just recently told Kevin Nealon that she would get naked for a role again if it meant helping an animal in some kind.

People like that who you can say are very fanatical about animal rights you can argue, tend to be people who are unable to really understand another person very well. It could be a sign or a symptom of narcissism (in that they essentially view those around them like their husbands like an accessory or something like that) or merely autism.

I find it interesting that Kim has taken the time to post a video on her Instagram of a woman abusing a little dog (not that there's any justification in that what so ever and it's not reprehensible on its own) yet won't say anything about the current global pandemic, which revolves around actual human suffering.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B-x7VSTBXuy/

Kim also reiterated her stance while talking to Kevin Nealon that South Korea is the only country in the world that raises dogs for consumption even though this aforementioned global pandemic, started in a wet market in Wuhan, China.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-dog-meat-trade-ban-cats-coronavirus-wuhan-wet-market-wildlife-a9457426.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7-P3-SkiJA&t=50s

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[–] Galactus03 (4287) 5 years ago

No actor A.list or otherwise stays on top forever....I don't know why people think there needs to be a reason beyond they are getting up in years...

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[–] TMC-4 (19386) 5 years ago

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-like-Kim-Basinger-get-into-acting-in-the-first-place-if-they-prefer-to-stay-out-of-the-spotlight-Why-cant-they-get-a-job-that-doesnt-require-them-to-become-famous/answer/Jon-Mixon-1

1. For reasons that she’s never adequately explained, Basinger invested as much as $20 million USD in the purchase of a small Georgia town - This turned into a financial boondoggle for her and she eventually lost the majority of her investment. Given that she did this in the era BEFORE $20 million USD salaries were commonplace for Hollywood A-list performers, this represented a substantial financial setback from which she may still be recovering.

2. Basinger foolishly agreed to a role in a film entitled Boxing Helena - For reasons never adequately explained, she decided to back out of the role, thinking she could do so because she hadn’t signed a written agreement. Unfortunately for Basinger, she failed to realize that the substantial amount of time that she spent discussing the role, and the effort that was put in could be construed as a verbal contract. A lawsuit was filed, a jury found her in default of the contract, and in what was another foolish decision, Basinger elected not make the film and was forced to pay a settlement and legal fees. The film was made anyway and it was a disaster. However, had Basinger simply done the film, or carefully consulted with her legal advisers, she could have avoided a series of poor decisions that cost her millions, forced her to declare bankruptcy, and seriously damaged her career.

3. Basinger appears to have suffered one or more issues that caused her a great deal of anxiety. - Whether or not they were mental breakdowns or the beginnings of longterm mental health issues aren’t exactly clear. What happened however, is at a time when her poor decisions were costing her millions of dollars, Basinger was avoiding the acting roles that she needed to earn that money.

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[–] TMC-4 (19386) 5 years ago

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-like-Kim-Basinger-get-into-acting-in-the-first-place-if-they-prefer-to-stay-out-of-the-spotlight-Why-cant-they-get-a-job-that-doesnt-require-them-to-become-famous/answer/Jon-Mixon-1

Speculation (As Kim Basinger has yet to write her memoirs and she rarely gives interviews any longer since her fame has faded): At some point in her youth, Basinger wanted to be famous, so she did the numerous things that people do to get famous, and she fortunately succeeded where most do not.

Kim Basinger began her climb up the entertainment ladder in the 1970s. It wasn’t until the latter part of the 1980s when she began to receive more prominent roles in Hollywood. As her roles began to get better, she met and married actor Alec Baldwin and began a family. At or around that time, several things occurred that seem to have resulted in Basinger changing her mind about starring in Hollywood projects:

Kim Basinger has maintained a relatively low profile in the last 20 years. She’s had minor roles in films (with her turn as Marshall Mathers’ mother in the biopic 8 Mile looking to have been a potential career turnaround. It wasn’t); however she hasn’t been on the A-list since the mid-1990s. She did win the Academy Award for her role in the Neo-noir film LA Confidential; however, she didn’t follow that up with anything strong and now is largely a footnote in Hollywood history.

There doesn’t seem to be any truth in the statement that initially Basinger didn’t want to be famous. She simply seems to have coped with fame poorly, she seems to have have made some disastrous financial decisions; and she seems to have suffered from some emotional or mental issues which robbed of her of her ability to perform successfully in Hollywood.

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[–] ebhaynz (3525) 5 years ago

I think this last paragraph sums everything up quite nicely. It seems Kim Basinger was used to getting her way with everything she did, torturing people who didn't obey her every command. Thus, she built up an enormous "Karma Debt" and she had to pay it back by 1. Picking an equally destructive partner in Alec Baldwin. 2. Severe financial problems(bankruptcy) even though she should have had it on easy street the rest of her life. and 3. The devastating emotional crash because how could she accept any perceived slight let alone the business she chose(Hollywood) turning it's back on her.
Karma Debt; Kim Basinger is still paying it back because that's how deep a hole she dug for herself. I would advise anyone who will listen to stay away from her at all costs.

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[–] TMC-4 (19386) 5 years ago

Sophie Hayden, who is an actress, once worked with Linda Lavin on an off-Broadway play (The Diary of Anne Frank), and she was apparently an absolute nightmare to work with. And this is coming from someone who also had to work with Kim Basigner (they appeared together in I Dreamed of Africa).

http://www.sophiehayden.com/

https://variety.com/1997/legit/reviews/the-diary-of-anne-frank-3-1200451922/

The source of that little tidbit:

https://lebeauleblog.com/2016/10/15/october-15-happy-birthday-linda-lavin-and-penny-marshall/#-15421

I have a friend who’s an actress who worked with Linda Lavin off broadway, and she said Linda Lavin was just the fucking worst, a total bitch and an absolute nightmare to work with- and that’s coming from someone who worked with Kim Basinger. I’ve never met the lady so I couldn’t swear it’s gospel, but Sophie’s worked with a lot of people- Robert Sean Leonard, Jerry Orbach-Natalie Portman, Edward Albee- and I’ve never really heard her say anything bad about anyone. Except Linda Lavin.

Also by way of Reddit in regards to people who apparently witnessed celebrities acting like jerks:
https://lebeauleblog.com/2012/02/05/what-the-hell-happened-to-kim-basinger/comment-page-2/#comment-260660

very_large_ears 1 point 3 years ago

Kim Basinger.

A buddy of mine was an extra in "the Natural" and during time when filming wasn't going on, he pulled out a pocket camera and prepared to take her photo. She raised her voice at him and held her hand over her face and said "Don't take my picture. Don't do it."

Shawn took her picture anyway. So she had a security guard come over and confiscate his film and threaten to remove him from the set.

https://lebeauleblog.com/2012/02/05/what-the-hell-happened-to-kim-basinger/comment-page-2/#comment-260745

t-rexmakingabed 1 point years ago

Worked on a Kim Basinger movie and she insisted tents with walls be put up and anytime she would go to set the crew would have to go stand inside them so she wouldn't have to look at us.

http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19920214&slug=1475719

INACCURACY IN THE MEDIA: Really, Penthouse magazine should make some effort to prevent its writers from making scurrilous, ill-founded statements. For instance, Jonathan van Meter recently interviewed Kim Basinger for those dignified pages, then turned around and told a reporter that Basinger "is the most self-indulgent, dumb, most irritating person I've ever met. She's dumb as a shoe." Whereas her SAT scores prove conclusively that she's only as dumb as a garter belt.

https://books.google.com/books?id=_66gMFl2IjAC&pg=PT38&dq=dumbest+things+basinger&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjGofiXsYHlAhXDLH0KHXNXBPUQ6AEwAHoECAMQAg#v=onepage&q=dumbest%20things%20basinger&f=false

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[–] ebhaynz (3525) 5 years ago

It's so weird she hooked up with Prince and basically became his sex slave..that explicit music CD they produced together never got released did it? Back to Prince, he was such a short, tiny man. But then again, they say he ALWAYS wore super stylish clothes even when he was just hanging out..kind of something a shallow, superficial gal like Kim Basinger would get into. Plus, women throw themselves at pop and rock stars whether they're good looking or not. I sense there's a lot of self loathing going on in her head, especially with the fact that she basically threw more opportunities out the window than almost any other actress that's ever lived. Still, she probably has ended up with a lot of money in the bank probably a lot of it from Alec.

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[–] TMC-4 (19386) 4 years ago

Not that this necessarily reflects upon Kim Basinger's relationship with Prince per se, but none the less, here's some interesting insight about Prince and his private world and psychology:

https://forum.earwolf.com/topic/66902-musical-mondays-week-86-purple-rain/?do=findComment&comment=310730

From what I've read, he would drop women in his life pretty easily which is kind of what happened to Vanity. I don't know if he was dumping women in dumpsters irl, but he definitely comes across as misogynist. He was also pretty openly homophobic until he died. I don't think I've read or heard a single Prince story about him being "normal" or stable. He's always portrayed as a weird, temperamental recluse. Maybe he's super loyal to his closest friends but that seems like it was, at most, a very tiny circle.

And people do turn a blind eye to it or even celebrate it because, well, he was one hell of a performer.

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[–] TMC-4 (19386) 5 years ago

I suspect that Kim was sort of like Demi Moore in the sense that she had little to no real respect in the industry. She like Demi, was in effect, seen as "white trash" (Kim was from the deep south afterall) or a "cheap, trashy whore who got lucky".

https://www.datalounge.com/thread/24665929-demi-moore-has-a-new-memoir-%E2%80%9Cinside-out%E2%80%9D-coming-out-

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[–] ebhaynz (3525) 5 years ago

Could be, but I have a feeling Basinger simply just earned the disrespect she got in Hollywood. I wonder if she's kinda normal now and just walks around her Hollywood home and laughs while saying: "I earned all this from sitting on movie sets for endless days and nights and years". I could respect that as I'm sure Hollywood made a lot of money off of her as well.

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[–] TMC-4 (19386) 5 years ago

Kim Basinger is unfortunately, now one of those celebrities who was extremely popular in their time but has no lasting cultural relevancy:
https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/name-someone-that-was-extremely-popular-in-their-time-but-have-no-lasting-cultural-relevancy.2874790/

https://www.datalounge.com/thread/24835690-name-an-actor-entertainer-that-was-extremely-popular-in-their-time-but-have-no-lasting-cultural-relevancy

I mean, Kim is an Academy Award winner, she was a Bond Girl (she has the distinction of being Sean Connery's last Bond Girl if you count Never Say Never Again as part of his canon), she was the female lead in one of the biggest blockbusters of the '80s as well as the movie that was one of (along with Richard Donner's Superman film with Christopher Reeve) godfathers of the big budget superhero movie genre, and a renowned international sex symbol (like I said, during her heyday, Kim Basinger was arguably the closest heir apparent to Marilyn Monroe). But know, Kim Basinger is mostly known for being married to Alec Baldwin and her financial hiccups like running a small Georgia town into bankruptcy and getting sued out of backing out of Boxing Helena.

I was looking at Kim's Twitter profile, and she only has just under 12 thousand followers:
https://twitter.com/kimbasinger

To give you a better idea why that's pathetic:

https://www.nickiswift.com/38926/hollywood-wont-cast-rachael-leigh-cook-anymore/

Even without the power of a Hollywood PR machine behind her, if she wanted to, Cook could probably relaunch her career single-handedly simply by leveraging the nostalgia of her now-adult fans into a social media Renaissance. However, Cook clearly isn't all that interested in building her brand or maintaining a celebrity-grade presence online.

A peek at her Twitter account reveals she has a mere 100,000 followers, which is downright shocking. As a point of comparison, fellow '90s "It Girl" Jennifer Love Hewitt—whose career has been as troubled as Cook's—boasts close to a million followers on Twitter.

Even when Cook has content that's perfectly poised to go viral—like this squee-worthy reunion with her fellow Babysitters Club cast members in 2015—it just doesn't get that much attention. Most of the time, Cook uses her social media just like a regular person: for vacation pics, activism, and pie-related boasts.

https://www.nickiswift.com/42261/hollywood-wont-cast-larisa-oleynik-anymore/

It's easy for celebs to keep their fans invested through social media, but Oleynik has not nurtured a strong following online. She doesn't have a public Facebook, and though she does have a Twitter account, at the time of this writing, it had not been updated in nearly eight months. Her Instagram showing was also weak.

In comparison, fellow '90s stars such as Jodie Sweetin of Full House and Danielle Fishel of Boy Meets World have capitalized on '90s nostalgia while also introducing themselves to new fans and promoting new projects through social media. Oleynik could follow suit to bolster her fan base and stoke interest among industry insiders.

https://www.nickiswift.com/47382/hollywood-wont-cast-renee-zellweger-anymore/

In this day and age, any star looking to make a comeback would do well to have at least one social media platform to drive a little bit of fan engagement and retain control over her celebrity brand — so that if, for instance, some mean people on the internet start making snarky speculations about your physical appearance, you can lay the smack down right then and there. But Renée Zellweger keeps a super-low profile online and manages her image the old-fashioned way, through strategic alliances with the mainstream media. Which is fine, if it's what she's comfortable with, but it's still a missed opportunity to make herself more visible to the folks who could help her make a real comeback.

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[–] ebhaynz (3525) 4 years ago

Contrast Kim Basinger with male superstars like Jack Nicholson and Tom Cruise. What did these guys do to be so successful? Well, for one they SUPPORTED their directors, working hard and being a team player to make the movie as good as possible. I'm sure Tom and Jack had their moments but nothing like the wailing banshee Kim Basinger would become if someone on the crew dared look at her. Basinger starred in approx 5-6 movies than made money, the rest were either lackluster or simply bombs.
Nicholson and Cruise have had 20 or 30 hit movies each over 4 or 5 decades.
Jack virulently defended director George Miller, who came to the U.S. to direct Witches of Eastwick after helming the huge Mad Max films. The studio was picking on George because he was a newbie to the Hollywood studio, not giving him any slack and Jack stuck with George and made the movie a decent hit.
Tom Cruise, for all his Scientology distractions, prefers to be called "Tom" on the set and gets along with cast AND crew.
How many times have you heard that Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson were difficult to work with? Probably zero. Kim Basinger? an IMPOSSIBLE human being.

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[–] TMC-4 (19386) 4 years ago

Come to think about it, I seriously wonder if Kim got along with Jack Nicholson when they made Batman? I recall reading this story about a pissed off Nicholson allegedly putting Kim on blast about her affair with Jon Peters. Apparently, Nicholson was mad at Jon Peters for not footing the bill for the crew's Batman jackets.

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[–] ebhaynz (3525) 4 years ago

Jack is the A-list Alpha Male on set, no other actor/actress would dare mess with him..not even Kim Batshitcrazyinger.

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[–] TMC-4 (19386) 4 years ago

Reading these comments from Kim makes me want to scream "OK boomer!!!"

http://www.sheknows.com/entertainment/articles/1031315/kim-basinger-selfies-are-scary

Kim Basinger has admitted that she worries about the future of young people because they appear to have become so self-absorbed, vain and unmotivated.

According to Page Six, the Grudge Match actress revealed her views on the younger generation, saying, "If you look at this generation of selfies and selfies and selfies, it seems a little bit scary. I like to see a driven kid, somebody who wants to come from the ground up... you just don't know what's going to happen to this generation."

https://www.net-a-porter.com/magazine/348/15

“Social media has changed everything. There was more mystery before, but now, people just show their butts all over the place. I’ve never been one to share much of my life. It’s a shame how out of hand this industry has become, and where the value system has gone.”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2689240/Kim-Basinger-defies-60-years-artsy-desert-shoot-calls-social-media-dangerous-teenagers-like-daughter-Ireland.html

Basinger has witnessed first-hand how 'dangerous' and 'troubling' social media can be for teenagers like her 18-year-old daughter Ireland.
She told the mag: 'The way [teens] communicate now and not having to go face-to-face. I just think there are quite a few negative things about it. It's just troubling. It's troubling, especially since I do have a teenager — I know what I'm talking about. But we'll see where it goes.'

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[–] ebhaynz (3525) 4 years ago

My god Kim Basinger is actually right about something for once. Actually, she's more than right in this case, social media is a mega-disaster, very similar to Boxing Helena.

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[–] TMC-4 (19386) 4 years ago

It's funny that Kim Basinger is chastising people for doing little more than "showing off their butts" on social media when her daughter has pretty much made a habit out of doing such a thing:
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/ireland-baldwin-sizzles-in-risque-braandunderwear-photo-222350232.html

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[–] TMC-4 (19386) 4 years ago

The crazy thing is that Kim from what I've gathered, even if her upbringing wasn't as dysfunctional as someone like Demi Moore's, still considers her upbringing miserable. I posted a long time ago, an interview that she did with Chris Wallace on ABC back in 1991:
https://youtu.be/ZnxUUdYn7h4

In it, Kim talks about how she would tell her mother that she couldn't wait unto the day that she could escape from "prison", meaning her small hometown in Georgia.

If anything, this interview is I suppose, a microcosm of sorts of why Kim's A-list career soon crashed and burned after Batman. For one thing, Hollywood rightly or wrongly, doesn't like it when women are too headstrong (especially women who can't put their money where their mouths are) or vocal about what they perceive to be the truth. Debra Winger, Sean Young, and Linda Fiorentino for example, also had that same problem. Kim unfortunately, I believe suffered from overestimating her own importance or appeal as a performer.

https://www.fame10.com/entertainment/over-the-top-demands-of-7-popular-90s-movie-stars/2/

Also, it's common sense that if you're in the show business industry, you don't go on national television or any other public media form and say quite bluntly that a major conglomerate and your employer like Disney is "cheap and they hire people that they can squish down and control". I'm not necessarily saying that you have to be an ass kisser and 100% agree with the company line, but you if you ask me, should be more diplomatic than that. I mean, why should I go through the trouble in hiring you if you're just going to afterwords, bite the proverbial hand that feeds you. It just makes Kim look aggressive, childish and dare I say rude.

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[–] TMC-4 (19386) 4 years ago

I want to say that Kim Basinger's "prime" (if you want to call it that) was from roughly 1983 (when she did Never Say Never Again, which is arguably her "breakout role") and 1994 (when she did The Getaway, which was the last movie that she did as a headlining star before she and Alec Baldwin had their kid), before she went on her three year hiatus.

People forget this now, but LA Confidential in 1997 was actually something of a comeback of sorts for Kim Basinger. She had come off a series of flops post-Batman and the embarrassment of losing the Boxing Helena trial and forcing to declare bankruptcy. Kim got the best reviews that she got in her career (before that, I don't think that most people generally considered Kim Basinger as someone who can actually "act") and she of course wound up winning the Best Supporting Actress Oscar.

But Kim made the foolish mistake of not releasing another movie for another three years (which is a lifetime in Hollywood). This helped kill her momentum flat. And when she reemerges it's in the form of her vanity project I Dreamed of Africa and that shitty horror movie Bless the Child. Both of those movies of course, bombed big time and that pretty much officially signaled the end of Kim Basinger as a bankable headlining star.

Her appearance in 8 Mile always struck me as Curtis Hanson throwing her another lifeline and bone after her two follow-up vehicles to LA Confidential tanked. I like to believe that if Kim didn't have so many emotional and domestic problems with Alec Baldwin around that same time (and wasn't so caught up raising her kid in the mist of all of), it would've been easier for her to get her career right back on track. And I don't think that Kim being an Oscar winner carries that much weight anymore. Otherwise, she wouldn't be "slumming it" in trash like Fifty Shades Darker.

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[–] TMC-4 (19386) 4 years ago

This discussion here is really about Cybill Shepherd, but I seriously wonder if it could also imply to Kim Basinger:

https://www.datalounge.com/thread/26077913-why-did-cybill-shepherd-s-career-go-straight-down-the-shitter-

She'd love to play the ageism and "because I'm a woman" card and there is some truth to that, but the real truth is that she's an ego-driven, narcissistic shrew who makes everyone around her miserable. Couple that with the fact that she only has what career she has based on her looks and, yeah, she's not going to be turning down offers left and right.

She's a cautionary tale to beautiful actresses to make sure they keep working on their acting skills, be kind to others, and don't ever rely on your beauty/sex appeal alone to get you in the door, because a day will come when that's gone or faded and, if you've been a bitch to everyone and aren't that much of an actress to begin with, you're not going to get much work.

Even a great actress like Faye Dunaway can't get work because she's an insane pain in the ass to deal with. She probably thought it was because she was aging and got all that awful work done to try and get roles. What she really needed was a new personality, not a new nose.

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[–] HAL9000 (935) 5 years ago

she butchered her face and according to the article turned into a no-man feminist. hollywood has already enough of them. so i dont really miss her.

if you want more elderly woman in movies write good stories for them.

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[–] bigbadwolf666 (4707) 5 years ago

She did some movies like banging emienem.

For all we know she was blackballed because she dumped Alec and probably rejected Weinstein.

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[–] bigbadwolf666 (4707) 4 years ago

Who didnt date Prince and I dont know why. He isnt attractive or talented for my taste. Must be the fame and money and he never had children hahahha.

All the famous whores behave that way. From models to actresses to B-listers too women on the streets. The strange thing is that I never found her that attractive. Like say Michelle Pfefier, Pamela Anderson, Carmen Electra... she didnt do enough good movies for my taste and her acting was completely wooden and like some have said she was old. Though beautiful I wouldnt have dealt with that shit either. With the millions and millions of attractive women in hollywood and ones with less issues.

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[–] TMC-4 (19386) 4 years ago

People I feel, just wrote Kim Basinger off as just some giggly blonde bimbo/beauty queen from a small southern town (especially after she started pulling a lot of crap behind the scenes), who somehow managed to finesse her way to an Oscar despite being on a technical level, arguably one of the least talented people to ever win an acting Oscar. What set Kim apart from the likes of Pamela Anderson and Carmen Electra (the Baywatch/video vixen/Playboy centerfold/blowup doll type) was her oversized, classic movie star looks and her on-screen ability to illicit great empathy for women.

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[–] TMC-4 (19386) 4 years ago

I suspect that Kim got blackballed due to the Boxing Helena fiasco. Without going into too much detail about that story because it would take a long time to tell, it pretty much scared studios and producers into hiring (her erratic behavior while making The Marrying Man certainly didn't help her reputation around Hollywood) her simply out of fear that she might walk off a project again. Kim even said in that ABC News interview with Chris Wallace, that she would've rather quit working on The Marrying Man. So that kind of gives up an idea of her "flight or fight" approach to film-making.

From my understanding, Kim walked off of Boxing Helena during the late stages of pre-production. She figured that since she never signed a written contract, then it was perfectly fine her to leave. The fact that Kim as I said previously, was never really a box office draw, didn't want to "play" the Hollywood game, and was known to be too unpredictable and moody on sets (always showing up late, trying to rewrite the scripts to suit her personal whims, demanding that nobody on set look at her, not wanting to rehearse, having people fired for not shooting her a preferable way, etc.) made it even more easy for Hollywood to not want to have anything to do with her.

Granted, Kim did win an Oscar several years after Boxing Helena, but I suspect that Kim continued to be difficult and demanding even after that. If anything, the Oscar likely emboldened her to behave a certain way even more so, since she now has some "artist credibility". The fact that she was sex symbol who was was already in her 40s (which is kind of a death sentence for attractive women in movies already) just made things worse.

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[–] bigbadwolf666 (4707) 4 years ago

But really, who takes word seriously. Ive tried to held up people based on their words calling the cops and they just laugh at you. You have no proof and good luck trying to prove that and getting a case assembled. Let alone celebs that actually lie for a living. If there was no contract they had no case and how did she cost 6.5 for not showing up they couldve saved that money by hiring someone else plus with they wouldve lost having to pay Basinger. Not adding her antics the run up the bill. I blame that on the stupid studio and the retarded movie industry for easily falling for it and trying to hire a dumb bimbo.

The movie industry is corrupt, Harvey Weinstein exhibit, and her erraticism isnt that off compared to the many stories out there and what is not told and what is hidden but taken for the necessary box office. Im sure Alec had something to do with it if you read all the other crap big timers have done like Clint, Cosby, Spacey, you’d think Alec would want the best for her after he got dumped? Or that the industry would support her over him who’s probably a bigger movie star and’s got his entire family in the movie industry?

She also wasnt the best of actresses and sleeping with co-stars like emeinem, routinely having to do some kind of sex or naked to make up for her lack of acting. Nowadays when actresses are cheap and disposable.

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[–] TMC-4 (19386) 4 years ago

I honestly don't know if Alec Baldwin is legitimately in any sort of position of power to get anybody "blackballed" so to speak much less his ex-wife. But this "blind item" regarding a woman whom he worked with on "30 Rock" (likely Katrina Bowden) is food for thought:
http://www.agcwebpages.com/BLINDITEMS/2017/DEC.html

ENTERTAINMENT LAWYER 12/20 **#8**

https://goo.gl/xFP3cv

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[–] TMC-4 (19386) 3 years ago

I could've sworn that there was a big rumor going around at the time that Kim had an affair with Eminem (who played her son) when they made 8 Mile.

http://rapdirt.com/grazer-denies-eminem-kim-basinger-romance/508/

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[–] jasonbourne (1027) 4 years ago

Come now. You can't believe these "Why Hollywood won't cast ___________ (fill in the blank) anymore" articles. The only thing I learned was that Kim posed in Playboy. Actually, that's as far as I got. She isn't as full on top as I thought. It seems there are other blonde voluptuous bods mistaken for her. Ms. Basinger has such beautiful face and lovely hair that I didn't notice.

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[–] TMC-4 (19386) 4 years ago

https://lebeauleblog.com/2019/12/16/kim-basinger-no-regrets/

Hollywood can be a tough place. Just ask Kim Basinger. In the early nineties, she went through a real rough patch that included toxic press, a multi-million dollar lawsuit and the public failure of a bad investment. On the upside, she married her costar, Alec Baldwin. Although in retrospect that didn’t turn out so well either. Here she is discussing her trials and tribulations in the cover story of the January 1994 issue of Movieline magazine.

The first time I interviewed Kim Basinger she’d had a blinding-hot relationship with her co-star Alec Baldwin during the troubled making of The Marrying Man, which served as fodder for the gossip columnists, and she’d put up money and garnered investors to buy a small town called Braselton in Georgia. What’s happened since is much more soap-operaish. Kim was approached by Jennifer Lynch, David’s daughter, with a project called Boxing Helena, about a woman abducted by a man who becomes so obsessed with her that he cuts off her arms and legs so that he alone can possess her. Kim expressed interest, but when she talked it over with her advisors, she began to have second thoughts. When she backed out, producer Carl Mazzocone and Main Line Pictures decided to sue her for breach of an oral contract. The jury found for the producer and said Basinger must pay $8.9 million, plus court fees. During this ordeal, one man has stuck by her: Alec Baldwin, her new husband and co-star in the upcoming The Getaway.

So, that’s where we stand today. But would Kim be as forthright as she had been during our earlier interview? I had my doubts, which were reinforced when she told me that she’d been thinking of canceling because she’d done only one magazine interview since her ordeal and she felt it was full of lies and distortions. “It’s no pleasure anymore to publicize a film or to celebrate a moment or to say anything to anybody.”

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[–] LiquidOcelot (2299) 4 years ago

The OP just sounds like a jealous obsessed loser. She's an Oscar winning actress so clearly she can act. You claim she had a forgettable career and yet you are meticulously obsessing over her. Pathetic.

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[–] TMC-4 (19386) 4 years ago

Then why won't Hollywood cast her anymore if she's an Oscar winning actress!? There's little reason why Kim Basinger can't get more acting jobs otherwise!

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[–] TMC-4 (19386) 4 years ago

Kim Basinger also won a Razzie for Fifty Shades Darker (granted, it would be difficult for anybody to act well for EL James' produced crap) after being nominated at least five times before, so sometimes she can't act!

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[–] TMC-4 (19386) 4 years ago

Saying that just because Kim Basinger is an Oscar winning actress automatically means that she doesn't have an otherwise forgettable career and for the most part, can actually act, is one of the ignorant and naive remarks that I've ever heard.

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[–] TMC-4 (19386) 4 years ago

Oh by the way LiquidOcelot, this particular article right here just about sets forth how even winning an Oscar doesn't really mean shit for an actor's career in the long run:
https://losangeleno.com/features/oscars-curse/

It’s the public consensus that the best actress and best supporting actress winners are most vulnerable to the career curse. On a list Insider published last year, eight of the 12 Oscar Curse examples were women, including Halle Berry — who followed up her historic best actress win with “X-2: X-Men United” and “Catwoman” — and Kim Basinger — who hasn’t been nominated for a major award since her win for “L.A. Confidential” in 1998.

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