3. HE FORMED A COMEDY DUO WITH SONS OF ANARCHY\u2019S MARK BOONE, JR.<\/strong><\/p>\nFor a brief while, Buscemi tried his hand at stand-up comedy (he bombed). In 1984, he met fellow aspiring actor Mark Boone, Jr., and the two began performing together. Part improv, part scripted comedy, the two would often carry out power struggles that pitted thin-man Buscemi against the larger Boone. The New York Times called their act \u201ctheater in the absurdist vein.\u201d<\/p>\n
8. HIS CHARACTER IN CON AIR WAS WRITTEN SPECIFICALLY FOR HIM.<\/strong>
\nIn Con Air, the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced action movie filled with muscled-up prisoners, Buscemi played the most dangerous con of them all. His Garland Greene\u2014a serial killer whose exploits \u201cmake the Manson family look like the Partridge family,\u201d according to one character\u2014enters the film strapped to a chair, Hannibal Lecter mask affixed to his face. Screenwriter Scott Rosenberg, a friend of Buscemi\u2019s, wrote the part with him in mind, and was tickled when Buscemi accepted the role. To this day, fans will still serenade the actor with \u201cHe\u2019s Got the Whole World in His Hands.\u201d<\/p>\n9. HIS CHARACTER IN DESPERADO IS NAMED AFTER HIM.
\n<\/strong>Although he inevitably dies (courtesy of Danny Trejo\u2019s throwing knives), Buscemi commands the opening of Desperado, Robert Rodriguez\u2019s stylish revenge movie, regaling bar patrons with the story of the title gunslinger, played by Antonio Banderas. Because his character\u2019s name is never mentioned, Rodriguez decided to have some fun and name him “Buscemi” in the credits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeff Wells and Mental_Floss present 16 Endearing Facts About Steve Buscemi. Here are three of my favorites… 3. HE FORMED A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-trivia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16514,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16513\/revisions\/16514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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