It isn't easy to follow the stories, not to mention the travel plans, of all the Hollywood luminaries who announced plans to leave the country in the event their candidate lost the presidency. As he did in 2000, despite countless warnings by Barbra Streisand, Cher, Julia Roberts and similar analysts that a George W. Bush presidency would bring a wave of repression as yet unmatched in our history. As Ms. Streisand explained it, "Our whole way of life is at stake."
Notwithstanding the new dark age to fall on us if Al Gore went down to defeat, Ms. Streisand and company issued no declarations about leaving the country--a wise move. At least one member of the House of Baldwin may have wished he'd done the same by the time he'd finished efforts to undo the messes issuing from just such a bulletin about his own plans in the event Mr. Bush became president.
That would be Alec Baldwin, actor and political activist, and husband (at the time) of Kim Basinger, who delivered the news in an interview with the German magazine Focus. On this occasion, shortly before the election, Ms. Basinger held forth on her husband's character and principles. "Alec is the biggest moralist that I know. He stands completely behind what he says." She could, further, well imagine Alec making good on his threat. "And then I'd probably have to go too
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