Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Steve Booshehmee Lists Sunset Strip House

SELLER: Steve Buscemi
LOCATION: Los Angeles, CA
PRICE: $6,250,000
SIZE: 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms
DESCRIPTION: Sited on one of the premier promontories above the Sunset Strip, this European Architectural feels as if it floats among the stars. All major room overlook a dramatic pool and grassy lawn to an unbroken, unobstructed sweep of view across the Los Angeles basin to the Pacific Ocean. The just completed renovation and expansion have created a remarkable two-story residence which combines contemporary luxury with a respect for the details of a distinguished origin.

YOUR MAMAS NOTES: While Your Mama was sipping gin spiked egg nog with the Dr. Cooter's family we received a missive from Big Dave over at Celebrity Address Aerial who let us know that snaggle-toothed actor/director Steve Buscemi–that's pronounced boo-SHEM-ee–listed a house high above Los Angeles' Sunset Strip with a sky high asking price of $6,250,000.

Mister Buscemi, well known for playing creeps and criminals on screen (The Sopranos, Miller's Crossing, Fargo, The Big Lebowski) also has a handful of nice credits on his IMDB for directing multiple episodes of Oz, The Sopranos, 30 Rock and, most recently, 4 episodes of the wicked and wonderful Nurse Jackie on the HBO.

Anyhoo, property records are a wee bit confusing on this one to Your Mama's holiday hacked and gin saturated mind, but as best as we can tell Mister Buscemi–a dead ringer for John Waters in a dark alley–bought the property in July 0f 2006 for an undisclosed amount of money. It could also be that he's owned the property since sometime in the 1990s. We don't know. The property consists of at least three–and possibly four–adjacent parcels sited on a small but significant promontory allowing for knee buckling views of the glittery lights of Tinseltown from downtown to the Pacific Ocean.

Property records show the recently rehabbed residence was originally built in 1942 and measures 1,956 square feet with 2 bedrooms and 2 poopers. However, listing information indicates the "European Architectural" includes 3 bedrooms and 3 poopers. Your Mama does can't say with certainty why the discrepancy, but we suspect it might have something to do with the recent renovation and expansion mentioned in listing information.

Sitting at the very tip of a hair pin curve on a cul-de-sac off dizzingly swervy Sunset Plaza Drive and fronted by an itty-bitty motor court and 2-car garage, the little-windowed front facade gives few clues to the exploding views that slap you in the damn face at the back of the house which is all floor to ceiling sliding glass doors that open to the back yard.

Listing photos don't reveal much of the interior spaces but, let's be honestly children, whomever buys Mister Booshehmee's Sunset Strip property at whatever price it eventually sells for probably will care little about the interior spaces with it's polished and reddish wood floors, 2 fireplaces and oddly configured but well appointed kitchen. For better or worse and like it or not, in Los Angeles, a house like this is all about that glittering carpet of lights and the small but flat back yard with its infinity edged plunge pool, spa, fire pit and patch of grass just big enough for a couple long bodied bitches.

From the looks of things, Your Mama would guess–and hope–that Mister Booshehmee and family have already moved on to bigger and better digs since there appears to be little in the way of day-core other than a couple of Barcelona chairs, a surfboard shaped glass dining room table with six white chairs and a trio of stainless steel stools pulled up to the breakfast counter in the kitchen. Besides, that orchid sitting on the coffee table in the living room is a dead damn ringer that this place is staged. Or at least, that's what Your Mama thinks.

Property records also indicate that Mister Buscemi owns a 2 bedroom and 2 pooper condo in a tawdry complex on the western side of Las Vegas that was purchased in October of 2006 for $200,000 as well as a house sitting on just more than an acre not too far from posh Park City, UT in the unfortunately named Heber City. It also appears, according to property records, that Mister Buscemi also owns house in the Park Slope neighborhood of his native Brooklyn, NY. which was purchased way back in June of 1997 for $579,000. But honestly butter beans, we're not sure of these things.

18 comments:

Edie Schmeedy said...

right on, mama. that house is SO STAGED. that rug in the kitchen is from Target, I had one just like it. And the black chairs in the living room, they are everywhere! John Waters in a dark alley, indeed!

Footy said...

How can you discuss Mr. Buscemi without mentioning the ground-breaking and heart-wrenching 1987 film "Parting Glances" which dealt with the impact of AIDS on the gay scene in Manhattan?

As for the house -- is this some kind of post-modern deconstruction of a fairy tale tudor house? Frank Gehry covered this already in the '80s...

Madam Pince said...

The four-footed crew and I like this house.

Rotters said...

I like it

StPaulSnowman said...

I am hoping to see Mr. Buscemi visit smarmy Dr. Sam, the cosmetic dentist, on Million Dollar Listing. Maybe Josh could arrange an acceptable swap.......a nice little house for a whole lot of dental rehabilitation. As a resident of the midwest, I still have a hard time thinking the twinkling carpet thing can be worth six million. The house is barely more than cracker box.

Anonymous said...

THIS is a house.

Anonymous said...

more pictures here: http://www.matthewmorgus.idxco.com/idx/5187/photoGallery.php?idxID=240&listingID=09416531

Anonymous said...

I've seen the house... and take my word for it: GAWD-AWFUL!!! Amazing view... beautiful pool... the rest is a pile of poo!

Crowley said...

The kitchen is killing me. The placement of the fridge is making my chest constrict in advance of an anxiety attack.

Otherwise, jaw-dropping views and decent living spaces from what I can see. I'll be curious to see what he gets for it.

Anonymous said...

actually, it's pronounced Boo-Semm-ey. He even parodied the mispronunciations when he hosted SNL

gayhooker said...

FYI: I'm kept at the Heber City estate

lil' gay boy said...

Ghastly. And to think we grew up in the same town...

Oy.

An architectural interpretation of his dental challenges...

As for "..."European Architectural..." well, that must be the latest realespeak for fugly.

And for God's sake, do not wander off the small but flat back yard whilst admiring the "carpet of lights" or you'll find your ass in Dane Cook's backyard –––– knee-deep in dog shit, no doubt.

Anonymous said...

Really Mama... Eggnog and ... gin???

Miss Candy Darling said...

He also apparently owns a house in upstate New York, somewhere near Rosendale. A friend of mine lives near him. And she seconds the Boo-Semm-ey pronunciation.

Anonymous said...

I am not sure about the house and its price, but the views are magnificent.

Anonymous said...

Hey Mama, believe it or not there is another Steve Booshehmee in this town with a better grill and no acting experience who is selling this house.

Anonymous said...

Oh mama, you are so clever. The phonetic pronunciation thing is so lame.

rüya tabirleri said...

right on, mama. that house is SO STAGED. that rug in the kitchen is from Target, I had one just like it. And the black chairs in the living room, they are everywhere! John Waters in a dark alley, indeed!