Diehard New Yorker Steve Buscemi was an independent film icon, both as a perennial favorite actor of respected filmmakers like The Coen Brothers, and as a writer and director in his own right. Throughout the decades of prolific work that followed his rise from the East Village arts boon of the 1980s, Buscemi stayed close to his roots in avant-garde arts and film. He became one of the most recognizable actors at the art houses, but also made a dent at the multiplex in quirky character roles in big budget comedies and action films. Buscemi’s predilection for off-kilter criminal minds, inept