In a move that seems inconceivable for a man who’s starred in at least two low-budget movies a year since the 80s and to my knowledge is the only celebrity to have appeared on both Celebrity Apprentice and Celebrity Wife Swap, Gary Busey has filed for bankruptcy. Busey’s claim, filed yesterday, states that he has less than $50,000 in assets, while he owes between $500,000 and a million dollars to a variety of creditors, including the IRS, Wells Fargo, L.A. County Waterworks Districts, a storage company, and possibly a woman who sued him for allegedly attacking her at an airport in Tulsa. Women, can’t live with ‘em, can’t headbutt ‘em at a baggage claim.

So many debts, but does a briefcase filled with highlighters and spare change count for nothing?? These markers once belonged to the Shah of Iran, Butthorn!

67-year-old Busey filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in California yesterday. Busey checked the box showing he has less than $50,000 in assets … and somewhere between $500,000 and $1,000,000 in various debts.

Interestingly, we shot Gary out in Malibu on Monday — a day before he filed — and he didn’t seem all that fazed by the whole bankruptcy thing … dancing his face off in a parking lot (video below). [TMZ]

His manager Ron Sampson wrote in a statement the filing provides Busey “a new and clear path” to personal and career success. [AP]

Busey later added, “That’s right, I’m ready to turn over a new leaf. I’ve put all my financial affairs in the capable hands of my manager, Ron Sampson, the smartest goddamned St. Bernard I’ve ever met. C’MERE BOY, COME AND GET SOME TACOS!”

Read the rest of this entry »

The other day Vince and I were making S’mores and chatting about life, when he pointed out that 2011 was the 20th anniversary of the end of the Cold War, that era in world history when everyone lived in pants-crapping fear that the U.S. and Russia were going to destroy us all. More importantly than global genocide and the threat of a nuclear holocaust, the Cold War had an undeniable impact on the movie industry, most notably in creating one of the easiest and most overused plot devices of the last 50 years.

Obviously, the Cold War gave us classics like Dr. Strangelove, The Manchurian Candidate, and the entire James Bond franchise. It also gave us The Hunt for Red October and Tom Clancy’s career, as well as Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and wherever else Shia LeBeouf and his grandfather Harrison Ford take us. It gave us The Manhattan Project, The Good Shepherd, Thirteen Days, Top Gun, Good Night, and Good Luck, and even Salt, which was a modern reminder of just how hilariously off-the-wall – and flat out terrible – some Cold War films were.

In fact, those are the films that I want to celebrate – the movies that both embraced the terrifying nightmare of global war and laughed in the face of four decades of silent terror. Because without them, we’d probably all be living in mountain bunkers or adapting to our tentacles.

Read the rest of this entry »

Gary Busey recently sat down for an interview with Empire magazine, and I thought long and hard about including just this next excerpt without context or comment:

On weight loss: “A good way to lose weight is to put salt on your ass and go to a petting zoo. But stay away from goats because I’ve seen them fornicate with a mail box.”

But in the end, it’s Gary Busey we’re talking about here, and I couldn’t very well deny you the rest of these quotables:

Read the rest of this entry »

Piranha 3DD has a trailer and you can watch it below. The gist of it is that the piranhas have invaded a water park this time. Yes, a water park. At least this way, you can sterilize your bite wounds with all the Mexican pee. Also, David Hasselhoff is there for some reason. Oh, and Ving Rhames has a gun for a leg. This looks good.

Read the rest of this entry »

Yesterday when I posted Quigley, the movie about Gary Busey getting reincarnated as a dog, commenter Victorsueiro brought to our attention this press interview about it with Gary Busey, which might be even better. Says Busey, in his most gravelly intense voice:

“This movie is about God playing a trick on you, sending you back as a Pomeranian so you can make it work for your family. … This is an incredible transformation that Archie goes through… Well I got news for you. Gary Busey went through the same thing.”

There you have it, Gary Busey thinks God sent him back to Earth as a Pomeranian. Explains a lot, doesn’t it?

MORNING LINKS
Here Are The Nick Offerman High School Yearbook Photos Ron Swanson Fans Have Been Clamoring For |UPROXX|

The Most Ridiculous Covers of Superman’s Girlfriend Lois Lane |Gamma Squad|

The Dugout: Bienvenido Oz Miami |With Leather|

Pic via LaraGrey

Creepily Specific, Poorly-Made ‘Simpsons’ Cosplay to Haunt Your Dreams |Warming Glow|

Reebok Broke: Company Agrees To Pay $25 Million In Toning Shoe Refunds |Smoking Section|

Awesome Quotes From 11 Famous Writers On Censorship |Buzzfeed|

The Top 10 Highest Paid Actresses on TV |AOL TV|

Popeye’s Scoop-Shaped Dippable Fried Chicken Is a Real Thing |The Daily What|

Not surprisingly, Andy Rooney out of context sounds a lot like Andy Rooney in context. |HolyTaco|

How the New Zealand Police Deal With Drunk College Kids |Brobible|

Drunk guy cuts off his own penis with a box cutter. Silly drunk guy, *box* cutters are for girls. |NYCStool|

“Peaches” models a hand bra, sand bra. |GorillaMask|

Chris Brown allegedly was banging a dude. |TheSuperficial|

The week’s top 10 animal videos. YAY, ANIMAL VIDEOS! |Videogum|

7 Movie Parents Who should’ve been reported to CPS. |ScreenJunkies|

Meet the fish that eats itself to death. |MentalFloss|

28 Hi-Def Calvin and Hobbes Wallpapers |Unreality|

NOMINATE for Comments of the Week. FAN US on Facebook. SUBSCRIBE to the Frotcast.