The Big Lebowski has died; Dude still abiding

Not many left from Blazing Saddles: Mel Brooks himself, Gene Wilder, Carol Arthur, Burton Gilliam, John Hillerman, Robyn Hilton, Rodney Allen Rippy, producer Michael Hertzberg, and writer Andrew Bergman.

The Big Lebowski: What makes a man, Mr. Lebowski?
The Dude: Dude.
The Big Lebowski: Huh?
The Dude: Uhh… I don’t know sir.
The Big Lebowski: Is it being prepared to do the right thing, whatever the cost? Isn’t that what makes a man?
The Dude: Hmmm… Sure, that and a pair of testicles.

The Big Lebowski: Are you employed, sir?
The Dude: Employed?
The Big Lebowski: You don’t go out looking for a job dressed like that? On a weekday?
The Dude: Is this a… what day is this?
The Big Lebowski: Well, I do work sir, so if you don’t mind…
The Dude: I do mind, the Dude minds. This will not stand, ya know, this aggression will not stand, man.
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Settle in; unfortunately it’s going to be a while.

The Cohens and the Brooks. Two different producers with David Huddleston as the common element.

He really tied them together, man.

I’ve never seen that movie. You mean Jeff Bridges isn’t this Lebowski guy??

They are both Lebowski.

Here, this explains it. Well, actually it doesn’t. They are both named Lebowski, it was an unfortunate confusion of having two people named Lebowski that was the beginning of the story.

Jeff Bridge’s character prefers to be called The Dude. Or your dudeness, or etc.

Seriously, go watch the movie.

…El Duderino, if you’re not into that whole brevity thing…

Trivia: he was friends for almost 80 years with Roy Clark of Hee-Haw Fame; they grew up together. He was Clark’s manager during some lean times.

His wife said his favorite moment as an actor was playing Benjamin Franklin in the Broadway revival of 1776 in the 1990s.

He’s not the big Lebowski, but he’s a Lebowski.

Only if Walter scatters them. Everything’s a fucking travesty with that guy.

Yes, yes. I’m well aware of my own condition. I’ve been in seclusion.

Sometimes you eat the bear, and…

You’re wayyyy off. It’s fought Dix. The joke is that there is a US Army base, fairly well known, Fort Dix. Someone with a strong Brooklyn accent would pronounce fort and fought the same.

One of several actors* in Capricorn One who seemed to show up with carte blanche to just do whatever they wanted. “David, just be smug and act like you’ve got everyone by the balls.” “Got it.”

*No one seemed to tell OJ. He had to settle for rub sand on his mouth and cry.

You can imagine where it goes from there…

He fixes the cable?

However, IIRC, the following line says (something like) “Remember when Richard Dix tried to take over the town?”

Dick Dix.

Kinda creepy watching the scene inside the limo. Both the actors across from Bridges are dead.

Fuckin’ A, man.