Gary Busey: then and now

Busey, 1978: nominated for an Oscar.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N50WSWxIYk4]

 

Busey, 2011: advertising cheap Korean cars with a giant hamster.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWL2A8Lw7Os]

 

It’s easy to chuckle at Hollywood’s favourite mentally unstable actor, but his fall from promising actor to unpredictable firecracker is really pretty tragic when you learnt that suffered a pretty devastating motorcycle accident in 1988 which left him with permanent brain damage. Suddenly that Family Guy pisstake doesn’t seem so funny…