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The chance to emulate the Dude and abide by the utmost extreme is now up for grabs, with numerous costumes and pieces of ephemera from The Big Lebowski headed to auction next month.

The sale, marking the 25th anniversary of Joel and Ethan Coen’s classic flick, will take place Dec. 16 via Julien’s Auctions. Over 250 items will be up for grabs, including two iconic pieces Jeff Bridges wore as the Dude in the movie: A pair of sunglasses (estimated price $20,000 to $30,000) and the iconic brown bathrobe and white T-shirt...

More than 250 items from Joel and Ethan Coen’s 1998 classic film The Big Lebowski, starring Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore and Steve Buscemi will be hitting the block in December as part of a Julien’s Auctions and Turner Classic Movies joint event.

The auction comes on the heels of the film celebrating its 25th anniversary earlier this year. A portion of the proceeds from the auction will support Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign. Bridges serves as a national spokesperson for No Kid Hungry.

The auction will feature a rare offering of the film’s complete storyboards from start to finish by artist J. Todd Anderson. Created with brush, pencil, pen and ink on standard bond paper, they include handwritten text stating scenes such like “tumbleweed scene,” “grocery store scene,” “bungalow scene,” “home invasion scene,” “bowling Scene” and “Big Lebowski mansion scene” and more.

Other items include Bridges’ “The Dude” costume,...

In this episode Todd Anderson began is career with Twyla Tharp, made his Broadway debut with Hugh Jackman, and then went on to cover 36 tracks in 4 different companies as Wicked'suniversal swing. He grew up in Texas in the 80s when being 'different' wasn't always easy. With the mantra of 'I just never thought I couldn't,' he pounded the pavement, dancing with the skill of finding his quiet place to survive the concrete jungle.

Has it really been 20 years since the release of "Fargo?" Yah, you betcha.

The snowbound crime comedy-drama, released March 8, 1996, marked the first mainstream smash for Joel and Ethan Coen. It also gave Frances McDormand and William H. Macy their signature roles, spawned the acclaimed FX drama series, and sparked a brief fad that had everyone talking with exaggerated Minne-soh-ta accents.

Still, two decades after the film's debut, there's still a lot of confusion about what in "Fargo" was truth, what was fiction, and what was an elaborate in-joke. Here, then, are the far-fetched facts behind the film.1. The opening title card claims the movie is based on a true story, but in fact, it's almost completely fictional. There was, however, a real-life crime with some superficial similarities. The victim was Helle Crafts, a Connecticut woman who disappeared in 1986. Her husband was ultimately convicted of her murder; investigators determined that he'd...

J. Todd Anderson likes to say that he’s the first person to see a new Coen brothers movie. As the Coens’ storyboard artist, Anderson is the conduit between the film in Joel and Ethan’s imagination and its first physical manifestation. “My job is to put down on paper what they see in their heads,” Anderson says. “I’m just an interpretive artist. Joel and Ethan come up with the shots. I just draw them.” Anderson has been “just drawing them” for every Coen brothers feature since 1987’s Raising Arizona. The Coens’ latest, Hail, Caesar!, follows a ’50s Hollywood fixer (Josh Brolin) as […]...

Storyboards are a practical filmmaking tool that offers more information about the visual layout of the movie. They're also a fascinating art form on their own, resembling rough comic book frames with a unique and secret language to describe action. Black arrows indicate movement, while big white arrows indicate a camera's path. They can take weeks to complete for a feature film, but every structure has a solid foundation, and that's what storyboards provide. Here's a great little video we spotted on Filmmaker Iq that offers a peek at the storyboarding process of J. Todd Anderson. You may not recognize his name by itself, but he's a frequent collaborator of the Coen brothers. We get to see him in action as he storyboards his own entrance to the video interview...

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I haven't been feeling well today, which meant I spent most of the morning and afternoon having the kind of strange dreams that I remember for about five minutes and then forget completely except for random bits that end up in conversation somehow and make me look crazy. I don't remember my normal dreams at all, generally, but sick dreams/fever dreams stick with me for long periods of time making me concerned about my mental state. I'll keep myself from mentioning details, but one seemed to center around a parking garage. Here's your Wednesday night TV:

8:00pm: "American Idol" on Fox

"America's Next Top Model" on The CW. 16th season premiere.

"The Middle" on ABC

"Minute to Win It" on NBC

"Nova: Sciencenow" on PBS

"Survivor" on CBS

8:30pm: "Better With You" on ABC

"Throwdown with Bobby Flay" on Food Network

9:00pm: "Criminal Minds" on CBS

"Ghost Hunters" on SyFy.

It’s quite rare for the Coen brothers to write something and then not direct it. The only two examples are Crimewave, directed by Sam Raimi and The Naked Man, directed by Coen’s go-to storyboard artist J. Todd Anderson. We have another film to add to that list. The brothers wrote a remake of the 1966 British action comedy Gambit, which starred Michael Caine and Shirley MacLaine. With The Last Station’s Michael Hoffman attached to direct, Deadline now reports we have a lead.

Colin Firth, Oscar front-runner for the excellent The King’s Speech, is in talks to star. Firth will play “a cat burglar who attempts to rob a billionaire of his priceless statue. He enlists the help of a waitress who looks exactly like the victim’s dead wife. The burglar’s usual precision is clouded by his relationship with his accomplice.”

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Sometimes the briefest cameos from instantly recognizable celebrities provide the funniest punchlines. Take for example the scene that takes place on the set of The Dating Game in George Clooney's directorial debut from 2002, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. The camera pans to Bachelor #1, shaggy-haired and wearing appropriately groovy clothes, and ... wait, wasn't that Brad Pitt! That had to be Brad Pitt. Just as your brain is processing this, here's Bachelor #2 ... okay, this has to be Matt Damon, so that really must have been Brad Pitt back there. And then Bachelor #3 ... well, watch the clip below to get the full effect.

An IFC article about Matt Damon's cameos in various films gives us a little more information about J. Todd Anderson, aka Bachelor #3. He's a storyboard artist who had worked on O Brother Where Art Thou, which Clooney co-starred in -- in fact he seems to be the Coen...

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When Stanislavsky decreed, "there are no small parts, only small actors," Matt Damon was listening. In a career that started with one line in "Mystic Pizza," Damon has risen to the ranks of the A-list. Yet as Damon's star has gotten bigger, the roles have gotten smaller -- most recently, the "Bourne" star reaffirmed his status as king of cameos with his brief appearance in "Che: Part II," in which he plays Father Schwartz, a German priest fluent in Spanish who attempts to negotiate with rebel forces in Bolivia, with screen time of less than a minute. Though his finest pint-sized performance likely went down on the small screen last year in Sarah Silverman's serenade "I'm Fucking Matt Damon," no one has done more random onscreen favors for friends than Damon, who has been around the world more than Jason Bourne and worn crazier get-ups than...

Michael Rapaport (Zebrahead, True Romance, Higher Learning, The Naked Man) stars as Les an underconfident and lonley "Metermaid". Les decides to take part in a medical trail for a drug named "special" which is meant to increase confidence, much in the way that modern antidepressants like Seroxat or Prozac are said to. Les how ever has a serious psychotic reaction to the drug, which is in its final stages of human testing before it goes public. Not long after ingesting the first dose Les an avid comic book fan begins to believe he is developing super powers. The first power that manifests itself is flight or more to the point the ability to hover. Les returns to the offices of the doctor running the trails and while discussing his new found hovering skills he notices the development of telekinesis. Though the Dr tells him to immediately cease taking the medication,...