Steve Buscemi
Martin Scorsese to Direct Yet Another Movie
It's official: Martin Scorsese doesn't want anyone else directing movies in Hollywood. Production Weekly is reporting (via /Film) that the Oscar winner is set to helm the poorly titled Falcon's Tale. The film would focus a criminal who gets busted for drugs and then cuts a deal with the government to go inside a maximum security mental institution to find out the whereabouts of a serial killer's victims. Yawn. Falcon's Tale is supposedly based on the life story of James Keene, the son of a police chief who wrote an article this past summer for Playboy about his misadventures. Screenwriter William Monahan, who won his Oscar for adapting The Departed, has been with the project since the spring and The Departed producer Graham King on board as well, making this a happy reunion if Mr. Scorsese actually decides to direct. However that is a big "if". read more »
Buscemi, Tucci Team For Production Company
Stage vets and native New Yorkers Steve Buscemi, and Stanley Tucci are starting a film, TV and commercial production outfit. The Observer's Andrew Sarris included Mr. Buscemi's Interview in his favorite films of the year list and considers him "something of a movie legend for his almost total lack of narcissism." The project, called Olive Productions, already has a number of works in development, including Unto the Sons, an adaptation for HBO of Gay Talese’s bestselling nonfiction book about the mob, according to Variety. read more »
Beauty and the Journalist—But Who’s the Real Beast?
Buscemi brilliant, Sienna shines in homage to slain filmmaker Theodor van Gogh’s movie about star persecuted by paparazzi. read more »
Garden Variety Land-Use Battles
Everybody's Happy in the Garden of Eden
The Brooklyn Papers publishes this photo of two fans of Atlantic Yards, state economic chief Charles Gargano and Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, standing near one of the proposed development's celebrity foes, actor Steve Buscemi. The occasion was last week's unveiling of their "leaves" (well, for Gargano and Buscemi, not for Markowitz) on the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Celebrity Path, a down-home version of the stars on Hollywood Boulevard.
The woman in the picture is Pamela Wasserstein, niece of the late playwright Wendy, who also was honored with a leaf but whose position on the controversial complex is not discussed in the article. Please tell us, What would've Wendy thought?
-Matthew Schuerman (via No Land Grab) read more »
