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Just days after he defended himself in a New York tabloid against a fruit-salad head wardrobe stylist, the worlds of fashion and Alec Baldwin collide yet again, with spectacular results. In a war horn-trumpeting headline that reignites their longstanding feud with the actor, today's Page Six taunts, "ALEC: TOO OLD AND TOO FAT." For what, you may ask? Playing disco-era fashion superstar Halston in a movie about his life:

[T]he barrel-chested actor has lost the role to younger, svelter Brendan Fraser. Baldwin was eager to play the flamboyant Studio 54 regular who dressed (and partied with) the likes of Liza Minnelli, Liz Taylor and Bianca Jagger before he died of AIDS in 1990. When we told Steven Gaines, whose 1991 biography, "Simply Halston," inspired the upcoming movie, that the producers reportedly replaced Baldwin because he's too old at 48, Gaines snickered, "Too old? What about too fat?"

It can't be easy for Baldwin to lose the role he has long dreamed of playing to George of the Jungle, but the versatile actor can take comfort in knowing there are plenty other plum, outsized personalities to pluck from the fashion world for biopic treatment. Through some creative accessorizing with sunglasses and hand fans, we think Baldwin would be stunningly effective playing the lead in Bravo's upcoming Karl Lagerfeld: The Fat Years.