(I found this image here.)
An explanation: Since the name Gary is going extinct, I thought it incumbent upon me to celebrate more notable Garys than myself. This is the twelfth of a series!
Gary Busey is an American Academy-award-nominated (!) actor. He has perhaps become more famous for his erratic behavior & weird way of expressing himself than he ever did for his acting.
When did you first become aware of him? I think it was when he played Buddy Holly in The Buddy Holly Story (for which he was nominated for an Academy Award). That was in 1978, so I was ten. He seemed too large to be Buddy Holly to me.
Did you ever see the film? No, never did.
Did you like him as an actor? Except for that movie, I can't think of a single film that he was in that was made notable by his presence or acting.
Really? Yeah, looking over his IMDb page, I am struck by how I have barely noticed him in movies at all. I might remember his performance in Law & Order. That's about it.
I think I've noticed his son in movies more often than him. Maybe because it's weird to see someone that looks so much like Gary Busey.
Do you think of him as mainly a crazy celebrity? Yes. You can thank The Soup for that. The Gary Busey clips were always funny & not a little bit disturbing.
You have a two- or three-degrees of separation with him, don't you? I do! He was married to a girl I went to high school with, whose name is Tiani Warden. I don't think she & I ever spoke, but I do recall my little brother had a crush on her. She was in his class, I believe. The rumor was that after high school she became a stripper, & that's how she met Busey, although the two of them became born-again Christians at some point together.
I just looked at pictures of them, & I recognize her name but not her. We must not have known each other at all. But wow! He was over twenty years older than she!
Is his name really Gary? It's his middle name. William Gary Busey.
He was born in 1944, so it's Gary Cooper, isn't it? Dollars to donuts, it is.
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