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This whole room is kind of dude-like,"
Jeff Bridges says. It's a summer afternoon at Bridges' Santa
Barbara, California, estate, and the 58-year-old actor is digging
around his dusty garage, looking for memorabilia from The Big
Lebowski. Artifacts from the movie are strewn about his
Spanish-tiled house. In Bridges' recording studio — where he
once cut an album with Michael McDonald — sits one of the
bowling-pin hats used in the trippy dream sequence with Bridges and
co-star Julianne Moore. In his office are the grimy jelly sandals
that Bridges' character, a slacker called the Dude, wore for most
of the film. When we walk up to the ocean-view bluff where Bridges
likes to hike every day, there's the remains of a cocktail in a
dirty cup. It's a Black Russian. As far as I can tell, this seems
like the biggest difference between Bridges and his most enduring
character, who prefers his Russians white.

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