And the Emmy goes to…

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… That bastard Respect and talented comedian (grumble, grumble) Tim Conway, for his guest appearance on 30 Rock. Buscemi was up for the same award, but you know how it goes. Same song every year. Well, there’s always the Oscars.

Buscemi, Trump kick off 9-11 charity trading

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Today, it seems, is do-gooder day at TISB. It is also Septmeber 11, hence:

BGC Charity Day is held every year on September 11th to commemorate those lost in the World Trade Center tragedy.

BGC Partners donated 100% of all trading commissions from September 11 - for the past three years - to dozens of worthy charities. Who is BGC?

BGC Partners, Inc. (Nasdaq: BGCP) is a leading global full-service inter-dealer broker, specializing in the trading of financial instruments and related derivatives products. BGC Partners provides integrated voice, hybrid, and fully electronic execution and other brokerage services to some of the world’s largest and most credit worthy banks, broker-dealers, investment banks and investment firms for a broad range of global financial products, including fixed income securities, foreign exchange, equity derivatives, credit derivatives, futures, structured products and other instruments.

People helping people, giving without taking, being a part of something bigger than yourself: on my best days, I imagine that’s what this country is really about. September 11, 2001 taught America a lot about what it meant to suffer and stick together. Seven years later, I sometimes sit and wonder where all that awareness went. Swallowed up by government lies and empty threats, I suspect.

Good on you, BGC Partners. What a tremendous thing to do.

Buscemi on Donny

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It’s probably the film that I’ve done that people have seen the most.

Buscemi interview! And with Rolling Stone, too. (Apparently also from the future, since as of this moment, the article is dated September 4. Sweet.)

Don’t worry, I checked the forecast and it ain’t raining God’s Wrath. As few and far between as these come, you never can be too sure. B’s take on the bumbling odd-man Donny in The Big Lebowski is not to be missed. I suppose this has something to do with that 10 Anniversary Edition coming out in a few weeks?

Filming starts on St. John

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Looks like Olive Productions, the company formed by buddies Buscemi and Stan Tucci, is ready to crank out its first classic. Filming has begun on St. John of Las Vegas, an adaptation of Dante’s ‘Inferno’.

Buscemi handles the role of an ex-gambler who’s being trained by a maverick insurance fraud investigator

The movie is also a first for financer IndieVest, and features Emily Mortimer, Peter Dinklage (ohmigod), Romany Malco and John Cho.

Top Ten Criterion

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Discovered first by the wonderful Mr. Shh, I am pleased to bring you My Top Ten Criterion by Steve Buscemi. A taste:

The Honeymoon Killers:

I once worked with Tony on an episode of the TV series Homicide and excitedly told him he had one of my favorite lines in one of my favorite movies. After sizing me up for a few seconds, he replied, “Well, that would have to be the Honeymoon Killers, and the line of course is, ‘Valley Stream. Valley Stream. What a joke!’”

On Short Cuts, and director Bob Altman:

I was lucky enough to get to work with him [Altman] on Kansas City, and briefly on Tanner on Tanner, and will always be inspired by his vision, independence, and generosity of spirit. About Kansas City he once said to me, “I don’t care if this film makes a nickel—I want it to be successful on my terms.” Then gesturing toward himself and me, he added, “Our terms.” We’ll miss you forever, Bob.

See all ten, plus Buscemi’s commentary, over at The Criterion Collection.

Buscemi gets Emmy nod

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The 60th Annual Emmy Award nominations were laid out today, and Buscemi received a nod for his role as the skeezy PI Len on 30 Rock. The episode (screencaps here) was a riot. 30 Rock received a total of 17 well deserved nominations.

Get your voodoo dolls out, kids, it’s time to get to work.

Patriotic Punk

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Steve Buscemi, who was in the Jim Jarmusch movie Mystery Train with Strummer, confesses that he was just as nervous to be working with the rocker as he would be working with Brando or De Niro.

A somewhat sad but overall touching write-up of Mr. Strummer and The Future is Unwritten, hitting stores July 8. Apparently he was quite the American patriot, despite being a Brit by birth and a punk by design.

Master Class with Steve Buscemi and David Simon

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Join John Pierson as he speaks to two of America’s finest minds: Steve Buscemi and David Simon.

Rock on! Released June 29, this edition of Master Class was recorded at SXSW in Austin, TX.  Visit the Public Radio site to listen in and view a slideshow of the interview.

Win Clash DVD + CD

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Scatter O’ Light is giving away a copy of The Future is Unwritten plus the soundtrack to one lucky reader. The requirements are painfully simple:

if you want to win: leave a comment using the word “clash” in a sentence.

Go on then, sign up! Winners will be announced July 3, so you’d better get on it fast.

Igor’s New Poster

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Those lucky bums over at Cinematical get everything first. Like this, for example:

Legit, respectable websites get to have all the fun (and we’re very grateful, too).

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