"to discussing the parallels between ""The Dude"" from ""The Big Lebowski"" and Zen Buddhism. The book was formed from what has been described as a ""transcript of a five-day ""hang"" on a Montana ranch."" Bridges has been an amateur photographer since high school and began taking photographs on film sets during ""Starman"", at the suggestion of co-star Karen Allen. Since 1980, he began photographing on and off set shots with his favorite camera, a Widelux F8. He published many of these photographs online and published a book in 2003 entitled, ""Pictures: Photographs by Jeff Bridges"". Bridges narrated the documentary ""Lost"
"so the Coens changed it to a Ford Torino. PolyGram and Working Title Films, who had funded ""Fargo"", backed ""The Big Lebowski"" with a budget of $15 million. In casting the film, Joel remarked, ""we tend to write both for people we know and have worked with, and some parts without knowing who's going to play the role. In ""The Big Lebowski"" we did write for John [Goodman] and Steve [Buscemi], but we didn't know who was getting the Jeff Bridges role."" In preparation for his role, Bridges met Dowd but actually ""drew on myself a lot from back in"
"""The Big Lebowski"". He is referred to in the film by Bridges as ""the Chinaman who peed on my rug"", in which John Goodman prompts him that he's ""Asian-American"". In the late 1990s and early 2000s he had a string of roles playing police officers, including the 1998 TV movie ""Tempting Fate"", the 1998 film ""Love Kills"", and portraying detective Steven Nimh in the series ""Walker, Texas Ranger"" opposite Chuck Norris in 2000. In 2004, Moon had a role as Lieutenant Jim Wong in the popular series ""24"", followed by a stint as Lee in the series ""Deadwood"" in which"
"by fans of the movie, many dressed as characters from film. The festival began in 2002 in Louisville, Kentucky, and has been held in Milwaukee, New York, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, Seattle, Chicago, San Francisco, Portland, London, Boston, New Orleans and Pittsburgh. Various stars from ""The Big Lebowski"" have attended the fest over the years, including Jeff Bridges, who in 2005 showed up at Lebowski Fest in Los Angeles singing and playing ""The Man in Me"" by Bob Dylan, which is featured in the film. In 2011, members of the cast reunited at Lebowski Fest in New York, including"
"with concepts by the Ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus (341-270 BC), and presented in a style as personified by the character of Jeffrey ""The Dude"" Lebowski, a fictional hippie character portrayed by Jeff Bridges in the film. Dudeism has sometimes been regarded as a mock religion, though its founder and many adherents regard it seriously. For the historian of the anarchist movement Ronald Creagh, the hippie movement could be considered as the last spectacular resurgence of utopian socialism. For Creagh, a characteristic of this is the desire for the transformation of society not through political revolution, or through reformist action pushed"
"forces."" He was also involved in several organizations, including the American Oceans Campaign and Heal the Bay, a Los Angeles-based group. On March 10, 1998, Bridges died of natural causes at the age of 85. He was married to Dorothy Bridges (née Simpson; 1915–2009), from 1938 until his death. An episode (""The Burning"") in the final ""Seinfeld"" season (1998) was dedicated to the memory of Lloyd Bridges. He had played the character of Izzy Mandelbaum in the episodes ""The English Patient"" in 1997 and ""The Blood"" later the same year. Bridges' last film, ""Jane Austen's Mafia!"", which came out the"
"shoveled into a bag and allowed to spill out at random. The film is infuriating, and will win no prizes. But it does have some terrific jokes."" ""The Big Lebowski"" holds an approval rating of 82% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 92 reviews, with an average rating of 7.3/10. The site's critical consensus reads, ""Typically stunning visuals and sharp dialogue from the Coen Brothers, brought to life with strong performances from Goodman and Bridges."" Since its original release, ""The Big Lebowski"" has become a cult classic. Ardent fans of the film call themselves ""achievers"". Steve Palopoli wrote about the film's"
"Lloyd Bridges Lloyd Vernet Bridges Jr. (January 15, 1913 – March 10, 1998) was an American film, stage and television actor who starred in a number of television series and appeared in more than 150 feature films. He was the father of actors Beau Bridges and Jeff Bridges. He started his career as a contract performer for Columbia Pictures, appearing in classics such as ""A Walk In The Sun"", ""High Noon"", ""Little Big Horn"", and ""Sahara"". By the end of his career, he had re-invented himself and demonstrated a gifted comedic talent in such parody films as ""Airplane!"", ""Hot Shots!"","
"include Barney Gumble, Moe Szyslak, Banacek, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Brock Samson, Walt Kowalski of Gran Torino, The Big Lebowski, and Polish Wedding. Polish characters tend to be brutish and ignorant, and are frequently the butt of jokes in the pecking order of the show. In the series Banacek, the main character was described as ""not only a rugged insurance sleuth but also a walking lightning rod for Polish jokes."" In the 1961 film West Side Story, the character Chino takes issue with the caucasian Tony, who is of mixed Polish and Swedish heritage, and has a line in which he"
"and as Duke on ""Back at the Barnyard"", and played a chauffeur in the 1998 film ""The Big Lebowski"". Dom Irrera Domenick Jack ""Dom"" Irrera (born November 18, 1948) is an American stand-up comedian. Much of his material is in the form of stories about his life, especially his childhood years and growing up in an Italian-American family. Irrera has appeared on ""The Oprah Winfrey Show"", ""The View"", ""The Tonight Show with Jay Leno"", ""The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson"", and ""The Late Show with David Letterman"", and has made numerous cameo appearances on TV shows. Irrera is a"
"+ Country"" produced by the Red Hot Organization. Gilmore appeared as himself in Peter Bogdanovich's 1993 film ""The Thing Called Love"", a love story about young songwriters in Nashville. He also had a small but memorable acting role in the 1998 movie ""The Big Lebowski"". He portrayed a bowler named Smokey, an aging, emotionally ""fragile"" pacifist threatened with a pistol by Jeffrey ""The Dude"" Lebowski's sidekick, Walter Sobchak (John Goodman). He has also been a guest on ""The Tonight Show"", with host Jay Leno, the ""Late Show with David Letterman"", Garrison Keillor's ""A Prairie Home Companion"" on NPR, and the"
"the series Coach, character Dauber Dybinski played the ""big, dumb hulk of a player"" role for nine series, and a spin-off character George Dubcek (also with a Polish name) in Teech displayed the ""burly but dumb son of a former football player"". In the movie The End, lead supporting actor Marlon Burunki is depicted as an oafish and schizophrenic Polish-American in a mental institution. The term Polack was so pervasive in American society through the 1960s and 1970s that high-ranking U.S. politicians followed suit. In 1978, Senator Henry Jackson of Washington made Polish jokes at a banquet. Ronald Reagan told"
"and ""Jane Austen's Mafia!"" He acted in the role of ""The President"" in the comedy film ""Hot Shots! Part Deux"". Among other honors, Bridges was a two-time Emmy Award nominee. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 1, 1994. Bridges was born in San Leandro, California, to Lloyd Vernet Bridges Sr. (1887–1962), who was involved in the California hotel business and once owned a movie theater, and his wife Harriet Evelyn (Brown) Bridges (1893–1950). His parents were both natives of Kansas, and of English ancestry. Bridges graduated from Petaluma High School in 1930. He then"
"""Roustabout"" (1964), ""Girl Happy"" (1965), ""The Monkey's Uncle"" (1965), ""Out of Sight"" (1966), ""Blackbeard's Ghost"" (1968), ""The Towering Inferno"" (1974), ""Hooper"" (1978) and ""The Cannonball Run"" (1981). Grabowski was known as a wood carver, and many hot rods and custom cars feature his unique hand-carved skull gearshift knobs. He retired from acting in the 1980s after ""The Cannonball Run"". Grabowski died the morning of October 12, 2012, at the age of 79. Norm Grabowski Norm Grabowski (February 5, 1933 – October 12, 2012) was an American hot rod builder and actor. The heavy set crew cut-wearing Grabowski appeared in minor"
"as a gambler who rushes to the phone booth to place the same bet that Sam Rothstein (Robert De Niro) did, confident it will be profitable. In 2009's ""Crazy Heart"", Herman played the manager of Jeff Bridges' character. He was once a co-owner of Columbus Cafe and very close with Panarellas Reastaurant owner Nikola Rebraca and Pavle Stanimirović and Chef Mario Zambelli in New York City along with Charlie Herman Paul's brother and Russian American Mikhail Baryshnikov.Located on Columbus Avenue near Lincoln Center many celebrities used to visit Columbus Café and Panarellas in the late 1980's-early 1990's. Paul Herman Paul"
"actors but eventually used Polito after they made him read his entire role cold. He was offered the role of Lou Breeze in their next film ""Barton Fink"" (1991), in a role which was written especially for him. Again he turned down the Coens offer saying he wanted to play the part of movie producer Jack Lipnick. Actress Frances McDormand persuaded him to take the role saying it would change his career. He later appeared in ""The Hudsucker Proxy"" (1994) as an eccentric businessman, ""The Big Lebowski"" (1998) as a private detective and finally in 2001 as a flirtatious salesman"
"In 1999 ""TV Guide"" ranked him number 32 on its ""50 Greatest TV Characters of All Time"" list. Christopher Lloyd reprised the role of Reverend Jim on ""The Simpsons"" episode ""My Fare Lady"". Jim Ignatowski The Reverend Jim ""Iggy"" Ignatowski, played by Christopher Lloyd, is a fictional character in the 1970s television series ""Taxi"". A gentle soul, Jim, in his own words, was ""the living embodiment of the Sixties."" His most noticeable character trait was his extremely ""spaced out"" behavior as a result of extensive 1960s drug use. Ignatowski was born James Caldwell. He claimed to have been born in"
"going to be big, Gabby Hayes big!"", in reference to the American actor Gabby Hayes. Moe Szyslak, the bartender of Moe's Tavern, says that he, as a kid, played the part of Smelly on ""The Little Rascals"", until he killed Alfalfa for stealing his schtick. Bill Withers' song ""Lean on Me"" from 1972 is played at the end of the episode. In one scene, Comic Book Guy sends a message to other Internet nerds about who will star in the new ""Radioactive Man"" film, two of whom are the nerds Homer met in ""Homer Goes to College"", and one is"
"his work on ""The Sopranos"", ""Boardwalk Empire"", and ""Portlandia"" has received recognition. Steve Buscemi Steven Vincent Buscemi (; ; born December 13, 1957) is an American actor, comedian, director, and former firefighter. Buscemi has starred and supported in numerous successful Hollywood and indie films, including ""Parting Glances"", ""New York Stories"", ""Mystery Train"", ""Reservoir Dogs"", ""Desperado"", ""Con Air"", ""Armageddon"", ""The Grey Zone"", ""Ghost World"", ""Big Fish"", and ""The Death of Stalin"". He is also known for his appearances in the Coen brothers films ""Miller's Crossing"", ""Barton Fink"", ""The Hudsucker Proxy"", ""Fargo"", and ""The Big Lebowski"". Buscemi provides the voice of Randall"
"Steve Buscemi Steven Vincent Buscemi (; ; born December 13, 1957) is an American actor, comedian, director, and former firefighter. Buscemi has starred and supported in numerous successful Hollywood and indie films, including ""Parting Glances"", ""New York Stories"", ""Mystery Train"", ""Reservoir Dogs"", ""Desperado"", ""Con Air"", ""Armageddon"", ""The Grey Zone"", ""Ghost World"", ""Big Fish"", and ""The Death of Stalin"". He is also known for his appearances in the Coen brothers films ""Miller's Crossing"", ""Barton Fink"", ""The Hudsucker Proxy"", ""Fargo"", and ""The Big Lebowski"". Buscemi provides the voice of Randall Boggs in the ""Monsters, Inc."" franchise. From 2010 to 2014 he portrayed"
"film nor his performance in it. Flea played a minor role in the 1991 independent film ""My Own Private Idaho"" as the character Budd. He played a number of minor roles in films throughout the 1990s, including ""Son in Law"" (1993) as a tattoo artist, ""The Chase"" (1994) as a monster truck driver alongside Kiedis, ""Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"" (1998) as a ""Hippie"", in ""The Big Lebowski"" (1998) as a German nihilist, and the 1998 remake of ""Psycho"". He has also lent his voice to the animated series ""The Wild Thornberrys"" as the character Donnie. In 1991, the"
"and Jerry Garcia. Many of the film's actors worked for ""scale"" (union wages) for a chance to appear alongside Dylan, including Jeff Bridges, John Goodman (reunited after their work together in the 1998 Coen Brothers film ""The Big Lebowski"", which also featured the 1970 Dylan song ""The Man in Me""), Bruce Dern, Jessica Lange (who has had a longtime relationship with playwright Sam Shepard who co-wrote the 1986 composition ""Brownsville Girl"" with Dylan, from the album ""Knocked Out Loaded""), Penélope Cruz, Luke Wilson, Cheech Marin, Ed Harris, Chris Penn, Giovanni Ribisi, Christian Slater, Mickey Rourke, and Angela Bassett. In addition"
"little gray, mostly in his beard."" For many years, ""TV Guide"" ran an annual feature highlighting its takes on the year's most dubious television programs, episodes, activities, and issues, ""The J. Fred Muggs Awards for Distinguished Foolishness"". And in the 1994 film ""Quiz Show"", chronicling the infamous quiz show scandal of the late 1950s, actor Ralph Fiennes as ""Twenty-One"" champion Charles Van Doren—shown being offered a regular job on ""Today""—says to the Dave Garroway character (played by Barry Levinson), ""I hope you're not firing the chimp!"" J. Fred Muggs J. Fred Muggs (born March 14, 1952) is a chimpanzee born"
"remembered for his role as ""The Mister"", the chain-gang boss over Joel McCrea in Preston Sturges' ""Sullivan's Travels"". Bridge's television work, which began in 1950 includes appearances on ""The Range Rider"" and ""The Gene Autry Show"" as well as other programs. Bridge died on December 27, 1957, in Los Angeles, California. Alan Bridge Al Bridge (February 26, 1891 – December 27, 1957) was an American character actor who played mostly small roles in over 270 films between 1931 and 1954. Bridge's persona was an unpleasant, gravel-voiced man with an untidy moustache. Sometimes credited as Alan Bridge, and frequently not credited"
"Steve Bridges Steve Bridges (May 22, 1963 – March 3, 2012) was an American comedian, impressionist, and actor who was known for his impressions of politicians, television characters and broadcasters including Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barney Fife, Homer Simpson, Tom Brokaw, Paul Harvey, and Rush Limbaugh. Bridges graduated from Biola University in 1986. His accurate portrayal of Bush led to Bridges being cast as the president in episodes of both ""JAG"" and its spin-off, """". In 2006, he appeared alongside President George W. Bush at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, mimicking the president by"
"Renée Zellweger's character. He subsequently appeared on ""The Single Guy"", ""The Jeff Foxworthy Show"" as well as episodes of ""Dawson's Creek"" and the 1997 sitcom ""Meego"". In 1999, he starred in the film ""Stuart Little"", playing a boy whose family adopts a talking mouse, a role he reprised in the film's 2002 sequel. He also played the lead, Tony Thompson, in the 2000 film ""The Little Vampire"" and starred opposite Bow Wow in the 2002 film ""Like Mike"", which was released two weeks before ""Stuart Little 2"". The latter films did relatively well in theaters, and Lipnicki has become known"
"born in Youngstown, Ohio. He is married to Leslie Rawlings; they have one child. Slezak is not related to Walter Slezak or Erika Slezak. His surname is of Czech or Polish origin (cz. ""Slezák"", pl. ""Ślęzak"", meaning ""Silesian""). Victor Slezak Victor Slezak (born July 30, 1957) is an American stage, television and screen actor who has appeared in numerous films, including ""The Bridges of Madison County"" (1995), ""Beyond Rangoon"" (1995), ""The Devil's Own"" (1997), ""The Siege"" (1998),""The Cat's Meow"" (2001), ""Timequest"" as John F. Kennedy (2002) and ""The Notorious Bettie Page"" (2005). On Broadway, he starred as John F. Kennedy,"
"a Limited Edition which features ""Bowling Ball Packaging"" and is individually numbered. A high-definition version of ""The Big Lebowski"" was released by Universal on HD DVD format on June 26, 2007. The film was released in Blu-ray format in Italy by Cecchi Gori. On August 16, 2011, Universal Pictures released ""The Big Lebowski"" on Blu-ray. The limited-edition package includes a Jeff Bridges photo book, a ten-years-on retrospective, and an in-depth look at the annual Lebowski Fest. The film is also available in the Blu-ray Coen Brothers box set released in the UK, however this version is region free and will"
"had a sidekick, a green-scaled, brown bowler hatted Brooklyn-accented catfish named Catfish (voiced by Arnold Stang) who usually referred to Misterjaw as ""boss"" or ""chief""; Misterjaw usually called Catfish either ""pal-ly"", ""fella"" or ""sonny"" when in a good mood, or names like ""dumbkoff"", ""ka-nucklehead"" or ""macaroni brain"" when irritated. At times, Misterjaw would mistakenly address his sidekick as ""Dogfish"", only to correct himself a split second later by saying ""I mean, Catfish."" The primary goal of Misterjaw and Catfish was to catch Harry Halibut (voiced by Bob Ogle). In several instances, the duo were pursued by Fearless Freddy the Shark"
"I was furious because I adore ""The Big Lebowski"". I love the Dude and I'd do anything to be him. The story is a fantastic one and we both love the Coen Brothers. He knows that I love ""The Big Lebowski"" and he tried to wind me up when he wrote that line."" The episode saw the addition of several new actors to the cast such as Jackie Earle Haley. Earle Haley was cast in the role of Odin Quincannon, whom had previously been referenced in the pilot of the series, and had been described as ""[...] a small, decrepit"
"Raspberry Award for Worst Actor. He also won a Blockbuster Entertainment Award and a MTV Movie Award for his performance. The Waterboy The Waterboy is a 1998 American sports comedy film directed by Frank Coraci (who also appears in a cameo role), starring Adam Sandler, Kathy Bates, Fairuza Balk, Henry Winkler, Jerry Reed (his last film role before his death in 2008), Larry Gilliard, Jr., Blake Clark, Peter Dante and Jonathan Loughran, and produced by Robert Simonds and Jack Giarraputo. Lynn Swann, Lawrence Taylor, Jimmy Johnson, Bill Cowher, Paul """"The Big Show"""" Wight and Rob Schneider have cameo appearances. The"
"Jim Ignatowski The Reverend Jim ""Iggy"" Ignatowski, played by Christopher Lloyd, is a fictional character in the 1970s television series ""Taxi"". A gentle soul, Jim, in his own words, was ""the living embodiment of the Sixties."" His most noticeable character trait was his extremely ""spaced out"" behavior as a result of extensive 1960s drug use. Ignatowski was born James Caldwell. He claimed to have been born in Spokane, Washington, although his often-unreliable memory makes this information quite open to question. However, he was definitely raised in Boston, Massachusetts as one of three children in a very well-to-do family. Jim's mother"
"father. Peter Stormare Rolf Peter Ingvar Storm (born 27 August 1953), known professionally as Peter Stormare (), is a Swedish American actor, voice actor, theatre director, playwright and musician. He is best known for playing the roles of Gaear Grimsrud in ""Fargo"" (1996), Dieter Stark in """" (1997), Vladimir in ""Playing God"" (1997) Uli Kunkel/Karl Hungus in ""The Big Lebowski"" (1998), Lev Andropov in ""Armageddon"" (1998), Jeff in ""Dancer in the Dark"" (2000), Dr. Solomon P. Eddie in ""Minority Report"" (2001), Alexi in ""Bad Boys II"" (2003), Lucifer in ""Constantine"" (2005), John Abruzzi in the Fox series ""Prison Break"" (2005–2007),"