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  Steve Buscemi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Buscemi was born in Brooklyn, New York to John Buscemi (an Italian American Korean War veteran) and an Irish American mother.
Steve Buscemi's sexiest lead role was opposite Richard Ganoug in Parting Glances (1986).
Steve Buscemi is married to Jo Andres, who is also involved with the arts as a performance artist, choreographer and filmmaker, according to www.celebritywonder.com.
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 Steve Buscemi - Biography - Moviefone
One of the most important character actors of the 1990s, Steve Buscemi is unmatched in his ability to combine lowlife posturing with weasely charisma.
Buscemi's resume was given a further boost that same year by his recurring role as a serial killer on the popular TV drama L.A. Law; he subsequently began finding steady work in such films as New York Stories and Mystery Train (both 1989).
The Coens went on to cast Buscemi in nearly all of their films, featuring him to particularly memorable effect in Barton Fink (1991), in which he played a bell boy; Fargo (1996), which featured him as an ill-fated kidnapper; and The Big Lebowski (1998), which saw him portray a laid-back ex-surfer.
movies.aol.com /celebrity/steve-buscemi/9838/biography   (643 words)

  
 Steve Buscemi
Actor and director, Steve Buscemi was born on 13 December 1957 and used to be with New York Fire Department.
Buscemi is involved in other creative collaborations with his brother as described in his week in winter 2005.
Steve Buscemi lives in New York with his wife Jo and son, Lucian, who, when just fifteen, was in a band called Stungun.
www.biogs.com /actors/buscemi.html   (309 words)

  
 The Biography Channel - Steve Buscemi Biography
Although Buscemi has done his best work outside of the Hollywood mainstream, he has occasionally appeared in blockbusters such as 'Con Air' (1997), 'Armageddon' (1998), and '28 Days' (2000), the last of which cast him against type as Sandra Bullock's rehab counsellor.
In 1996, Buscemi made his screenwriting and directorial debut with 'Trees Lounge', a well-received comedy drama, in which he played a down-on-his-luck auto mechanic shuffling through life on Long Island.
Buscemi has also directed notable episodes of hit TV shows, such as 'The Sopranos'.
www.thebiographychannel.co.uk /biography_home/708:0/Steve_Buscemi.htm   (267 words)

  
 INTERVIEW: Steve Buscemi Does Time; Directing "Animal Factory"
Buscemi: It took them awhile to sort of understand why they had to wait around so much (laughs), and why they had to repeat so much of what they were asked to do.
Buscemi: He was the first one that we went to, but we didn't always imagine Mickey in that role.
Buscemi: (Laughs) No. This film took awhile to get off the ground and right now, I'm in the process of trying to get another film off the ground -- a book by William Burroughs called "Queer." We will get it made, but I want to make sure the right people are involved.
www.indiewire.com /people/int_Buscemi_Steve_001103.html   (2238 words)

  
 Steve Buscemi Gets Stabbed - Great Film Title!
In April, 2001, indie film darlings Steve Buscemi and Vince Vaughn were involved in a bar room brawl that left Vaughn in jail and Buscemi in the hospital.
Buscemi was taken to a local hospital in critical condition.
Buscemi and said, "Cool down, Steve." The actor was surprised that someone he didn't know would call him by name in that situation, especially since he wasn't upset.
www.francesfarmersrevenge.com /stuff/archive/oldnews/buscemi.htm   (640 words)

  
 Steve Buscemi --[ EDITING ROOM ] SCENE 360
Buscemi has worked with such well-known directors as Quentin Tarantino (twice), Jim Jarmusch (thrice), and the brothers Coen (five times), and also has a filmmaking credit of his own for directing, writing and producing Trees Lounge.
Steve Buscemi is the one bright spot in the film, playing the role of Banderas' best friend.
Buscemi plays a kidnapper turned murderer when he and his partner embark on a simple kidnapping that turns out to be anything but.
www.scene360.com /EDITINGroom_Buscemi.html   (1118 words)

  
 Steve Buscemi Photos - Steve Buscemi News - Steve Buscemi Information
Steve Buscemi was born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
Steve bears such a strong resemblance to writer-director John Waters so much so that as a joke, Waters sent out cards with a photo of Buscemi made up to look like Waters.
Steve is the brother of actor Michael Buscemi.
www.tv.com /steve-buscemi/person/2902/summary.html   (271 words)

  
 MovieMaker Magazine | Issue #48 | Black and White in Color   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Part of Buscemi's talent lies in his ability to truly put a part of himself into each role he plays so that, whether a hero or villain, he's creating a character that is based in genuine human behavior—his own.
[Steve] seemed to intuitively understand the part, and played against the way most people assumed it should have been played." Ignoring the literal character sketch, Zwigoff says Buscemi "didn't try to be eccentric or weird or nerdy.
Buscemi stayed mostly behind the camera for his sophomore directorial outing, but proved once again to be a distinct voice.
www.moviemaker.com /issues/48/buscemi.html   (2622 words)

  
 Steve Buscemi - Indie King
With an impressive 89 movies and 16 television performances under his belt over the course of his 19 year career, Steve not only impresses as an actor, but as a writer/director as well.
Seemingly as comfortable behind the camera as in front, he continues to develop himself as a director with films such as Trees Lounge, Animal Factory and several projects for HBO including an acclaimed episode of The Sopranos and the pilot for Baseball Wives.
As an actor, Buscemi is often cast as the weasel, con, thug or occasional serial killer.
www.indieking.com   (455 words)

  
 Steve Buscemi - Articles
Lange was joined by Ethan Hawke and Steve Buscemi in leading a small group of protesters to the mission in New York, where they handed over the petition which called for a tougher UN inspection regime in Iraq to replace the threat of military action against Baghdad.
I'm not quite clear on where Steve was in the birth-order of his family; I can't say that I knew Ken or Michael (the names you mention in your question); I only knew Jon and Steve, and Steve was the younger of the two.
Buscemi's "Animal Factory," which opens Friday, is a prison drama built around the complex relationship between a young man (Edward Furlong) sent up for marijuana possession and the hardened leader of a prison gang (Willem Dafoe) who takes him under his wing.
www.indieking.com /articles.html   (12218 words)

  
 Q&A With Steve Buscemi and Seymour Cassel
STEVE BUSCEMI: Yeah, it was shot on color stock and printed in fl and white.
STEVE BUSCEMI: It was scripted, but Alex gave us a lot of freedom to come up with stuff.
STEVE BUSCEMI: You know, if you're going to die for somebody, it may as well be the Coens.
www.theslant.com /arts_media/articles/buscemi.html   (1023 words)

  
 The Steve Buscemi Picture Pages
Steve Buscemi is an award-winning American actor who steals viewers’ hearts through his dead-on screen performances, such as his portrayal of a middle-aged vinyl record collector named Seymour in the comedy drama Ghost World (2001), in which he reaped numerous awards, including a National Society of Film Critics Award and an Independent Spirit Award.
Buscemi, who has a noticeable scar on his cheek due to a barroom attack, is the husband of Jo Andres.
Buscemi was also seen as prisoner Garland ‘The Marietta Mangler’ Greene in Con Air (1997) and reunited with the Coen brothers in the mob comedy The Big Lebowski (1998) before helming an episode of the TV series “Homicide: Life on the Street” titled Finnegan’s Wake (1998, received a Director’s Guild of America Award nomination).
www.superiorpics.com /steve_buscemi   (1418 words)

  
 Steve Buscemi Is God   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Born December 13, 1957 in Brooklyn, New York, Steve Buscemi gained an interest in theatre while a senior at Valley Stream Central High School.
This began Buscemi's career as a brilliant [though sometimes underrated] indie film actor, a status he still enjoys to this day in spite of his appearance in a few mainstream pictures.
Steve Buscemi manages to remain a very private person, still living in his home state of New York with his wife, performance artist/choreographer, Jo Andres and their 8-year old son, Lucian.
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 Steve Buscemi Biography, Pictures, News Headlines, Links
Buscemi's television credits include directing and acting in the hit HBO series "The Sopranos." During the third season, he was nominated for an Emmy and a Directors Guild of America award for his direction of the "Pine Barrens" episode.
Maybe that's why the news that Buscemi was attacked in a bar-room brawl in April (he was stabbed in the throat, face and arm) didn't come as that much of a surprise.
Buscemi has plenty of good acting stuff coming up (he plays sad-sack loner, Seymour, in Terry Zwigoff's Ghost World, and a Jew forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz in The Grey Zone), but it's directing, with all its dangers, that he wants to focus on.
www.mytelevision.com /movie_stars/steve_buscemi.html   (15551 words)

  
 steve_buscemi - The Boston Globe
Given Buscemi's noted preference for working with friends and confidantes (Mark Boone Jr., who plays Jim's pot-addled Uncle ''Evil" Stacy, is a theater pal dating back to 1983; cinematographer Phil Parmet first met Buscemi on the set of Alexandre Rockwell's ''In the Soup" in 1992), the film's call sheet reads like a housewarming invitation.
This year, Buscemi has an uncredited cameo as a brash coffee shop owner in ''Art School Confidential" for ''Ghost World" director Terry Zwigoff, and brief roles in ''Paris, je t'aime," a film of 20 love stories debuting at the Cannes Film Festival in May, and ''Romance and Cigarettes," a musical costarring Gandolfini.
Buscemi is also set to headline ''We're the Millers," a comedy by ''Wedding Crashers" screenwriters Steve Faber and Bob Fisher, in which he plays.
boston.com /ae/movies/articles/2006/05/09/steve_buscemi/?...+stories   (1403 words)

  
 Steve Buscemi
Steve Buscemi may be one seriously weird looking dude - but he's one seriously talented actor, too.
Buscemi first struck a chord with moviegoers as a dying AIDS victim in Bill Sherwood's Parting Glances.
While filming Domestic Disturbance in Wilmington, North Carolina in 2001, Buscemi was stabbed in the throat, head and arm during a barroom brawl.
www.tribute.ca /bio.asp?id=1412   (399 words)

  
 HBO: Steve Buscemi as Tony Blundetto: The Sopranos
Buscemi can now be seen in Columbia Picture's "BIG FISH" costarring Ewan McGregor, directed by Tim Burton about a writer who learns that his father is dying and through their sharing of tall tales, the writer comes to terms with his ancestry as well as his deepest dreams.
In the Fall of 2002, Buscemi was seen in Tim Blake Nelson's "THE GREY ZONE" with Harvey Keitel, David Arquette and Mira Sorvino.
In addition to his talents as an actor, Buscemi has proven to be a respected writer and a director, as well.
www.hbo.com /sopranos/cast/actor/steve_buscemi.shtml   (662 words)

  
 Steve Buscemi - Salon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Dough-faced, with eyes stolen from the great Peter Lorre, Steve Buscemi almost always plays the kind of fellow you wouldn't dare turn your back on for fear of a rusty ice pick to the kidneys.
This odd, staggered distribution belies the film's bravura performances, with Dafoe as a bald, savvy con in the pen for the long haul and, apparently, in love with Furlong's character Ron Decker, a new "fish" behind bars for the first time after being busted for dealing large quantities of pot.
In addition, Buscemi gets startling performances from Arnold as a greasy Southern pervert and from Rourke as a muscular transvestite with long green fingernails, missing teeth and a penchant for daydreaming out loud about strolling down the Champs Elysées.
dir.salon.com /people/conv/2000/11/13/buscemi/index.html   (820 words)

  
 Steve Buscemi @ Filmbug
Steve Buscemi has built his career by portraying a variety of remarkable characters.
Buscemi recently finished directing his second feature, Animal Factory, which debuted at a special screening at this year's Sundance Film Festival.
In addition to his talents as an actor, Buscemi has proven to be a respected writer and director.
www.filmbug.com /db/238   (314 words)

  
 Steve Buscemi - Indie King
Actor Steve Buscemi was born and raised in Brooklyn, and the former firefighter's snide, skinny New York-style oddness has become almost a brand name since he broke into films from the East Village comedy and art scene of the early '80s.
Now Buscemi wants to introduce a wider audience to one of the late, great New York characters from that era.
When Redglare fell on hard times, Buscemi says he'd help his troubled friend out with money for rent and food, and casting him in films he directed (including "Trees Lounge").
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 Vince Vaughn | Steve Buscemi | Domestic Disturbance : ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Thursday morning at approximately 2:30 a.m., actors Vince Vaughn and Steve Buscemi -- who are on location filming the thriller ''Domestic Disturbance'' with John Travolta in Wilmington, North Carolina -- got into a brawl with locals at a downtown bar called Firebelly, located on Front Street.
While the cause of the fight is unknown, it resulted in Buscemi's being stabbed with a knife above the eye,under his jaw, in his neck, and on his arms.
While Vaughn is expected back at work Friday, Buscemi's return date is unclear, although the source says the filmmakers are under the belief that his scars will not be visible and that he will be able to return to the set to finish work.
www.ew.com /ew/report/0,6115,106156~1~0~stevebuscemiisknifed,00.html   (440 words)

  
 Steve Buscemi News
Monster House Director: Gil Kenan Cast : Sam Lerner, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Steve Buscemi, Mitchel Musso, Jason Lee Cert: PG It's the old house with dark secrets plot again...
Director: Gil Kenan Cast: Steve Buscemi, Kevin James, Nick Cannon Screenplay: Dan Harmon & Rob Schrab & Pamela Pettler Rated PG Rating: 4 reels out of 5 Let it not be said that I cannot admit when I am wrong.
Christian Slater, Steve Buscemi And John Cleese Lend Voices To Exodus' Cg-Animated Feature Igor The Weinstein Company to Distribute Igor VENICE, CA Exodus Film Group announced today that Christian Slater, Steve...
www.topix.net /who/steve-buscemi   (614 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Film | Interviews | Steve Buscemi (I)
One of the most recognisable faces - and voices - in contemporary cinema, Steve Buscemi has worked with the biggest names in independent US cinema, most noticably the Coen brothers, but is equally at home in Hollywood blockbusters such as Armageddon.
Following a screening of Animal Factory, his second film as a director, Buscemi talked to Adrian Wootton about his film career, as well as his previous experience as a stand-up comic and a fireman.
Steve Buscemi on: working as a stand-up comedian
film.guardian.co.uk /interview/interviewpages/0,6737,522669,00.html   (2784 words)

  
 Open Directory - Arts:People:B:Buscemi, Steve   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
At age 44, he has carved out a place for himself in film-making history as one of the most prolific and eclectic forces in the independent (as well as mainstream) filmmaking communities.
With an impressive 80 movies and 11 television performances under his belt in his relatively short 18 year career, Steve not only impresses as an actor, but as a writer/director as well.
A former NYC firefighter himself from 1980-1984, Steve donned his old turnout gear to work at ground zero, the site of the World Trade Center attack, among his grieving and fallen brothers.
dmoz.org /Arts/People/B/Buscemi,_Steve/desc.html   (259 words)

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