{"id":1473,"date":"2008-06-04T11:46:41","date_gmt":"2008-06-04T15:46:41","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-06-04T11:53:17","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T11:53:17","slug":"ap-gary-busey-in-talks-to-play-bo-diddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/ap-gary-busey-in-talks-to-play-bo-diddle\/","title":{"rendered":"AP: Gary Busey in Talks to Play Dual Roles in Upcoming Bo Diddley Biopic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2vLCewzg2ns?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nAP: Gary Busey to Play Dual Roles in Upcoming Bo Diddley Biopic<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By STEPHANIE ZACHAREK<br \/>\nPublished: June 4, 2008<\/p>\n<p>Only one day following the death of rock legend Bo Diddley, Universal Pictures has announced the production of a biopic tentatively entitled &#8220;Buddy Holly Stole My Pie.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pie&#8221; is based on the life of Bo Diddley (real name Charles Hardin Holley) with a focus on the firm belief by <em>some<\/em> that Buddy Holly cynically conceived and patterned his product as a &#8220;white Bo Diddley&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed the similarities are remarkable:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Both achieved success with the &#8220;Bo Diddley beat&#8221;<br \/>\n\u2022Both wore large black glasses<br \/>\n\u2022Both wore bow ties (on occasion)<br \/>\n\u2022Both played an electric guitar<br \/>\n\u2022Both were right handed<br \/>\n\u2022Both names start with a &#8220;B&#8221; and end with a &#8220;Y&#8221;<br \/>\n\u2022Bo Diddley had a chauffeur named Butler.  Holly had a butler named Chauffeur.<\/p>\n<p>Universal is reportedly in talks with Gary Busey to play the roles of both Buddy Holly and Bo Diddley.  When contacted for comment Busey said:<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G9pmuG_Wqz8?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP: Gary Busey to Play Dual Roles in Upcoming Bo Diddley Biopic By STEPHANIE ZACHAREK Published: June 4, 2008 Only one day following the death of rock legend Bo Diddley, Universal Pictures has announced the production of a biopic tentatively entitled &#8220;Buddy Holly Stole My Pie.&#8221; &#8220;Pie&#8221; is based on the life of Bo Diddley <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/ap-gary-busey-in-talks-to-play-bo-diddle\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}