<div class="KonaFilter image-container float_right"><div class="image on-image"><img src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/524c7cc4eab8ea4f6754fc61-598-448/alec-baldwin-3.png?maxX=480" border="0" alt="Alec Baldwin" width="480" />Andreas Rentz/Getty<keyword id="27308" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Alec-Baldwin">Alec Baldwin</keyword> is fuming after <keyword id="84706" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Arpad-Busson">Arpad Busson</keyword> refused to fund one of his film projects.</div></div>Another day, another Alec Baldwin meltdown.
This time the actor is taking aim at hedge-fund billionaire-turned-film producer ("On the Road"), Arki Busson, who also happens to be Uma Thurman's boyfriend and baby daddy.
Apparently Baldwin is miffed at Busson after a trip to the Cannes Film Festival in which the actor was pitching an Iraq-set romance movie.
Baldwin was repeatedly told he couldn't get funding for the project, specifically by Busson who said it was because the "30 Rock" star is now considered a TV star, not a movie star. 
The whole thing is documented in this month's <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2402179/" target="_blank">HBO doc "Seduced and Abandoned"</a> - an exploration of several interconnected subjects: The Cannes Film Festival, cinema art, money, glamor and death.
Baldwin retaliated with an epic insult rant against Busson as reported by <a href="http://www.tvguide.com/News/Exclusive-Alec-Baldwin-Sounds-Off-On-Hollywood-1071471.aspx" target="_blank">TV Guide</a>:
<div class="KonaFilter image-container float_right" style="width:400px"><div class="image on-image"><img src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/524c7d6c69bedd6431dc409a-1116-837/arpad-busson.png" border="0" alt="Arpad Busson" width="400" />Ian Gavan/GettyArpad "Arki" Busson with longtime partner, actress Uma Thurman.</div></div>"The person who makes that statement most witheringly is [Arpad] 'Arki' Busson. He reminds me of a B-level villain in a Bond film. It's a part Robert Davi would play if you couldn't get Alan Rickman with a cat in his lap. He's a pockmarked toady who hops from yacht to yacht and bed to bed. So when some bloated little toad like Busson labels me a certain way, I say to myself, 'Consider the source.' If movie stardom meant being trapped on a yacht with Busson, I'd rather be a weatherman for Channel 4 in New York."
Catfight!
Baldwin, who's <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/alec-baldwin-msnbc-show-up-late-2013-9" target="_blank">launching an MSNBC talk show</a> this month and recently appeared in Woody Allen's "Blue Jasmine," isn't fond of film studio execs, either.
"These are <keyword id="6360040" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="people">people</keyword> who know nothing about what makes a movie," Baldwin says. "I'm not blaming them - they only have what they have. They're all factotums of multi-lateral corporations. It's all money, money, money."
But there is at least one person in Hollywood who Baldwin respects: Steven Spielberg.
"He owns his own f---ing studio," Baldwin says of the Dreamworks honcho. "He doesn't have to go to one of the douchebags from Warner Bros. and explain to them why his movie is marketable."

Alec Baldwin Slams Billionaire Hedge Funder Arpad Busson As 'B-Level Villain In A Bond Film'

<div class="image-container float_right" style="width:400px"><div class="image"><img src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/4df23a4649e2ae2872000000-590-443/4-59.jpg?maxX=400&amp;maxY=300" border="0" alt="kate middleton prince william" width="400" height="300" /></div><a href="http://www.arkonline.org/">Courtesy of ARK</a>The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at the 10th Annual ARK Gala Dinner. </div>A lavish annual hedge fund <keyword id="6351" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="charity">charity</keyword> gala dinner in London has been called off this year. 
<a href="http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/de8bc448-b008-11e2-8d07-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2RrI1N4zv">Hedge fund correspondent Sam Jones at the Financial Times reports</a> that the ARK Gala Dinner, a $15,500-per-ticket event attended by financiers, celebrities and royalty, will not be happening.
It seems some felt the ostentatious event was out of step with the current economic conditions. 
<a href="http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/de8bc448-b008-11e2-8d07-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2RrI1N4zv">From the FT: </a>
"It was all getting to feel a little bit 1788 and all that," said a person connected with Ark, in a comparison of the gala to the court of Louis XVI on the eve of the French Revolution.
The annual dinner raised funds for ARK (Absolute Return for Kids), a charity co-founded founded by London-based French hedge fund manager <keyword id="84706" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Arpad-Busson">Arpad Busson</keyword>. 
Guests at past dinners have included the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Madonna, Bill Clinton, <a href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/04/29/financiers-charity-gala-goes-the-way-of-canaps/">Pierre Lagrange (co-founder of GLG Partners), Louis Bacon (Moore Capital) and Kevin Spacey</a>, according to Dealbook's Julia Wedingier. 
It's unclear if there will ever be more annual ARK gala dinners in the future.

One Of London's Most Glamorous Hedge Fund Galas Has Been Cancelled

<div class="KonaFilter image-container float_right"><div class="image on-image"><img src="http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/526765df69beddda0bab2fb9-631-473/arpad-busson-elle-macpherson-2.png?maxX=480" border="0" alt="Arpad Busson Elle Macpherson" width="480" />Evan Agostini/GettyBefore she was married to Jeffrey Soffer, Elle Macpherson dated London-based Swiss financier Arpad Busson -- who is now dating Uma Thurman.</div></div>The <a href="http://pagesix.com/2013/10/18/behind-gwyneth-paltrows-feud-with-vanity-fair/" target="_blank">New York Post</a> reported last week that Gwyneth Paltrow was <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com.au/gwyneth-paltrow-boycotting-vanity-fair-2013-9" target="_blank">so against</a> an upcoming, unauthorized Vanity Fair profile about herself because it <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com.au/gwyneth-paltrow-is-trying-to-stop-her-vanity-fair-profile-because-it-alleges-she-had-an-affair-with-jeffrey-soffer-2013-10" target="_blank">alleges the married actress had a 2008 affair</a> with billionaire real estate mogul, Jeffrey Soffer.
Paltrow's rep fervently <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com.au/gwyneth-paltrow-is-trying-to-stop-her-vanity-fair-profile-because-it-alleges-she-had-an-affair-with-jeffrey-soffer-2013-10" target="_blank">denies the claims</a>, while Soffer has clearly moved on - as he married model Elle Macpherson earlier this year.
But this isn't the first time a billionaire has been at the center of a celebrity love triangle or media storm.
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