Steve Buscemi may look nothing like Enoch "Nucky Johnson," the real-life ringleader of Atlantic City, New Jersey, in the 1920s, but the Prohibition-era HBO series Boardwalk Empire is otherwise virtually indistinguishable from its real-life counterpart. "Nucky" Johnson (known as Thompson in "The Waterfront"), who turned it into a haven for drunks, gamblers and prostitutes.
Source: New York Daily News