INSTRUCTIONS FOR ENJOYING THIS BOOK
FOREWORD: SAYING WHAT CAN’T BE SAID BY JEFF BRIDGES
INTRODUCTION: LOTTA INS, LOTTA OUTS, LOTTA WHAT-HAVE-YOUS
CHAPTER 1: I WON’T SAY HERO,’ CAUSE WHAT’S A HERO
How to Dude-ify Your Office Space
How to Dude-ify Your Living Space
Duderonomy: Rules to Live by, and Sometimes Break
CHAPTER 2: PARTS, ANYWAY. THE ACTORS AND THEIR ROLES
Jeff Bridges—The Dude
John Goodman—Walter Sobchak
Julianne Moore—Maude Lebowski
John Turturro—Jesus Quintana aka the Jesus
Sam Elliott—The Stranger
Philip Seymour Hoffman—Brandt
David Huddleston—The Big Lebowski
Peter Stormare—Nihilist #1/Uli Kunkel/Karl Hungus
Jack Kehler—Marty the Landlord
Jon Polito—Da Fino (Private Snoop)
Jimmie Dale Gilmore—Smokey
Tara Reid—Bunny Lebowski/Bunny La Joya/Fawn Knudsen
Asia Carrera—Sherry in Logjammin’
Jesse Flanagan—Little Larry Sellers
Jim Hoosier—Liam O’Brien (The Jesus’s Bowling Buddy)
Jerry Haleva—Saddam Hussein
Robin Jones—Ralphs Checkout Girl
Steve Buscemi—Donny
CHAPTER 3: WAY OUT WEST. ORIGINS AND INSPIRATIONS
A (Not Quite) Interview with the Coen Brothers
Jeff “The Dude” Dowd: He’s the Dude. So That’s What You Call Him
Peter Exline: His Rug Really Tied the Room Together. His Car Was Also Stolen. (Separate Incidents.)
“Big” Lew Abernathy: “We’ll Brace the Kid. Should Be a Pushover.”
Jaik Freeman: The Real Little Larry
John Milius: An Inspiration for Walter. He’s Not Housebroken
CHAPTER 4: ARE WE ALONE? OR, HOW THE BIG LEBOWSKI BECAME A CULT CLASSIC
Times Like These Call for a Big Lebowski?
And We Do Enter the Next Round-Robin
Zat’s Why Zay Sent Me… I Um Exphurt
CHAPTER 5: THE ACHIEVERS. AND PROUD WE ARE OF ALL OF THEM
Oliver Benjamin—Chiang Mai, Thailand
Johnny Hickman—Fort Collins, Colorado
The Academic Symposium—Louisville, Kentucky
CHAPTER 6: LEBOWSKI FEST. IF YOU WILL IT, DUDE, IT IS NO DREAM
First Annual Big Lebowski What-Have-You Fest
Lebowski Fest West, Los Angeles
CHAPTER 7: REFERENCE MATERIALS. A BY-YOUR-SIDE GUIDE TO WATCHING THE BIG LEBOWSKI.
¿Parla Usted Achiever? An English–Achiever Translation Guide
The Big Lebowski Ultimate Soundtrack
The Best of the Eagles