William Baldwin
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"William "Billy" Joseph Baldwin" is an American actor, producer, and writer known for his starring roles in such films as Flatliners (1990), Backdraft (film)/Backdraft (1991), Sliver (film)/Sliver (1993), Fair Game (1995 film)/Fair Game (1995), Virus (1999 film)/Virus (1999), Double Bang (2001), as Johnny 13 in Danny Phantom (2004–2007), Art Heist (2004), The Squid and the Whale (2005), as himself in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, as Senator Patrick Darling in the TV drama Dirty Sexy Money (2007–2009) on American Broadcasting Company/ABC, Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths (2010), was a regular guest on Gossip Girl as William van der Woodsen until December 2012, and Parenthood (2010 TV series)/Parenthood as Gordon Flint. Baldwin appeared as lead detective Brian Albert in the Lifetime Original Movie The Craigslist Killer. In 2011, Baldwin was cast in a recurring role on Hawaii Five-0 as a dirty cop, former homicide detective Frank Delano, appearing over the show's second season as well as the season premiere episode of the third season. In 2013, Baldwin joined the cast of BBC America's Copper (TV series)/Copper for two episodes of season 2, prior to the series being cancelled.

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It's better to make a couple thousand dollars in one day than to wait table six days a week.

My father was kind of a local pillar of the community, a high-school teacher and football coach. He was always very politically knowledgeable because he was a social studies teacher. But in terms of his activism, it was more social and charitable in nature, rather than political.

A community is a group of people who have come together, and they work and they live to try and improve the standard of living and quality of life - and I don't mean money.

I didn't really party until college.

A strong economy causes an increase in the demand for housing; the increased demand for housing drives real-estate prices and rentals through the roof. And then affordable housing becomes completely inaccessible.

I've been involved with the Creative Coalition since shortly after the founding... I love to really roll up my sleeves and get my hands dirty on any level when it comes to these sorts of issues... on a grass roots level or a clerical level. I love to educate myself and others and help raise awareness on important issues.

I've always said that I was an activist before I became a celebrity.

Guess what? There's more and more compelling evidence that if you feed a child a steady diet of Marilyn Manson and violent video games and hyper-sexual imagery... something needs to be done.

Clearly, there are a thousand and one scenarios for how someone can slip through the cracks. I'll walk down the street and see a homeless person, and I'll want to stop them and say, How did this happen? Where's your mother? Are you physically ill? Mentally ill?