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- PEOPLE, Page 91What a New York Story
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- By GINIA BELLAFANTE
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- For struggling New York actors, a "normal" job is
- spritzing cologne at Macy's or delivering Mylar birthday
- balloons to small children. But when STEVE BUSCEMI was creating
- a name for himself on the lower Manhattan theater scene of the
- '80s, he took an even more unconventional route to pay the rent:
- he became a fire fighter. "It was the only job I've ever had
- that compared with the real high I get when I'm acting," says
- Buscemi. With two critically praised films out simultaneously,
- the talented actor must be soaring these days. Father of a
- two-year-old son, he has quietly become a prominent face in the
- independent-film world. In the new low-budget comedy In the
- Soup, Buscemi stars as an aspiring moviemaker who has lots of
- trouble interesting anyone in an esoteric 500-page script. And
- in the grittier flick Reservoir Dogs, Buscemi does quite a job
- portraying an oddly logical thief and killer who seems to have
- a deeply rooted problem with tipping. Moviegoers clearly owe a
- big thank-you to the Big Apple's fire department for never
- naming Buscemi its chief.
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