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The Buddy Holly Story continually prioritizes emotional impact and accelerated plot points over factual fidelity, employing “dramatic license” as a justification for biographical laziness.
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Ooh-Wee-Ooh, I Look Nothing Like Buddy Holly

When Gary Busey played the titular rocker in The Buddy Holly Story (1978), he was already 12 years older than Holly was when he died. To paraphrase Weezer’s song, “Ooh-wee-ooh, I look nothing like …

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