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PEOPLE & ARTS Saturday 3 March 2018
President Trump, Alec Baldwin renew Twitter feud

By MARK KENNEDY I can't." that year that Baldwin's
AP Entertainment Writer Wrote Trump on Friday: portrayal of him wasn't
NEW YORK (AP) — Presi- "Alec Baldwin, whose dy- funny. "The skits are terrible.
dent Donald Trump and ing mediocre career was I like Alec, but his imitation
Alec Baldwin — his chief saved by his terrible im- of me is really mean-spirit-
impersonator — traded personation of me on SNL, ed and not very good ... It's
online barbs Friday, each now says playing me was very biased and I don't like
describing the other as agony. Alec, it was agony it."
causing "agony," the latest for those who were forced Baldwin and Trump also ex-
salvos in an ongoing feud to watch." changed sharp tweets af-
between the commander In a final dig, the presi- ter the election when the
in chief and the actor. dent said Baldwin's per- president-elect called "Sat-
Trump, who has long grum- formance wasn't as good urday Night Live" a "totally
bled about the way he as comedian Darrell Ham- one-sided, biased show"
is portrayed by Baldwin mond, who portrayed and asked, "Equal time for
on "Saturday Night Live," Trump on "Saturday Night us?" Baldwin responded:
began the latest spat in Live" for years before Bald- "Election is over. There is no
a tweet sandwiched be- win took over in September more equal time."
tween his observations 2016. "Bring back Darrell In this Jan. 27, 2013 file photo, Alex Baldwin arrives at the 19th "Saturday Night Live" has
about world trade and Hammond, funnier and a Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in found higher ratings and
the opioid crisis. (In an ini- far greater talent!" Trump Los Angeles. Associated Press more cultural relevance
tial tweet that was later tweeted. since Trump ran for office,
deleted, he misspelled the Baldwin responded in a se- Twitter feed and "a little Live." He and Trump, who with skits that have also
actor's first name as "Alex," ries of tweets. black book w the phone appeared as a guest host lampooned Oval Office
prompting "Alex Baldwin" "Agony though it may be, numbers of porn stars." (He on "SNL" in November 2015, figures such as Sarah Huck-
to trend on Twitter.) I'd like to hang in there also misspelled Trump's have attacked each other abee Sanders, Jeff Ses-
The president seemed to for the impeachment Florida estate Mar-a-Lago on Twitter before. In 2016, sions, Sean Spicer, Steve
be reacting to an inter- hearings, the resignation as "Mara-A-Lago.") the then-president elect Bannon, Jared Kushner
view Baldwin gave to The speech, the farewell heli- Hammond did not immedi- called a skit that satirized and Ivanka Trump. Five
Hollywood Reporter that copter ride," he wrote. ately respond to a request Trump's tweets as "sad," days before his 2017 inau-
was published Thursday in Baldwin also tweeted that for comment. prompting Baldwin to re- guration, Trump tweeted
which the actor said he he was "Looking forward Baldwin, a Democratic ac- spond: "Release your tax about the show: "Not fun-
doesn't enjoy parodying to the Trump Presidential tivist, received an Emmy returns and I'll stop. Ha." ny, cast is terrible, always
Trump: "Every time I do it Library" and suggested Award for his parody last Trump also complained to a complete hit job. Really
now, it's like agony. Agony. that it would contain a live year on "Saturday Night Matt Lauer in an interview bad television!"q
Recording of jazz Katie Couric recounts facing

compositions by sexist attitudes, comments

Prince's father released By DAN SEWELL

Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A long-awaited recording of jazz CINCINNATI (AP) — Veter-
compositions written by Prince's father is now available. an TV journalist Katie Couric
John L. Nelson's album "Don't Play with Love — The John L. recounted Thursday facing
Nelson Project" was released Friday online and in record demeaning descriptions
stores. The album was produced by Prince's sister, Sharon and "gross comments" dur-
L. Nelson, and recorded at Paisley Park. ing her career.
John Nelson was a prolific jazz musician and inspiration to Couric spoke at consumer
Prince. He died in 2001. products maker Procter &
Sharon Nelson said she and her father had planned to Gamble's Cincinnati head-
release his music for years. She decided to complete the quarters in a forum on
recording after her brother's death in 2016. the state of women in the
The album features John Nelson's nephew, Louis Hayes, workplace. The #WeSee-
as well as Vincent Herring, Jeremy Pelt, Dezron Douglas, Equal forum took place
and Richard Germanson. amid a wave of sexual
The tracks were recorded in one take with little editing, misconduct claims against In this Jan. 11, 2018 file photo, Katie Couric poses in the press
capturing the subtle melodies of John Nelson's style.q prominent figures in enter- room at the 23rd annual Critics' Choice Awards in Santa
Monica, Calif.
tainment, politics and the Associated Press
media — including her for-
mer NBC "Today Show" co- lyn Tastad, president of critiques of her clothing
host, Matt Lauer. P&G's North America busi- when she began hosting
"I've been very fortunate ness group, in the forum's "CBS Evening News," and a
in terms of not being sub- keynote discussion. jarring moment early in her
jected to a lot of sexual Couric cited the frequent career when she walked
misconduct, but certainly descriptions of her as into a meeting at CNN and
I have been subjected to "cute" and "perky," which an executive said of her to
widely held attitudes about she found "marginaliz- others around the table:
women, about compart- ing." She joked that on her "She's successful because
mentalizing women," Cou- tombstone, it will say "Perky of her hard work, intelli-
ric said when asked about No More." gence and breast size."
career obstacles by Caro- She also recalled public Couric said with support