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PEOPLE, Page 91What a New York Story
By GINIA BELLAFANTE
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.