Sarah Michelle Gellar

When Patricia Field, the costume designer for the upcoming film "The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing" starring Sarah Michelle Gellar and Alec Baldwin, quit the production late last week, she blamed Alec Baldwin’s behavior for her departure.

But Lloyd Grove reports this morning that Baldwin, never one to hold back his ire, isn’t taking the allegation lightly. He calls Field "a fruit-salad head" and a "whack job, 24-7," among other things. "When Pat left, virtually everybody on the film was relieved. She is a cranky, miserably unhappy woman." Gellar defends Baldwin, telling Grove, "Alec has been a doll, and anything else you’ve heard is entirely one-sided and untrue. Alec has been a dream co-star."

Field, for her part, declined to comment on the fracas.