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Barbarosa (1982) - trailer

A young cowboy hooks up with a legendary outlaw, and before long both are on the run from the law.

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I cannot in good conscious recommend the movie The Rage to anyone, no one should watch this movie. However the end does have arguably the best Busey death in his entire filmography, but more to the point the most incredible stunt I’ve ever seen. Mad fucking props to stuntman Chris Durand, because holy shit.

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thechurchstudio February 3rd will forever be known as “The Day that Music Died,” due to it being one of the greatest tragedies in music history in 1959. Guitarist and Oklahoma native Tommy Allsup is best known for losing a coin toss that kept him off the plane. Tommy flipped the coin to see whether he or Valens would get a seat on the plane. He lost and took a bus to the next stop on the tour. RIP Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, J.P. Richardson and Tommy who we lost in 2017.

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thechurchstudio In 1978, Gary Busey could have invited anyone to attend the Premier of The Buddy Holly Story but elected to bring his fellow friend and Tulsan, Leon Russell. In this photo, you have Gary, Leon, Maria Richwine and Maria Elena. Richwine played Buddy's wife in movie and Elena is his widow in real life.

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Gary Busey as Buddy Holly, performing True Love Ways

Gary had mentioned being fairly nervous about this song, as he never considered himself much of a crooner, and reported having an out of body experience during the performance. A feeling he had more than once while filming The Buddy Holly Story.

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Gary Busey as Buddy Holly, 1978

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be gay, do crimes. welcome to the revolution

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Silver Bullet Directed by Daniel Attias (1985)

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The last full moon of that Spring came a little more than a month before school let out for Summer vacation. Our town’s long nightmare began that night.

Silver Bullet (1985), dir. Daniel Attias

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The Cycle Begins!

🌕☠️🐺

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Texas Tornado: Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Busey

From the 2014 Empire article, Shut Up, World! Gary Busey is Talking

…enjoying pride of place above the TV, is a blown-up shot of Busey with his arm around Tommy Lee Jones. Taken on the set of Under Siege, it sees the actors in the costumes they donned for one unforgettably weird sequence: a metal-studded leather jacket and rocker headband for Jones, full drag for Busey.

“I’d read a book about the USS Missouri,” he explains. “When they crossed the Equator they had what is called ‘Pollywog Day’, where all the first-year sailors had to do unmentionable things, like walk on their knees to the conning tower, or blow bubbles in unfinished Jell-O in Morse code, making fun of their genitalia. And there was an executive officer who volunteered to be Queen of the Wogs. So I decided to dress as a woman. I took the idea to Steven Seagal, who was in a big bus he’d rented from a sheik, with a 15-foot fence around it. He said, ‘Whose idea was this?’ I said, 'Mine.’ He said, 'Okay.’ But the next day Warner Bros. called. They said, 'Gary, do not go psychic on us’ — or psycho, you know what I mean. 'This is not a movie about you as a woman. This is a movie about martial arts with Steven Seagal.’”

But Gary Busey didn’t get to be Gary Busey by listening to people who aren’t Gary Busey. “I had a 44DD stuffed, I had a Tina Turner wig and nothing was going to stop me,” he recalls. “I did the scene twice, once as Commander Krill, the male, and once as Nancy, the female — I named her Nancy because her favourite song was Rocky Raccoon. And after the scene Tommy Lee Jones started laughing so hard he couldn’t stand up. I didn’t ask him why, but I knew it had something to do with me.”

I played a raving lunatic who came in a diner and shot a lot of people. That’s like a good Tuesday for me.”

He butted heads with Seagal throughout the shoot. “Oh boy. He’s insecure. This guy went overboard with the control master. And Erika Eleniak — the little girl who was in it — I had her under my wing. He was looking to add in a love scene so he could really get down and dirty. She said to me, 'What do I do?’ And I said, 'How much time do you have when you’re running from us to find a table, lay down and play plant-the-sausage?’”

According to the autobiography, Buseyisms, Gary asked Tommy Lee Jones about “Nancy Krill” (Gary Busey’s drag named confirmed), and while it was a flat “no” from Steven “Casting Couch” Seagal, a confused maybe from director Andrew Davis, Tommy Lee Jones thought it was hilarious and encouraged Gary to pursue the idea. With the promise that he could get it on one take from Gary, Andrew Davis shot the scenes both ways, and thankfully they kept what’s arguably one of the best scenes in the movie.

[Tommy Lee Jones] was incredible. He called me one day and said, “I was just laughing [thinking of you] as a woman.” 

I said, “OK, would you like to date?” 

He said, “How could I refuse?” and hung up laughing. He is a brother. 

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Gary Busey and Teddy Jack Eddy

Before there was “Gary Busey,” there was Tulsa, Oklahoma drummer Teddy Jack Eddy. 5 of the 9 records Busey has appeared on (that I know of), he’s credited as such.

The name was given to him by artist Gailard Sartain when he started appearing as the as the hot-headed hyperkinetic know-it-all on Sartain’s late night weekend show, Dr. Mazeppa Pompazoidi’s Uncanny Film Festival and Camp Meeting in 1971.

One of Mazeppa’s fans was legendary Tulsa musician, Leon Russell. The pair met when Busey visited Russell’s recording studio, The Church, and he always referred to Busey as Teddy Jack Eddy, where he’s credited on 3 of Russell’s records, and brought him on tour as his drummer. The pair palled around as the Jac’eddie Brothers.

Russell ended up naming his first son, and Busey’s god son, Teddy Jack Russell.

I’ve heard from an extremely dubious source that Teddy Jack Eddy is one of Busey’s 14 or so alters. It wouldn’t shock me, but that will probably remain speculation. Busey snuck in a reference to Teddy Jack in The Buddy Holly Story (check out the scene where he’s fixing the neighbour kid’s guitar), and Teddy Jack Eddy and Family were thanked in the acknowledgements of the film’s soundtrack. It might just be another fun Easter egg, but who knows? Either way, Teddy Jack Eddy left an interesting fingerprint on the 1970s Tulsa art scene.