The NYDaily News reports on Alec Baldwin’s mini-meltdown and Meryl Streep’s depression over Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito:

Alec Baldwin is appalled that Sen. Ted Kennedy and other liberals could muster only 25 of the 41 votes needed for a filibuster to block Samuel Alito’s Supreme Court confirmation.

The problem, he told us at Tuesday’s meeting of the Oxonian Society, is the number of “chicken-bleep Democrats in the Senate. We have a bunch of budding Zell Millers down there,” referring to the crusty Georgia senator who backed the Republican agenda in 2004. Although that was almost two years ago, Baldwin says, “I loathe and despise him on a daily basis.”

Meanwhile, Meryl Streep needs a dose of Prozac. “I’m so demoralized,” she told us at the Broadway opening of Sarah Jones’ brilliant “Bridge and Tunnel.”

Overseas, Jim Geraghty reports that American actors Billy Zane and Gary Busey are part of the cast for a new Bush-deranged, US troop-bashing film debuting in Turkey. A description of the plot:

In the most expensive Turkish movie ever made, American soldiers in Iraq crash a wedding and pump a little boy full of lead in front of his mother.

They kill dozens of innocent people with random machine gun fire, shoot the groom in the head, and drag those left alive to Abu Ghraib prison where a Jewish doctor cuts out their organs, which he sells to rich people in New York, London and Tel Aviv.

Valley of the Wolves Iraq, set to open in Turkey on Friday, feeds off the increasingly negative feelings many Turks harbor toward their longtime NATO allies: Americans.

The movie, which reportedly cost some $10 million, is the latest in a new genre of popular culture that demonizes the United States. It comes on the heels of a novel called Metal Storm about a war between Turkey and the U.S., which has been a best seller for months.

But don’t question their patriotism.

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More on the Turkey turkey from Debbie Schlussel and Ed Morrissey.

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