As if going through the humiliation of seeing an angry phone call Alec made to his 11-year-old daughter leaked onto YouTube wasn't sufficient, the Oscar-nominated actor lately heard that a film he asked his name to be removed from is to be released - a full six years after it was supposed to hit cinemas.

The Devil and Daniel Webster was bounded by Baldwin and stars Anthony Hopkins, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Dan Aykroyd, as well as the Glengarry Glen Ross star himself. Based on the supposed novel by Stephen Vincent Benet, the film hit the slides in 2001 during post-production when the FBI detained the investors' assets, including the film, in the route of a bank scam investigation.

Baldwin afterward asked for his name to be removed from the credits but the film was finally sold to a new sharing company, the Yari Film Group. Boasting the new name Shortcut To Happiness, the film finally released in the US. It has reportedly been re-edited into an unrecognizable structure, with the false director 'Harry Kirkpatrick' listed on the credits.
Baldwin has not made any public remark on the film's release, but the US rumor site PageSix reports that he is advising his fans not to see it.

The movie has a Faustian theme, with Baldwin playing a down-on-his-luck writer upset by the success of a close friend, who makes a deal with the devil, played by Love Hewitt, to bring him untold wealth.

It was released in six US cities on Friday - though not, perhaps, the six US cities where a film might usually be screened on limited release. Rather than LA, New York and Chicago etc, the film will be seen by cinemagoers in Las Vegas, Rochester, Fort Myers, Columbus, Albuquerque and Santa Fe.