Alec Baldwin's upcoming memoir will leave no stone unturned and span everything from Donald Trump, that rough patch with the press and his affection for Tina Fey.
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In Nevertheless, the actor writes about the time he first met Fey on the set of Saturday Night Live, when she was the head writer and he was hosting one of the weekly shows - something he has done regularly since 1990.
"When I first met Tina Fey - beautiful and brunette, smart and funny, by turns smug and diffident and completely uninterested in me or anything I had to say - I had the same reaction that I'm sure many men and women have: I fell in love," the 58-year-old actor writes.
It was there "Jack" attempted to pursue his "Lemon".
"I asked Marci Klein, who coordinated the talent, if Tina was single. She pointed to a man sitting along the wall. Or maybe he was standing? This was Jeff Richmond, Tina's husband. Jeff is diminutive. Tina describes him as 'travel-size.' When I saw him, I thought, What's she doing with him? With his spools of curly brown hair and oversize eyes, Jeff resembles a Margaret Keane painting," he writes.
Years later when he started working with both Fey and Richmond on 30 Rock, he changed his tune.
"When I ended up working with the two of them years later, on 30 Rock, of which Tina was writer, producer, and star, I changed that to 'What's he doing with her?' Jeff, who was the talented composer and music supervisor on 30 Rock, is as loose and outgoing as Tina is cautious and dry. 'Just remember one thing,' Lorne [Michaels] said. 'She's German'."
Despite discovering the grown-up world of dating is like a Liz Lemon haircut: "sometimes, awkward angles occur", other woman of note who captured his attention were Jennifer Aniston who was "a doll" and the late singer Whitney Houston.
"One year I hosted when Whitney Houston was the musical guest. After her dress rehearsal, I was introduced to her backstage. "'You truly are the most talented singer out there today,'" I said, a bit star-struck. She paused and said, 'I know, baby,' then walked on."
After discovering Fey was off the market, he talks of his affection for Will and Grace star Megan Mullally.
"I have always been madly in love with Megan Mullally. Some have compared her to Madeline Kahn, and although I hear some echoes, Megan is such an original in terms of her timing, her warmth, and her mixture of insanity and sexiness. Like Megan, Jane Krakowski went on to nail the self-absorbed, horny femme fatale on 30 Rock," he said.
"Scattered in between are a lot of talented female comics and actresses who are scoring in film and TV, of all ethnicities and ages, like Rosie Perez, Wanda Sykes, Sarah Silverman, and Tig Notaro. But with her high-pitched voice and loopy delivery, I've always found Megan irresistible."
Nevertheless also addresses one question fans of the sitcom have persistently asked:
"Our characters, Liz and Jack, never consummated their relationship. There was, in place of that, a genuine respect, fondness, and, ultimately, love for a trusted and irreplaceable colleague. For Jack, the only thing better than good sex was a good hire."
