Celebrity Buzz On Friday, The Dude paid a visit to the Greyston Foundation, a community center for the disenfranchised in Yonkers, NY. Pretty damn cool.
Movie Buzz Jeff Bridges managed to break away from his Summer's Eve endorsement jam sessions to join his “Big Lebowski” co-stars for a 13-year reunion. John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, T. Bone Burnett, and John Tuturro shared the Hammerstein Ballroom stage with The Dude in NYC this week, answering questions and what-have-yous about the Coen cult classic. (via.)
TV Buzz After he performed a track from his new album on The Colbert Report, Jeff Bridges gave Stephen Colbert an exclusive audition for Summer's Eve. (via Gotcha Media)
I had no idea I was only getting 35% of my daily naked flying feminist allotment from one viewing.
Celebrity Buzz An art show pitting the properties of film nerd powerhouses Quentin Tarantino and the Coen Bros. against one another. If this were a March Madness bracket, the championship bout would be between “Pulp Fiction” and “The Big Lebowski.” Here's hoping that “Miller's Crossing” is this year's Cinderella story. More info on the show from Spoke Art.
Celebrity Buzz The latest installment of Annie Leibovitz's Disney Dream series, with Olivia Wilde as the Evil Queen and Alec Baldwin as the Magic Mirror. Imagine seeing that Alec Baldwin face peering through your window at night.
Does anyone else find the thought of a Mattie Ross/Hit Girl teamup both to be both brilliant and absolutely, completely, pants-wettingly terrifying?
http://kottke.org/11/01/the-dude-abides
Jeff Bridges visits a shop dedicated to “The Big Lebowski,” heads explode.
This is a clip from the documentary “Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides” set to air Wednesday, January 12 at 8pm on PBS. OMFG! (Via.)
Movie Buzz I'm not quite sure what would motivate anyone to make a MacGyver / Big Lebowski mashup. Nonetheless, I award it a Little Lebowski Urban Achiever award, made with a paper clip, some old copper wiring and a used Yoplait yogurt container.
http://www.jeffbridges.com/ironmanbook_cover.html
Jeff Bridges' book about the making of Iron Man is fully online, with the actor's photographs and notes about the production. Two Jeff Bridges posts in one weekend? I'm beginning to get a sense that he's a very different guy than The Dude would have us believe.
http://www.jeffbridges.com/fish.html
Jeff Bridges shares the heartwarming tale of a giant catfish and the basketball it tried to eat. The lesson: “Be kinder than necessary 'cause everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.”
Something to do at your desk that you physically can’t do. Thanks, Jeff Bridges! I’ll watch The Big Lebowski again in your honor.