Sarah Michelle Gellar

On Baldwin’s set, no Field of dreams

Alec Baldwin rejected departing designer Patricia Field’s charge he acted badly on the ’Girls Guide to Hunting & Fishing’ set.

I hear that when stylist and costume designer Patricia Field quit the New York production of "The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing" on Friday, she blamed the allegedly bad behavior of Alec Baldwin as a factor in her decision.

I’m told Field has privately complained not only about Baldwin but about the production’s alleged "total disorganization." Yesterday, she declined to comment on these issues.

"I’m not interested in fighting," Field told me. "I don’t want to be spending my time on negativity. ... Working is not a problem. I have a lot of work, thank God. Life is short. You want to enjoy each day."

But Baldwin - who stars opposite Sarah Michelle Gellar in the movie based on the popular chick-lit novel - vigorously defended himself in a phone call, and called Field "a fruit-salad head" and a "wack job, 24-7" among other choice epithets.

"When Pat left, virtually everybody on the film was relieved," Baldwin told me. "She is a cranky, miserably unhappy woman, and I’m actually one of the few people on the set that actually gave Pat a chance."

Baldwin said Field tried to dictate costume choices, unlike more prominent Hollywood designers he’s worked with. "I did my job, which was to say ’yes,’ ’no,’ ’yes,’ ’no.’ I never had an argument with Pat."

Also joining in Baldwin’s defense was Gellar, who told me: "Alec has been a doll, and anything else you’ve heard is entirely one-sided and untrue. Alec has been a dream co-star. It hurt me so deeply that anyone would say anything else."

Co-producer Linda McDonough also went after Field, whose costume work includes "Sex and the City," "The Devil Wears Prada" (out June 30) and the ABC fall series "Six Degrees."

"The situation was strictly one of creative differences, not an unusual aspect of this business, and the producers find Alec Baldwin to be a consummate professional with sophisticated tastes," McDonough told me. "Patricia has outrageously singled out Alec, when the producers and the director found her tastes to be inappropriate for this classy film."