About That Time Stephen Baldwin Allegedly Tried to Blackmail Kevin Costner...

The AP reports on the ongoing courtroom drama between actor/reality TV personality/bankrupt Republican Stephen Baldwin and actor/musician/celebrity investor Kevin Costner, which took a turn for the salacious this week when a witness testified that Baldwin had transpired to "blackmail" Costner over a sum of $21 million involving the pair's interests in ocean clean-up technology, of all things, following the 2010 BP oil spill. "I said, 'Stephen, that's blackmail,'" [business associate Scott Smith] recalled. He quoted Baldwin as saying, "I have to be careful how I do it." And to think, it all started when the Bio-Dome and Waterworld stars joined forces in the name of the environment... [AP via Fox News]