I did not see this coming

Gary Busey, formerly only intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually bankrupt, is now financially so as well. Eamon Murphy reports the gory details at the tax center,* a previously unknown to me site that seems to get its kicks pissing on the down and out, for it takes Busey’s distress as an excuse to piss on 11 more busted celebrities (including, of course, both MC Hammer and Anna Nicole Smith).

Busey’s manager, who apparently is not big enough to get his name in the papers but who definitely seems to be a sport, spins Gary’s action this way:

“As with many great American institutions, i.e., General Motors, American Airlines, and many others who have utilized the strategic business tool called bankruptcy, Gary Busey’s filing is the final chapter in a process that began a few years ago of jettisoning the litter of past unfortunate choices, associations, events and circumstances that visited themselves upon this great American icon, to enable the start of a new and clear path to peace, happiness and success with his career and his wonderful new soulmate, Steffanie, and their son, Luke.”

Good luck, Steffanie! But definitely keep your guard up!

Afterwords
You think I’m snide? Murphy finishes his piece this way:

“In any discussion of Busey’s possible status as a great American icon, it’s probably worth mentioning his performance in the 2006 Turkish film Valley of the Wolves: Iraq, which portrayed the U.S. occupation of Iraq as a massive criminal enterprise [AV NOTE: which it sort of was ]. Busey played a Jewish doctor who extracts organs from injured Iraqis and sells them to rich Westerners in New York City, London and Tel Aviv. It was, at the time, the most expensive film in Turkish cinematic history. But it seems like Busey couldn’t stretch his Turkish lira very far.”