So sad to see all our friends hanging out together, knowing it will be the last time.

Alec Baldwin's 17-year-old daughter Ireland has forgiven her father for leaving a now-infamous voicemail on her phone when she was 11 years old. The transcript of reads in part:

If his tirades against the paparazzi are any indication, Alec Baldwin is a person who values his privacy. Now he'll be even more removed from unwanted attention with his decision to quit Twitter.

"Hi! Wanted 2 tell u Alec & Hilaria getting married. 9p, BYOB, 4 Seas, Bev Hills, c u there don't tell papz," is maybe not such a far-fetched version of the actual wedding invitation Alec Baldwin and Hilaria will text to friends and family. According to The Post, the couple hopes to evade paparazzi by texting guests on the day of the wedding rather than sending out invitations.

Ostensibly there to promote the new Woody Allen film To Rome With Love, Alec Baldwin used an appearance on the Late Show With David Letterman tonight to tell his side of his recent scuffle with a paparazzo.

Alec Baldwin, a famous adult who has been famous for an estimated 44 percent of the time he's spent on this earth, is tired of the paparazzi who take photographs of him and, by extension, the "political opposition" inherent to the media that distort stories such as Alec Baldwin allegedly punching a member of the paparazzi who attempted to take a photo of him, and so Alec Baldwin hid under a blanket yesterday to avoid getting photographed by a member of the paparazzi.

We just received this tip from feminist writer/sex columnist Tristan Taormino, who was at Manhattan's City Hall this morning and spotted Alec Baldwin and fiancee Hilaria Thomas at the Clerk's office. What a town!:

Last night, 30 Rock aired its second live episode and it was both funny and ambitious. Mixed into the show's main plot was a string of sketches that charted the history of television and worked as an homage to live TV. The clip above features a few of those sketches, including great parodies of the Honeymooners, Amos and Andy, and Laugh In as well the work of guest star Jon Hamm.

Surely I'm not the only one who has jokingly replaced my surname with Alec Baldwin's — you know, just to see how it sounds. But Baldwin's stalker Genevieve Sabourin sent him "a series of annoying and unsolicited communications" that likely turned him off to any potential marriage, even though she went ahead and took his name.

The perpetually opining eldest Baldwin brother proposed to 28-year-old girlfriend, Hilaria Thomas just before his 54th birthday this weekend. Thomas is the sexxxy Spanish yoga instructor to Baldwin's rich, handsome, celebrity, because sometimes life happens exactly the way you think it will. The couple has yet to set a date but we wish them well.

We loathe a lot of people here at Gawker, mostly because we recognize that humanity is irreversibly doomed and the future holds nothing but Kim Kardashian dancing in six-inch stilettos on the graves of the poor. (Silver lining: Well-aerated grave grass.)

Thrown off a plane. Subject to a proposed boycott. And now this, a final humiliating insult to Alec Baldwin, for playing an iOS app when he shouldn't have: The Federal Aviation Administration says the actor's airline nemeses can use iPads in flight, even while prohibiting Baldwin from doing the same thing.

Alec Baldwin may not be running for office, but he may yet affect policy decisions, God help us. The comically volcanic actor is now explaining at length his ejection from an American Airlines flight, and throwing in his lot with the nerds trying to liberate gadgets from aviation regulations: He blames his removal, in part, on "questionable guidelines" governing devices like his iPhone.

Alec Baldwin was kicked off his American Airlines flight yesterday for playing an iPhone game, (or throwing a big baby temper tantrum, depending on who you ask). This had us wondering, which airlines are strictest about enforcing their dumb inflight electronics rules?

Reports from Twitter say that Alec Baldwin was kicked off an American Airlines flight to from LA just a few minutes ago. Details are sparse.

Daniel Craig ridicules Kourtney Kardashian's placenta. Kellan Lutz gives himself a "Hitler Youth" hairdo. Ali Lohan wonders whether Dina will let her get plastic surgery. Ashton Kutcher hangs out with a cow. Wednesday gossip is full of hate.

Alec Baldwin made good on his tweeted pledge to visit OWS. He spent a "too brief two hours" there. But it was well after six, and no tux? What is he, an organic Commie farmer? [@OpWallStreet]

Saturday Night Live opened its 37th season tonight with a parody of Thursday's Fox News/Google Republican presidential debate. Despite being too long and wrought with cliche—Newt Gingrich has a huge head! Michele Bachmann's eyes are crazy!—the sketch managed to work thanks to Bill Hader as debate moderator Shep Smith and Alec Baldwin as the same confused, babbling version of Rick Perry that showed up to the real thing. A video of highlights is above; the full sketch is viewable here.

The internet set on fire last night saying that Alec Baldwin skipped the Emmys because the producers at Fox cut a joke he told about the News of the World hacking scandal in a taped segment. The real reason is much more boring.

Actor Alec Baldwin was so incensed that Fox cut his joke about News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch from tonight's Emmy Awards coverage that he's not showing up for tonight's ceremony at all. Fox's editorial decision made his bit not-funny, Baldwin says.