Forget the gowns, the glitz, the sublime whimsy of host Jon Stewart.
As far as we're concerned, the standout moment of last night's Oscars came courtesy of Gary Busey.
The traditional banality of the red-carpet interview process was shattered into a thousand tiny pieces when Busey approached Ryan Seacrest, who at the time was attempting to extract a trite soundbite from Jennifer Garner and Laura Linney, and engaged Ry-Ry in a stream-of-consciousness ramble.
According to Seacrest, Busey laid the following rap on him, edited for something resembling clarity:
"You are to me, when you're working, an innocent champion of honesty ... Your heart has a way to embrace the truth in your delivery without looking like you are reading from a script .... What spontaneity is--spontaneity comes from an invisible idea that is there before the creation began."
As if to underscore his point, Busey leaned in and planted a kiss on the neck of a visibly nonplussed Garner.
Perhaps this moment was a result of Busey's skull-splitting motorcycle accident several years back. Or was Busey, who converted to Born-Again Christianity following the spill, merely spreading the Good Word, as he saw it?
Either way, we salute Busey for cutting through the pomp and circumstance to keep it real--or unreal, as it were.
As far as we're concerned, the standout moment of last night's Oscars came courtesy of Gary Busey.
The traditional banality of the red-carpet interview process was shattered into a thousand tiny pieces when Busey approached Ryan Seacrest, who at the time was attempting to extract a trite soundbite from Jennifer Garner and Laura Linney, and engaged Ry-Ry in a stream-of-consciousness ramble.
According to Seacrest, Busey laid the following rap on him, edited for something resembling clarity:
"You are to me, when you're working, an innocent champion of honesty ... Your heart has a way to embrace the truth in your delivery without looking like you are reading from a script .... What spontaneity is--spontaneity comes from an invisible idea that is there before the creation began."
As if to underscore his point, Busey leaned in and planted a kiss on the neck of a visibly nonplussed Garner.
Perhaps this moment was a result of Busey's skull-splitting motorcycle accident several years back. Or was Busey, who converted to Born-Again Christianity following the spill, merely spreading the Good Word, as he saw it?
Either way, we salute Busey for cutting through the pomp and circumstance to keep it real--or unreal, as it were.
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