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Alec Baldwin Gets Father's Day Visit
Alec Baldwin has a chance to have a happy Father's Day, but Kim Basinger is none too pleased about it.
Over Basinger's objections, a Los Angeles court on Thursday granted Baldwin three extra visitation days with daughter Ireland to make up for a weekend earlier this year when the 10-year-old had strep throat and couldn't make the trip to New York, where her dad lives. Ireland lives with her mom and attends school in Los Angeles.
Superior Court Commissioner Maren E. Nelson told Baldwin Thursday he could either have the weekend of Memorial Day or Father's Day to make up for lost time, according to the Los Angeles City News Service.
Basinger's lawyer, Neal Hersh, objected to any visits taking place after June 2, noting the couple's custody arrangement which states that all skipped visits must be made up within 60 days. "Actors have to live by the rules, too," he said.
Neither actor-parent was at the hearing, but Baldwin checked in from New York, where he's starring in the off-Broadway play Entertaining Mister Sloane, by telephone.
The Hunt for Red October star said he would be done with his theater engagement May 21 and begin work on a movie May 24. "I'm not bringing Ireland to be on a movie set," he said.
"[Basinger] fights him tooth and nail in every single thing because she wants him to not have the time," Baldwin's attorney, Vicki Greene, said in court. "She's not only not being reasonable, she's not even being nice about it."
Nelson ruled that both parents' busy schedules were at fault for the scheduling conflicts.
"Mr. Baldwin has a demanding professional career, and he has the desire to change the schedule when it is not consistent with his professional obligations," Nelson said. "Miss Basinger has a career and can at times be very inflexible in changing the schedule. The issue here is balancing that tension."
The couple, who cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for their divorce after seven years of marriage, have been battling it out over their little girl ever since.
Following the split, Basinger won custody, and Baldwin was awarded visitation rights, but in 2004, Baldwin sued his ex for custody after learning that an independent evaluator had recommended giving sole custody over to Basinger. A judge agreed that Baldwin should have equal parenting rights.
Last year, during a hearing to hammer out the details regarding Baldwin's phone privileges and makeup visitation rights with Ireland, the actor's attorney accused Basinger of trying to turn Ireland against her client. Baldwin then suggested his former mate consider psychological counseling to deal with her need to alienate him from their daughter's life.
Hersh then said that Baldwin had "severe emotional problems" and cited a few violent outbursts in the actor's past (he was acquitted of misdemeanor battery charges in 1996 after punching a photog who was trying to snap pictures of the couple and then-baby Ireland).
On the movie front, up next for Baldwin, 48, is the dramedy Running with Scissors based on author Augusten Burrough's memoir about his topsy-turvy childhood. Roles opposite Matt Damon in the Robert De Niro-directed The Good Shepherd and alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, Damon and Jack Nicholson in Martin Scorsese's The Departed, as well as the lead in The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing with Sarah Michelle Gellar, round out the year for him.
Basinger, 52, most recently played the president's wife in The Sentinel with Michael Douglas and will star in the TV-movie adaptation of The Mermaid Chair, premiering on Lifetime in September.
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