Talk:Steve Buscemi

Stabbing
I know that Buscemi was stabbed several times in April 2001 when he was involved in a bar fight. Vince Vaughn was present and was arrested. I was wondering if someone could put some information regarding this incident in the article? (The SmokingGun.com has Vaughn's mugshots from the night in question). MagicBez 17:00, 30 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I believe this was during the filming of the John Travolta vehicle Domestic Distrubance. He, Vaughn and the screenwriter, Scott Rosenberg, got into a bar fight with a local, Timothy Fogerty, at the Firebelly Lounge in Wilmington, North Carolina. Buscemi tried to break up the fight but ended up getting stabbed for his trouble. I think I remember hearing about it because Buscemi was supposedly stabbed in the head, throat, and arm. He now has a scar on his cheek that is covered up by makeup. --YoungFreud 14:19, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Buscemi Stabbed, Vaughn Jailed After Bar-Room Brawl Date: 14th April 2001

RESERVOIR DOGS (1992) star STEVE BUSCEMI is in hospital, and SWINGERS (1996) star VINCE VAUGHN in jail after a bar-room brawl at the FIREBELLY LOUNGE in Wilmington, North Carolina.

Buscemi had joined Vaughn and screenwriter SCOTT ROSENBERG at the bar during a break from filming JOHN TRAVOLTA's new movie DOMESTIC DISTURBANCE (2001).

Wilmington local TIMOTHY FOGERTY, 21, has been arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon after he allegedly stabbed Buscemi in the head, throat and arm in the early hours of yesterday morning (12APR01).

The FARGO (1996) star was taken to New Hanover Regional Hospital in critical condition and was later discharged and flown to New York.

Sources on the set of the movie claim, despite initial concerns, Buscemi's injuries were minor and the actor is expected back on the set on Monday (16APR01). Police say the fight broke out around 2.30 a.m local time, after Fogerty had made comments about wanting to "slice someone."

OFFICER CRYSTAL WILLIAMSON says, "From what witnesses say, he provoked the fight." Williamson says that when Buscemi, Vaughn and Rosenberg were leaving, the fight broke out. Vaughn, 31, and Rosenberg, whose credits include CON-AIR (1996) and the new SPIDER-MAN (2002) movie, were arrested and held on $600 (£400) bail. Both are due in court in June (01). (KL/WN/NFA)

The man accused of stabbing actor STEVE BUSCEMI made his first appearance in New Hanover County District Court, America, on Monday (16APR01) - charged with cutting the actor's head, throat and arm in a bar fight last week.

TIMOTHY WILLIAM FOGERTY, 21, appeared before JUDGE JOHN CARROLL who did not adjust the $50,000 (£33,000) bail bond which Fogerty paid on Friday (13APR01).

Fogerty waived his right to court-appointed counsel. He has hired Wilmington lawyer BILL PEREGOY to represent him on the charge of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, inflicting serious injury.

Actor VINCE VAUGHN, screenwriter SCOTT ROSENBERG, and KENNETH ROBERT PURGASON of Wilmington were charged with affray, a misdemeanour, in the incident. All are free on bail.

A warrant on Vaughn was issued Monday on a misdemeanour assault charge. The charge alleges Vaughn struck a man standing by, but not involved in the melee. (SVD/WN/RP)

Pronunciation
is his name pronounced BYU-SEMI or BYU-SKEMMY i say SEMI

I've heard BYU-SHEMI as well

Buscemi is Italian, so it's BU-SHEMI

How about the film "Ned and his Dead Mother." Not sure what the date is on that one.

Well.. A friend and I have this argument I say it's Buu-sem-ee She sayd Buu-shemi. I've read it's the way I say it.. but she wont accept that shes wrong.

Buscemi pronounced his name as boo-SEM-mee on The Simpsons. --(trogga) 23:27, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Hey, listen to that guy who said the thing about the simpsons. Its boo-sem-mee

Yep, you'd think the guy would know how to pronounce his own name... He said boo-SEM-mee on The Simpsons.


 * Yeah, I saw an interview where he said it's actually bu-semi but everybody says bu-shemi. So he seems to kind of accept that people call him bu-shemi, although it's not correct. I don't think I've ever heard anybody say anything other than bu-shemi, other than himself. 193.91.181.142 19:44, 13 July 2007 (UTC) (Nick)

Italian is a phonetic language with standard rules, so the only correct pronunciation is "Boo SHEH mee". That said, it's possible that decades of American mispronunciation have led his family to believe it's pronounced otherwise. 72.78.155.44 01:48, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Pronunciation seems worth mentioning in brief within the article itself. IPA experts? To lend some more non-textual support to the SEM side, the trivia track on Fargo notes SEM is his preference, telling stories of his wife being corrected when making hotel reservations for him. --24.61.14.0 (talk) 04:43, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Curious: Why was this information never added? I came to this page today specifically to find out this information and had to locate it in the "discussion" page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.139.144.66 (talk) 16:32, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Steve Buscemi pronounces his name "boo-SEM-ee" - pronounces it this way explicitly on a few of the Boardwalk Empire DVD commentaries. Challenger l (talk) 19:10, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

I saw that the clear English pronunciation had been changed to boo-SHEM-ee, so I changed it back. Then I realised the IPA had that SH symbol. After two different edits I realised that (in phonetic English) it had originally said "Buscemi (bu-SHEM-i/boo-SHEM-ee; bu-SEM-i in the actor's habit)". As I have pointed out in the final edit, this article is about the actor Steve Buscemi, whose name is pronounced bu-SEM-i. It is not about the correct Italian pronunciation of Buscemi. The recent edit wars about his fear of chipmunks came from a Tonight Show interview in which Jimmy Fallon managed to say Buscemi about six times, each time with the S pronunciation. Silas Maxfield (talk) 20:26, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

I found a video where he talks about the pronunciation. He says that he pronounces it boo-SEH-mee, but doesn't mind people saying boo-SHEH-mee because it's the Italian pronunciation. It would seem fair to put boo-SEH-mee as the primary pronunciation and maybe add another under "Italian:" and maybe something in the article about the pronunciation. 71.174.129.125 (talk) 09:07, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Steve Buscemi Effect
I've removed this text, which was uncited:
 * Buscemi is also the inspiration for the "Steve Buscemi effect", a phenomenon where an actor who does not fit the traditional image of a hearthrob (see George Clooney) is nevertheless considered to be one because of percieved personality or acting talent.

because I can't find any references to it on the web. If you have a print reference, please feel free to add it with a citation. -- Mikeblas 16:54, 25 January 2006 (UTC)


 * I agree. I think the first sentence says it best when it says "character actor". Calling someone a particularly beloved character actor needs sources, and naming an effect after him is bound to be NPOV or original research. -- Ianiceboy 05:10, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Pulp Fiction
I don't remember a role in Pulp Fiction...

He was the Buddy Holly waiter at Jack Rabbit Slim's. Pumpkingrrl 03:13, 10 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Oh will have to watch out for that NHWork 04:51, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Unencyclopaedic
Come on... 'Buscemi's sexiest role is....'. What does one have to do to get such unencyclopaedic nonsense removed without morons reverting you because they think all IPs removing text must be vandals? 81.179.243.112 21:12, 10 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Please read WP:ATTACK and WP:CIV. Beyond that, please read the article before you rant. That line has not been restored. The very valid line about the theater group he is associated with was restored. IrishGuy talk 21:20, 10 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Have you any idea how frustrating it is to come up against some editor who uses 'popups' to revert everything you do no matter what it is? It would drive a saint to rude words, especially when that person doesn't bother to explain anything, just uses completely undescriptive edit summaries. It took me an amazing amount of effort to get you even to concede this one sentence. Now you're still restoring some utterly irrelevant information about how he cut his hand in 2001. Why? 81.179.243.112 21:33, 10 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I support IrishGuy's decision to restore relevant points. Making personal attacks will not get you anywhere except from being blocked. --Tim1988 talk 21:52, 10 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Why do you support it? I would have thought that continually re-inserting unencyclopaedic information would be the blockable offence - apparently not. Point by point:
 * (In Fargo, Buscemi is shot in the face with a revolver, later to be fed into a woodchipper). In each Coen movie he has appeared, his remains have been smaller than in the previous film. - first sentence is redundant with what has already been explained. The second is just mind-bogglingly ridiculous and patently unworthy of inclusion. Even if you could find a reference, it's a stupid, irrelevant fact that illustrates nothing at all about Steve Buscemi.


 * It does, however, illustrate a theme within his work with the Coens. IrishGuy talk 22:32, 10 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes, the first part of the paragraph, that I left, does that. The second part is redundant as I say. Care to offer your opinion on the last part?


 * - why is this link in the text at all, with no explanation or context?


 * Then give it context. Why is your solution to everything just removing things? IrishGuy talk 22:32, 10 September 2006 (UTC)


 * How can I give it context? I've got no idea why it's there. There is no place in Wikipedia for a bare link like that so what's wrong with removing it? If you want to keep it, the onus is on you to make clear the reason for it being there.


 * In April 2001, while shooting the film Domestic Disturbance in Wilmington, North Carolina, Buscemi was cut while intervening into a bar fight between his friend Vince Vaughn, screenwriter Scott Rosenberg, and a local man, Timothy Fogerty, who allegedly instigated the brawl. - so what? Why is this one incident so important? I'm sure Steve Buscemi has cut himself lots of times. This fact is utterly unimportant. 81.179.243.112 22:28, 10 September 2006 (UTC)


 * This is not unimportant. He was stabbed during a bar fight. Vaughn was arrested and Buscemi was hospitalized. Injuries and legal run-ins are often added to biographies. IrishGuy talk 22:32, 10 September 2006 (UTC)


 * The article doesn't say the he was stabbed or hospitalised. Where are you getting that information from? Don't you think you should add it to the article, with a source, and don't you think, then, that this is not actually 'trivia'? 81.179.243.112 22:39, 10 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Basic research is all it takes, . Deletion shouldn't be the first option. <b style="color:green;">IrishGuy</b> <sup style="color:blue;">talk 22:41, 10 September 2006 (UTC)


 * So why did you simply revert? Why didn't you do the basic research and enhance the article? If you had, quite obviously I would not have been able to remove any unencyclopaedic material because you would have solved the problem. It really doesn't matter if I delete anything, it's all in the article history. However, what I hope is that removing unencyclopaedic content should encourage the creation of more encyclopaedic content. Instead it seems over-zealous hotheads like to use fancy revert tools to restore rubbish, because they can't be bothered to improve the content and just like to pick fights with anonymous editors, driven by the certainty that they, with their oh-so-descriptive username, must automatically prevail over someone who edits from an IP address. 81.179.243.112 22:49, 10 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Enough with the personal attacks. You claim that what you are doing isn't against policy so I show you the policy. You do it again anyway. You claim that what you remove isn't true, so I show you more evidence. You do it again anyway. You get more rude and more abusive with each edit. <b style="color:green;">IrishGuy</b> <sup style="color:blue;">talk 22:52, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

You haven't listened to anything I've said. You started by assuming I was a vandal, and I've become increasingly frustrated by your thick headed refusal to consider that you might not be right to keep on reverting. I've shown you the policy I am following - you've chosen to take it that the policy says 'never remove trivia', quite the opposite of what it says. You have conspicuously failed to discuss, you just keep on reverting again and again and again. 81.179.243.112 22:57, 10 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I have discussed this with you on three user talk pages as well as this one. The policies have been laid out for you and yet you willfully ignore them on your deleting rampage. You are vandalising articles. Please stop. <b style="color:green;">IrishGuy</b> <sup style="color:blue;">talk 23:00, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Comic Relief —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.216.160.226 (talk) 17:04, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

I don't think the statement that he provides "comic relief" in Adam Sandler movies is accurate. I don't think it's possible to have "comic relief" in a comedy, is it?

Yes it is. It's possible to have comic relief in a stand up comic routine. In Waterboy Steve buscemi broke up an uncomfortable "romance" scene between the two main characters. In Animal or w/e with rob schneider, he put a comic spin on an unbearably tense situation

Commercial Work K Krum (talk) 08:19, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

What is a good source for voice-actors: someone sounding a lot like Buscemi can be heard on a 2007 AT&T animated commercial as a Gingerbread Man who's son wants a cell phone.

Dead Man
I recently watched Dead Man for the first tIme. Doesn't Steve play the barman who sells Blake the "bottle"? He is hardly recognisable under the beard and doesn't say anything. No info on this from IMDB. TINY MARK  17:32, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Given up on God
Does anyone else feel that this phrase -- even though it's a semi-quote from the referenced article -- is somewhat un-NPOV? The only replacement I could think of is "non-religious" but that's quite possibly inaccurate. Yes/No/Suggestions? -- Shannonr (talk) 06:24, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Pronunciation, again
Buscemi himself mentions his name in the youtube interview with Henry Rollins, at, at 5:32 of 7:14. He pronounces it Boo-shemi rather than Boo-semi. (Rollins says Boo-semi at the beginning.) I guess we should go with Buscemi's version. :-) Jayen <i style="color:#FFBF00;">466</i> 01:00, 6 January 2009 (UTC)


 * It bears mentioning that Steve himself is far too used to this pronunciation from other people. My mistake. He actually admits mispronouncing it in the interview on Regis. Challenger l (talk) 12:08, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

On Twitter
Steve Buscemi is not on Twitter, is just a guy who has the domain and is playing to be Steve Buscemi. By the way, I feel sorry for the article, Buscemi deserves something better like the spanish wikipedia...--190.64.103.34 (talk) 23:25, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Model for the gollum in "Lord of the Rings"
Is it true that the gollum in "Lord of the Rings" was modeled after Steve Buscemi? Has anyone else heard this rumor? Shouldn't Buscemi get some kind of royalties?Sengui (talk) 03:51, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

NO.--190.64.109.8 (talk) 22:42, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

Pronunciation, Yet Again
Per a 2007 NPR interview, Mr. Buscemi pronounces his name with an "s" sound, not an "sh". He's ok with other people using the popular pronunciation though.

Note that in the Rollins interview which Jayen provided, he is quoting what other people were saying about him when he pronounces it "Booshemi".

Nick Number (talk) 02:54, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

Who cares how he pronounce it? The right pronunciation is with "SH" and that's it.--190.64.121.230 (talk) 17:57, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

So, so summarize, your contention is SH=it.

Nick Number (talk) 19:06, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

It's an ITALIAN surname. It's OK if you're an... if you ignore that, BUT do not try to spread wrong facts.--190.64.125.145 (talk) 18:06, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

I don't understand your second sentence. This article is not about the surname Buscemi in general, but about a specific person. The only pertinent fact is how that person pronounces it. If you have a citation showing that he pronounces it boo-SHEM-ee (when not quoting others) then please provide it. Nick Number (talk) 19:14, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

"The only pertinent fact is how that person pronounces it" No, it is not. The "pertinent" fact is the real fact, and the real fact is that he's italian descent and doesn't matter how he pronounce it or want to pronounce it, there is a right pronounciation of "Buscemi" and is only one, and Steve Buscemi himself knows it.

"If you have a citation showing that he pronounces it boo-SHEM-ee (when not quoting others) then please provide it." No. It's known that he pronounces in the wrong way. I don't need to provide nothing.--190.64.130.188 (talk) 02:45, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

Please review the following page for some guidelines: Citing sources Nick Number (talk) 05:11, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

And you, please, review the following for some guidelines: common sense (maybe you've heard of it before) --186.48.208.189 (talk) 17:36, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

I've re-worded the pronunciation text to reduce ambiguity. Nick Number (talk) 00:24, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

It's OK now. Check this link there's more info about that.--186.48.194.103 (talk) 15:07, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

Boardwalk Empire
What? No mention of his latest project with Martin Scorsese, Boardwalk Empire? Look into it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.111.233.238 (talk) 03:11, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

Remove Link to indieking.com
This website does seem to have information about Steve Buscemi but it is also loaded with banner ads and malicious seeming popups. I don't know if I should wait for a consensus or something but for now I think I will just remove the link and if someone wiser thinks it's important then they can put it back. I just wanted to leave a record of why I took it out. 70.143.91.23 (talk) 07:59, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

Buscemi eyes
Perhaps should mention the online meme of photoshopping in Buscemi eyes onto other people's faces.

http://chickswithstevebuscemeyes.tumblr.com/CrocodilesAreForWimps (talk) 14:33, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

Married
Is he married? This is kind of important info which is not in the article. Bkatcher (talk) 19:52, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
 * We don't have a reliable source. If you can find one, go ahead and add it. - Sum mer PhD  (talk) 20:40, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

Letter of appreciation...,
I am a big fan and I don't know if Mr. Buscemi reads posts at all, but I would like to tell him thank you for being someone we can relate to. Extremely talented in lots of areas, he is a "celebrity" even though he says it means nothing. It means, "A person who entertains and captivates you while not letting you take your eyes away from him." Allot of actors claim to be entertainers, but entertainers are not necessarily "celebrities." Yes, Mr. Buscemi, you are a "Celebrity," just not in general context. A true celebrity. Thank you for your contribution to films and for being more normal than your average actor. Eccentricity doesn't seem to be your forte. You are fabulous. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.176.73.233 (talk) 17:26, 10 February 2015 (UTC) I'm so pleased to be able to say that I have a letter from a Mary Dorothy Buscemi, a second grader in my elementary school P.S. 115,in Brooklyn, NY, dated January 21, 1947. It was a letter of thanks for my help with her class. I was graduating and she congratulated me. I loved those children and have kept those letters from her class all these many years. I was 14 at the time. I'm now 81. I was wondering if Mary Dorothy was related to Mr. Buscemi. As fate would have it, after I msrried, I moved to Valley Stream, and raised 4 beloved children. My oldest, Susan, attended Valley Stream Central High School at the same time as Mr. Buscemi, having been born in 1959. After that I understand Mr. Buscemi was a fireman. Many members of the Stickevers family have worked in the NYC fire dept. And it was in Brooklyn that I first saw a relative of the Stickevers family, Jimmy Fallon. Small world!Mrs. Dorothy Stickevers dstickevers@gmail.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.85.137.251 (talk) 22:25, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

Seinfeld Audition
On the Tonight Show August 7, 2015 Buscemi said he never auditioned for George Costanza on Seinfeld. It seems useless to have a section dedicated to something that is not factually correct. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.76.225.147 (talk) 03:33, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

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Semi-protected edit request on 15 October 2016
There should be a mention of Buscemi's role as an indie film maker in Living in Oblivion, 1995. That makes totally sense with his "character" as an indie actor... and filmmaker.

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Steve Buscemi appeared in 1989 film Lonesome Dove as Luke. 2601:249:501:909:2DD7:9FF7:B26C:6789 (talk) 01:29, 30 April 2017 (UTC)
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28 Days
I am a big fan of both Steve Buscemi and Julia Roberts. Why does their file, "28 Days" not show in their film roles? Thanks. Terrence Cook

Verification as Pirate Friday Club Founder
Under “Early life and education,” I noticed this puzzling paragraph:

“In his late teenage years, Steve often wrote short stories about pirates and often longed for a life on the seas. Through this obsession, Steve started the Pirate Friday club. This club met every 6 weeks to bring forward modern day pirating. This would be anti-violence and had a set amount of kind-hearted rules to adhere to. This club would also promote creative writing and craft-based workshops in schools around the globe [12].”

The link led to this page: https://mateysahoy.wixsite.com/pirate-friday-club

The website just uses a random promotional photo of Steve Buscemi and lists him as the founder/CEO and all of the other employees are just stock photos with generic names. Not to mention, the premise of the site itself is just weird (it promotes “pirate educational workshops” and charges you a small fee of $80 if you want to join?).

Is there any way to verify this? Other than the website itself (which leads right back to Buscemi’s Wikipedia). FlushingGirl1996 (talk) 16:35, 23 March 2024 (UTC)


 * I've taken it out. It was only added last week and sounds very dubious, if not a deliberate hoax. Nthep (talk) 16:44, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Wow! Thank you for your prompt response to this little bit of weirdness! FlushingGirl1996 (talk) 16:48, 23 March 2024 (UTC)