Stephen Baldwin and his daughter at a movie theater in LA (7/20)
Stephen Baldwin is officially out of money. The "actor" (and I use that term in the
loosest sense imaginable) filed for bankruptcy yesterday in New York. From
Reuters:
The 43-year-old actor filed for Chapter 11 protection claiming he owes more than $2.3 million and owns a New York property valued at only $1.1 million. His wife, Kennya Baldwin, also is named in the document.
Baldwin owes about $1.2 million on two mortgages on the New York property and more than $1 million in taxes. He also has credit card debt, court papers showed.
The most shocking thing about this story isn't that Stephen filed for bankkruptcy, but that he owns a house worth $1.1 million. I mean,
WTF, when Stephen Baldwin can actually get a loan for a million dollar house, you know something is seriously fucked-up with the lending industry in this country.
Stephen Baldwin is not a Barack Obama fan
Remember in May when Susan Sarandon threatened a move to Canada if John McCain was elected? Remember how I said it'd be funny if a conservative celebrity said the same thing about Barack Obama -- like Clint Eastwood threatening a move to Iran? Well it actually happened. Kind of (it depends on your definition of the world "celebrity"). Appearing on Fox News' Laura Ingraham Show earlier this week, Z-lister Stephen Baldwin jokingly threatened to move if Obama is elected (1:30 mark).
What Baldwin didn't clarify is that the reason he's leaving the U.S. is because the next season of The Surreal Life is being filmed overseas. He's not actually on it. He's one of the on-set security guards. Overnight shift.
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Stephen Baldwin at Patricia's restaurant in New York (3/15)
Now that is some impressive cake eating. Your move Britney.
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It's the Battle of Religions '06 and Stephen Baldwin just fired a shot across Tom Cruise's bow:
Stephen Baldwin says he is praying for Tom Cruise’s soul. “On the Hollywood list of people I pray for often, Tom Cruise is probably No. 1,” the youngest of the Baldwin brothers told Radar Online. “I’d love to break bread with him and pray with him, and I’d love for the Holy Spirit of God to reveal the truth to him.”Baldwin also says that Cruise is a “very different guy” from the person he was when they worked together on Born on the Fourth of July. "That regular Joe quality seems to have been lost,” Says Baldwin. “When you buy enough of your own hype, then it’s not who you are anymore.” The born-again Baldwin has written a book about spirituality, “The Unusual Suspect: My Calling to the New Hardcore Movement of Faith,” but when asked by Radar Online to name the Ten Commandments after much fumbling came up with only six. He was totally stumped when asked to name the seven deadly sins.
If there's a crazier guy in Hollywood than Tom Cruise, it just may be Stephen Baldwin. We should lock the two of them in a room together just to see what happens. We'd probably open the door after a few hours and see a naked Tom Cruise on the floor chewing on Stephen's gall bladder while mumbling something about the Galactic Confederacy. Celebrity Duets gets green-lit but we can't make this Cruise v. Baldwin showdown happen? I'm slowing losing my faith in the magic that is Hollywood.
