Jeff Bridges Tours The Big Lebowski Store
Here's a sneak-preview of PBS' upcoming documentary Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides. Inside, a clip of the program—which airs tomorrow night—where he visits The Big Lebowski store.
Here's a sneak-preview of PBS' upcoming documentary Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides. Inside, a clip of the program—which airs tomorrow night—where he visits The Big Lebowski store.
This mash up of two iconic late 90's movies, the Big Lebowski and the Matrix, is pure genius. Inserting the Dude into the Matrix's "blue pill, red pill scene" works really well; look out for the obligatory Eagles joke.
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love NYT film critic Manohla "#RealTalk" Dargis' work. Which is why it hurts to (predictably) point out how cringeworthy it is that even the Times still uses The Big Lebowski as the headline-worthy reference point for Jeff Bridges.
The Big Lebowski is the tale of The Dude's odyssey through LA back allies and bowling lanes to rescue the wife of a rich Millionaire who vandalized and destroyed his rug after a case of mistaken identity.
"It's not on Amazon.com as we speak, but there's an unusual-sounding book by Chicago Sun-Times columnist Cathleen Falsani arriving in the spring of '09 called The Dude Abides: The Gospel According to the Coen Brothers. It will look at the 'serious existential and theological questions using the dark, intelligent humor…