mrowl
11/14/2005, 07:18 PM
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There's a great story on Steve Buscemi in the 11/14 issue of The New Yorker. The first half of it is spent describing Buscemi's working-class childhood and his wayward adolescence -- feeling lost, disconnected, confused. There's lots of great stuff: the early-80s days when he became a part of a thriving avant-garde performance scene, working and hanging out with everybody from Julian Schnabel to Willem Dafoe to They Might Be Giants; his time at Engine Company 55 and the days after 9/11.
But for Sopranos fans, it's the second half of the story that's the real dish. The writer tags along as Buscemi directs an episode, "Mr. And Mrs. Sacrimoni Request," of the upcoming season. In it, Johnny Sack, who's in prison awaiting trial, is allowed out by the Feds for six hours to attend his daughter's funeral. Among the teaser details we learn: Tony attends the wedding having just gotten out of the hospital and is bearing scars from whatever it is that happened to him. (The writer asks Buscemi how Tony got the scars and he says "If we told you, you wouldn't get out of here alive.") Johnny Sack disgraces himself by breaking down and crying when the Feds tell him it's time to go and Phil Leotardo smells blood in the water and starts talking about how Johnny has lost it.
There's a great story on Steve Buscemi in the 11/14 issue of The New Yorker. The first half of it is spent describing Buscemi's working-class childhood and his wayward adolescence -- feeling lost, disconnected, confused. There's lots of great stuff: the early-80s days when he became a part of a thriving avant-garde performance scene, working and hanging out with everybody from Julian Schnabel to Willem Dafoe to They Might Be Giants; his time at Engine Company 55 and the days after 9/11.
But for Sopranos fans, it's the second half of the story that's the real dish. The writer tags along as Buscemi directs an episode, "Mr. And Mrs. Sacrimoni Request," of the upcoming season. In it, Johnny Sack, who's in prison awaiting trial, is allowed out by the Feds for six hours to attend his daughter's funeral. Among the teaser details we learn: Tony attends the wedding having just gotten out of the hospital and is bearing scars from whatever it is that happened to him. (The writer asks Buscemi how Tony got the scars and he says "If we told you, you wouldn't get out of here alive.") Johnny Sack disgraces himself by breaking down and crying when the Feds tell him it's time to go and Phil Leotardo smells blood in the water and starts talking about how Johnny has lost it.