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“Extra’s” AJ Calloway caught up with Alec Baldwin at the National Board of Review in New York City and talked about the return of “30 Rock” — and a mysterious black band on his left hand.

Calloway inquired as to what Baldwin was wearing on his left hand, to which the TV star winked, “It’s my secret.’ Baldwin, 53, has been dating yoga instructor Hilaria Thomas, 28, since early 2011.

The actor returns to “30 Rock” Thursday, and says he’s happy to be back, adding, “I think this season is funny.”

Baldwin will also be heading to Canada for a special charity event with Robert Kennedy, Jr., and will miss this year’s Golden Globes. He added, “They’ll do fine without me.” Baldwin is nominated for Best Actor in a Comedy Series.

“30 Rock” airs Thursday at 8:00 PM on NBC.

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American Airlines flight attendants have requested that Alec Baldwin’s hit show 30 Rock is pulled from in-flight entertainment options following last week’s bust-up between the actor and a staff member.

Baldwin was escorted off an American Airlines flight bound for New York after disobeying a steward’s request to turn off his cell phone in preparation for take-off.

A war of words between airline bosses and the star has since ensued, and Baldwin made matters worse when he appeared on Saturday Night Live at the weekend and made a mockery of the incident.

Now, officials at America’s Flight Attendants Association are calling for a Baldwin boycott on all American Airlines flights.

A statement from the union reads, “The Apfa has requested that American Airlines remove the show from future flights, but would be agreeable to implementing it again if and only if Mr. Baldwin publicly apologizes to American Airlines flight attendants.”

Baldwin, who has vowed never to fly American again, issued an apology to his fellow passengers last week, insisting he never meant to disrupt the flight and cause a delay.

A flight attendant was the subject of a Twitter tirade from Alec Baldwin after the actor was booted from a plane at Los Angeles International Airport for playing a word game on his cell phone as the plane was about to depart for New York.

The “30 Rock” actor was playing a game called “Words with Friends” while the plane idled at a gate Tuesday, said Baldwin’s spokesman, Matthew Hiltzik.

“He loves `Words with Friends’ so much that he was willing to leave a plane for it,” said Hiltzik, who added that Baldwin boarded another American Airlines flight to New York.

Baldwin, a prolific Twitter user, took to the social media site to vent, saying a “flight attendant on American reamed me out 4 playing Words With Friends while we sat at the gate, not moving.”

Baldwin tweeted that it would be his last flight with American, despite the fact that they show “30 Rock” for in-flight entertainment.

He mocked American Airlines flight attendants on Twitter, saying the airline is “where Catholic school gym teachers from the 1950′s find jobs as flight attendants.”

It wasn’t clear if passengers had been asked to turn off their cellphones, which is typical before a flight backs away from the terminal.

American Airlines spokesman Ed Martelle declined comment, citing customer privacy concerns.

Airport police Sgt. Belinda Nettles said officers did not respond to the incident.

Baldwin called “Words With Friends” an “addicting” game. Players compete online to score the most points by building words with tiles on a Scrabble-like game board.

Baldwin plays the role of executive Jack Donaghy on “30 Rock” and played an amorous ex-husband to Meryl Streep in the 2009 romantic comedy “It’s Complicated.”

ALEC Baldwin — who called his daughter, Ireland, a “thoughtless little pig” in a voice mail two years ago — is still trash-talking her. Asked about Ireland, now 13, by David Letterman on his show last week, Baldwin joked, “I see why, in these films where they represent the Mayan culture or any tribal cuture or Hawaiian culture, they always throw the teenage girl into a volcano. They always say, oh, it’s their hormones, and I really don’t care. They should be sent to some kind of Chinese re-education camp in the mountains for five years.”

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Alec Baldwin doesn’t eviscerate ex-wife Kim Basinger outright in his new book, “A Promise to Ourselves,” but he sure does slice and dice lawyers and the media.

The “30 Rock” star makes the unkindest cuts to Harvey Levin, who posted on TMZ Baldwin’s now-infamous voice-mail rant to his daughter Ireland, whom Basinger had taken 3,000 miles away when she left the actor and New York.

Baldwin had been trying to reach his daughter, then 11, but “she was off for spring break with her mother and her phone was turned off for 10 consecutive days … This had gone on for years now and … when the beep came, I snapped. [Levin] seemed to be that breed of tabloid creature that realized an almost sexual level of pleasure from ruining other people’s lives.”

“He has created TMZ as the updated receptacle of … trash,” Baldwin writes. “He leads a cadre of self-satisfied twentysomethings who jump like rats from public relations sinking ship to sinking ship.”

The release of the tape caused Baldwin to become suicidal, as he and the agoraphobic actress had been fighting in court over their daughter for six years.

“Driving up the Taconic Parkway, heading to an inn in the Berkshire Mountains, I began to think about what little town I would repair to in order to commit suicide. What semi-remote Massachusetts state park could I hike deep into and overdose there? When I returned to New York, the thought of jumping out the window of my apartment was with me every night for weeks.”

Thinking of Ireland, he resisted, thankfully. “I love my daughter with all my heart,” he writes.

Baldwin said he wrote the book to expose a legal system in which “professionals who arrive on the scene often are there to prolong the bleeding, not to stop it.” He thinks fathers especially get a bad shake in family court and adds, “I hope this benefits other men and women who love their children.”

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