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Shari's Faves

Buscemi Film: Trees Lounge

Non-Buscemi Film: Memento

Other Actors: Al Pacino, Jack Nicholson, Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe, Jake Gyllenhaal

Actresses: Rosie Perez, Thora Birch, Patricia Arquette, Debi Mazar, Joan Cusack

Directors: Joel & Ethan Coen, John Waters, Martin Scorsese, Terry Zwigoff, Steve Buscemi

Screenwriters: Joel & Ethan Coen, Quentin Tarantino

Writers (other): Jonathan Lethem, Kurt Vonnegut, Dave Barry

TV: Most reality series, Court TV, MTV, HBO

Music: Alternative Rock (Stand, Drowning Pool, Static X, Disturbed, Godsmack, etc.)

About the Webmaster

Interested in film from the time she was a young girl, Shari dabbled in the production of 8mm silent films using friends and family as subjects and actors. She later went on to produce her high school's first ever video yearbook. After graduation, she found herself lured to college in California through advice from noted screenwriter Carl Gottlieb (Jaws, Clueless, The Jerk). As an English major/cinema minor, Shari attended USC and was educated in the ways of the movie business both by formal instruction and work on student films. Life in L.A. led to several brushes with the weird world of celebrity, including a year working for Bette Midler as a live-in nanny for her then 2 year old daughter Sophie.

After four years of schmoozing, a stint in stand-up comedy, hobnobbing with wannabees and nothing but sunny, 80 degree weather interrupted only by 2 earthquakes, Shari decided that LA-LA-land was not for her and returned home to the east coast to pursue a career in corporate video production. The dry world of high-tech corporate videos for the likes of Digital Equipment Corporation and IBM soon grew deadly boring. Shari then made the sideways career jump into advertising copywriting for the firm of Ingalls, Quinn & Johnson with high profile clients such as MCI, Ocean Spray and TJ MAXX.

Career soon gave way to motherhood, and Shari kissed the corporate world goodbye for what will hopefully be forever in 1993. The years since have seen the pursuit of several other creative outlets such as fashion and jewelry design, but the need to write finally pulled Shari back to the computer, where she will undoubtedly stay for the rest of her natural life or until her eyesight finally gives out, whichever comes first.

Shari's interest in the career of Steve Buscemi was preceded by her interest in independent film which dates back to college in the 80's. The edgy films of John Waters, the Coen brothers, Spike Lee and later Jim Jarmusch, Alexandre Rockwell, Tom DiCillo and Quentin Tarantino always satisfied her appetite for the dark, the unusual and the often unseen side of life. Slowly she began to realize this one actor, Buscemi, kept popping up in many of her favorite films. Time and time again he proved that he could deliver a dead-on characterization with either perfect comedic timing or just the right amount of honest vulnerability to make the audience believe. We didn't just believe him, we liked him. Even as a serial killer, we felt empathy. Even as a schizoid womanizer, we cheered him on. Buscemi is an acting paradox. Somehow he manages to be despicable yet likable, manic and cool all at the same time. And best of all, he is consistent -- consistently professional, consistently applaudable in every role, even when the movie as a whole fails to deliver. For these reasons as well as the fact that this relatively young man still has a lot of career and a lot of promise ahead, this website will remain an ongoing tribute to his prolific and growing body of work. The best is yet to come, and we can't wait to see it.