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Dude! It's The Freaking Dude That Inspired The Dude - In Person - Red Bank, New Jersey!
Hey folks, Harry here... In the amazing travels and experiences that this life has dished out for me... One of my fondest is my South American cruise with a man most know as THE DUDE, but who is actually called Jeff Dowd. He's changed a lot of lives over the years and he's got more stories and a way about telling them that makes you feel wind in your hair and a buzz for being in the same room. I get a lot of "press releases" for events around the country - but this is one that I had to share. You see - The story behind THE DUDE is absolutely fascinating. You haven't an inkling of how amazing he is from THE BIG LEBOWSKI - he's not a burned out hippie bowler surfer dude... he might've been at some point, but I didn't meet that version of The Dude. Instead - he's a fired up and ready to go (not sure who used that phrase first) type with an incredible vitality and energy. He's not a person, so much as a force of human nature. If you can be there that night - you should definitely get your tickets and attend. He'll blow your mind.
A Great Night Hanging with Your Friends &
Jeff “the Dude” Dowd
the infamous original “Dude” who inspired the Coen Brothers to create Jeff Bridges’ character “The Dude” in The Big Lebowski
Two Dudes: Jeff Bridges & Jeff Dowd
Saturday, April 19th at 8:00 pm
The Count Basie Theatre
Redbank, New Jersey
See The Big Lebowski on the big screen with an audience—a rare treat!
$20 Movie & Dude Show Tickets
$40 Also includes After Party with Cash Bar
Buy Tickets Now at Count Basie Theatre.org
“Everybody knows somebody like the Dude -- and so, rumor has it, do the Coen brothers. They based the character on a movie producer named Jeff Dowd, a familiar figure at film festivals, who is tall, large, and shaggy and a boil with enthusiasm. Dowd is much more successful than ‘The Dude” played by Jeff Bridges but no less a creature of the moment. Both dudes depend on improvisation and inspiration...” Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times
The Dude will introduce The Big Lebowski with personal tales, trials and tribulations from the world of adventure, activism, politics, film, sex, drugs and rock and roll. He will share an inspirational vision of the future that goes beyond politicians’ campaigns.
Guests will enjoy a special sneak preview from his upcoming book:
“The Dude Abides! Classic Tales and Rebel Rants” and a Q&A where they
can give the Dude the third degree.
Have lots of laughs and come away inspired and hopeful!
There are a limited number of tickets for the after party where you can drink,
yak and get up close and personal with the Dude.
“Nowadays the real Dude is back in the saddle.” David Edelstein, New York Times
Big Lebowski Screening JeffDowd.com
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Where's Hurley!
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Let the tiresome stream of Big Lebowski quotes begin to flow!
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- takin 'er easy for all us sinners.
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He's set for life, eh?
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I've eally been wondeing about this guy eve since I ented the Big Lebowski. should be a owdy, aucous affai!!
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He's the King of All Dudes.
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and now my first post looks like I was smoking crack...it did say "peson"! I swear!
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yes scotty has one in teh new star trek dude, they're all teh rage
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Feb 20, 2008 7:08:58 PM CST
Do you like SEX, Mr. Lebowski...sex, the physical act of love, c
by zeke25:17
Well I was...talking about my rug...
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Then I could die and go to heaven and not feel like the good Lord gyped me.
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if you even slightly mention Big Lebowski on a message board, roughly 90% of the following posts will be Lebowski quotes. And if you disagree, well, that's just like, your opinion, man.
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...You pay alot of money to watch a movie you have already seen, because your watching it with some guy who was the basis for a loser in a movie? I thought it was sad that people paid Tara Reid to go to parties, but this is pretty gutter.
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This is, imo, the funniest movie of the ninties.
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I'd place Flirting With Disaster at #2.
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Stumbled across the shooting of The Fabulous Baker Boys in Seattle years back, just one cop standing guard and Jeff walking around in that tux from the opening shots. Friend and me, after a long night of bar-hopping, shouted out: "TRON!" and Jeff smiled and waved at us.
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Say what you will about the tenets of Ain't It Cool News, at least it's an ethos.
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That made no sense and I forgot the ', dude, '. Don't care.
I watched my buddies die facedown in the muck for your right to enjoy this family talkback establishment. -
Finishing my coffee ...
[wham goes fist on counter]
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It's a cool, small town. Springsteen and Bon Jovi live right next door in Navesink. Great bars, including a cigar bar called Ashes and another hip joint called "Red". It's about 15 miles from the Jersey Shore and has a lot of good looking women who will go shot for shot at the bar with you. Just thought I'd throw in the brochure since I sell booze to most of the establishments there. I wonder if The Dude is staying at the Molly Pitcher Inn or crashing at Springsteen's house?
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And, I know this has nothing to do with my "Dude" quote, Sam Elliot rocks!
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THE BUMS LOST!
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oops, wrong flick.
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Well, maybe it doesn't. But as a former NJ resident (back in the days when Jack's Music DIDN'T have a really cool loft that affleck and bancky lived in above it) It's great to see the Count Bassie getting some cred again. It's an extremely cool theatre with a lot of history, and the fact that I saw K-Smith (before he adopted Brittany's kids) there in 93??? give his first talkabout makes it all the more special. I've never meant this more..shit! I wish I was in Jersey...pouring a caucasion as we speak in deference
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just playing along
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:..hheyy...this is a private residence..
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Jackie Treehorn treats objects like women, man!
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Why promote this guy coming to COunt Basie when Count Basie actually gets REAl celebrities? I live right there and have seen standup from the likes of Bill Cosby, George Carlin, and Andrew Dice Clay (not that Dice is up there with the other two, but still). I don't see no ads for them. Not to mention all the musicians they get.
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... how you gonna keep 'em down on the farm once they've seen Karl Hungus?
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The chinaman peed on my rug, man.
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Nihilists?.....Fuck me...say what you what about the tenets of National Socialism but at least its an ethos!
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...he's all over L.A., if you catch him at the right bars. I had the chance to work with him on a music video he cameoed for; he signed my DVD, showed up with a crew of blonde, twentysomething "Dudettes," and rather than a beat-to-hell car, had a pretty nice convertible... evidently another step towards distancing himself his put-upon alter-ego in the movie (though I can't talk about too much more about the sort of substance he was made up of on set, because I wouldn't wanna potentially be liable... man). But putting together the real Dude with the Jeff who played him? That would be something to witness.
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What, like an irish monk?
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It had to be said.
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Because that would fucking ROCK.
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Just a friend of Maudeie's
Yeah? The friend with a cleft asshole?
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Who is he?
Knox Harrington. The video artist. -
I ahm hehre to ficks the Kabel..... Autobahn!
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Feb 21, 2008 5:57:05 PM CST
Also, let's not forget - let's NOT forget, Dude - that keeping w
by phit_demon
...that ain't legal either.
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...that keeping wildlife, an amphibious rodent, for uh, domestic...you know...within the city...that ain't legal either
Yeah, I fucked up the first time. -
I've never been more certain of anything in my life
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Yes! Eat it!
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