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Posted: 10/7/2011
In the days following Gary Busey s now legendary performance art displays before and after last weekend s Academy Awards, a growing number of people in the media and online have voiced their concerns over the propriety of his behavior. As you will remember, during the E! pre-show red carpet telecast, Busey accosted Laura Linney and Jennifer Garner (to whom he may have said something about neck-biting or blood-drinking or whatever), then continued to rant and rave the Gospel of Gary into a stunned Ryan Seacrest s microphone (though he later offered a rambling and somewhat terrifying apology), before finally wandering off in hopes of finding Philip Seymour Hoffman and devouring his flesh.
And now we find the video above, in which Busey is confronted with an 11 year-old teen reporter named Grace who wants to ask him about troubled starlets for her celebrity website StarzLife.com. Busey repeatedly claims to not understand what she s talking about, then in a rare moment of clarity calls Paris Hilton a disgraceful liar, and just generally behaves in his usual surly Vietman vet on acid demeanor. People are already up in arms about this clip, saying Busey is being abusive (or in Internet cleverspeak, A Busey ) to the girl, but I think those people are forgetting a few very important points.
1) 11 year-old girls shouldn t have celebrity websites to begin with - the fact that she does is crazier than anything Gary Busey has ever said or done.
2) He s GARY F*CKING BUSEY. Has the whole world somehow managed to miss the fact that The Buse has been certifiably bonkers since, I don t know, he delivered all his lines to Steven Seagal s ponytail back in early-90 s action classic Under Siege? For years he s been a walking carnival of violent lunatic babble, and is probably a danger to himself and to others, but that s why we love him. That s why he s beautiful. So everyone really needs to cool out, take a big sip of chillax, and just let The Buse be loose.
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