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After decades toiling away playing one creepy, odd-ball, murderous character after another, Golden Globe winning actor Steve Buscemi finds himself in a role few could have predicted: leading man Nucky Thompson in HBO’s hit series Boardwalk Empire.
Brian Williams visits the Brooklyn set of Boardwalk Empire’s 1920s Atlantic City and talks to Buscemi about his looks and getting whacked.
Buscemi tells Williams, "I was never that conscious of my looks, I don't know why, until I started, you know, reading about my looks. And I was like, 'Is that what I-- do I look like that?'"
Editor's Note: Brian Williams full profile on Buscemi airs Thurs, Sept. 20 at 10pm/9c on NBC's Rock Center with Brian Williams.











Before Shakespeare - This story reminded me of the rung in society actors held before Shakespeare. Not producing food, shelter, clothing, or emptying camber, pots, the idea of deifying actors with a segment like this would have been unheard of. It would have been met with complete disregard, much as I met it. Illusion is not worthy of reverence, yet you continue to glorify play actors, adults play-acting, while America suffers. Your job, and his, is much like an infant playing in a sandbox, with the exact same relevance. Sell the cameras - give it "directly" to the poor and maybe you might be relevant for the first time in your lives - seriously - do it.
President Obama hasn't done a lot of the things he claimed he would. His accomplishments are lots and lots of talk and no action. Your biased reporting and supporting him is despicable.
He was too busy campaigning to protect our Ambassador and then lied and had his people lie about what really happened. Over the past 4 years, he has let America down, taken us to a debt level that is multiplying at a daily rate as high as the yearly rate two years ago, and lies - then he accuses Romney of lying - NOT! He keeps saying that Gov Romney does not tell us his plan - but Gov Romney outlines his plan and then Obama spends his time blasting Romney instead of telling us his plan. I don't see anywhere that he has a plan to do anything different than the disaster of the past four years.
America is desperately in need of a leader -not an orator. Please report the news - fair and unbiased.