Steve Buscemi is not a fan of the GOP

[marmar]

(Guardian UK) Dressed in dark colours and a black baseball cap, in person the 55-year-old Steve Buscemi cuts basically the same slight, rumpled figure we met a quarter-century ago in Jim Jarmusch's Mystery Train. He might be a roadie coming off a world tour. His famously exophthalmic eyes are a washed-out blue and he's tired, back home in Brooklyn after staying at his house in upstate New York. He likes to go there and hang out and do nothing, he says, maybe take a walk or do a bit of yardwork: he spent the weekend raking leaves. Self-effacing, friendly, polite, it's clear he's here under low-grade sufferance; interviews, he says in his quick, metallic, slightly strangulated way, "aren't my favourite thing to do".

He is a patient but mildly reluctant witness to his own life, but when the conversation turns to politics – with the Senate still days away from reaching a deal on the government shutdown – the reticence dissolves.

"I think the shutdown is ridiculous. I think the Republicans in Congress are holding the country hostage. I think it's criminal. I don't see why they're allowed to do it." Buscemi on politics livens up. "The Tea Party faction of the Republican party are holding the Republican party hostage. They've hijacked it. I don't understand their philosophy. I think that in their own hearts and minds there's a reason why they feel they're doing good. But I certainly don't agree with it. And I hope the shutdown effects change. I hope people remember this in the next cycle of elections." .............................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/oct/20/steve-buscemi-shutdown-elections-boardwalk-empire

[melody]

1. Only what I'd expect from that good and decent man

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He spent a week working as a firefighter -- for free -- after 9/11. And he was a huge help after Sandy laid waste.

[shawn703]

2. Funny that he plays a Republican

On Boardwalk Empire. But of course it's a crooked Republican.

[Gary 50]

3. Crooked Republican?

That's redundant.

[ChaoticTrilby]

4. One more reason to like Mr. Buscemi.

And there were plenty to begin with.

[Cha]

5. Thank you, Steve Buscemi

thanks marmar

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

6. Love this man. For fellow fans, check out his appearnace on "Who Do You Think You

Are?" That's the genealogy show. Used to be on YouTube in full, but I don't see it now.