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In between his SNL hosting gigs, SNL-themed sitcom gigs, and busily distancing himself from his troubled siblings, Alec Baldwin somehow still finds the time to be a movie star. On the set of his latest big screen venture, playing opposite Sarah Michelle Gellar in an adaptation of the hit chick lit novel The Girls' Guide to Hunting & Fishing, a feud has erupted between Baldwin and departing costume designer/scary clown-lady Patricia Field. NY Daily News JV Gossip Lloyd Grove reports:

Baldwin...vigorously defended himself in a phone call, and called Field "a fruit-salad head" and a "wack job, 24-7" among other choice epithets.

"When Pat left, virtually everybody on the film was relieved," Baldwin told me. "She is a cranky, miserably unhappy woman, and I'm actually one of the few people on the set that actually gave Pat a chance."

Baldwin said Field tried to dictate costume choices, unlike more prominent Hollywood designers he's worked with. "I did my job, which was to say 'yes,' 'no,' 'yes,' 'no.' I never had an argument with Pat."

It's easy to see how a misunderstanding like this can happen: Field, who famously guided Sex and the City's trendy fashion throughout its run, had every right as costume designer to expect to "dictate" Guide's wardrobe choices. In the delicate egosystem of a movie set, however, it's ultimately the film's star who will wield veto power, and if Baldwin felt the Stella McCartney striped miniskirt Field had set aside for him made his "thighs look horsey," then she would just have to go back to the rack and pick something else.