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"Well, that&amp;apos;s that. Alec Baldwin is retiring from public life as an NYC-based celebrity. After many tumultuous years in the spotlight, the Emmy-winning actor, 55, declared just that in a cover story (a 5,000-word essay) for New York magazine.\r\nSlamming the likes of Anderson Cooper, Rachel Maddow, TMZ&amp;apos;s Harvey Levin and others, he says: &amp;quot;Now I loathe and despise the media in a way I did not think possible,&amp;quot; the 30 Rock star, who has had numerous scuffles with paparazzo and reporters over the years -- most recently with one NYC shutterbug who recorded him spouting what seemed to be homophobic epithets. &amp;quot;I used to engage with the media knowing that some of it would be adversarial, but now it&amp;#x2019;s superfluous at best and toxic at its worst.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nHe states: &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;m aware that it&amp;apos;s ironic that I&amp;apos;m making this case in the media&amp;#x2014;but this is the last time I&amp;apos;m going to talk about my personal life in an American publication ever again.&amp;quot;\r\nThe A-lister wrote of last year: &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;ve read where a number of people have felt that 2013 was a sh---y year. For me, it was actually a great year, because my wife and I had a baby.&amp;quot; Indeed, his new wife, yoga-instructor-turned-TV-correspondent Hilaria, gave birth to their daughter Carmen. &amp;quot;But, yeah, everything else was pretty awful. And I find myself bitter, defensive, and more misanthropic than I care to admit.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nThe star also dismisses accusations of homophobia. &amp;quot;Am I a homophobe? Look, I work in show business. I am awash in gay people, as colleagues and as friends. I&amp;apos;m doing Rock of Ages one day, making out with Russell Brand. Soon after that, I&amp;#x2019;m advocating with Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Cynthia Nixon for marriage equality. I&amp;apos;m officiating at a gay friend&amp;apos;s wedding. I&amp;apos;m not a homophobic person at all. But this is how the world now sees me.&amp;quot;\r\nAlso touching upon his canceled MSNBC show, his former political ambitions, and the bizarre antics of his former Orphans costar Shia LaBeouf (&amp;quot;there was truly a part of me that felt sorry for him&amp;quot;), he concludes:\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;I started out as an actor, where you seek to understand yourself using the words of great writers and collaborating with other creative people. Then I slid into show business, where you seek only an audience&amp;#x2019;s approval, whether you deserve it or not. I think I want to go back to being an actor now. There&amp;apos;s a way I could have done things differently. I know that. If I offended anyone along the way, I do apologize. But the solution for me now is: I&amp;apos;ve lived this for 30 years, I&amp;apos;m done with it.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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