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...release his self-titled album August 16. "You're The Dude," continued Morgan. "To millions of people around the world, Jeff Bridges, you will always be The Dude. I can't pretend anything else." The CNN host proudly stated that he "ritually" watches "Lebowski"...
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...Bridges has shared his high school yearbook photo and other personal pics taken over the years with Elle. Bridges, who is promoting 'Tron' and 'True Grit,' tells the magazine about his wild past. "I had a great '70s," he said. "Today, being a parent with...
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...between the brothers. Also, Pfeiffer's steamy performance of "Makin' Whoopee" on top of the piano is not to be missed. Jeff Bridges, who paints, dabbles in music, and is an excellent photographer, has said he wasn't even sure he wanted to be an actor. But...
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...Bridges says his 33-year marriage to Susan Geston gets even better as they get older. Jeff Bridges finds marriage gets better with time. Th... More. The latest gossip and news written in the Celebrity News from Female First reports... What do you think of...
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...of us have revered Jeff Bridges for decades – since his good-natured young studs and chumps: Duane inThe Last Picture Show; the boxer who keeps getting knocked out in Fat City; and, with Barry Brown, as drifters and small-time thieves in Bad Company. It was...
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...Bridges finds himself transformed into a young man again in 'Tron Legacy' LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Hollywood has famously had better luck using makeup to make young actors look old — like Russell Crowe in "A Beautiful Mind" — than making old actors look young....
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...know. I'll have to check that out. Reporter: Now that it's all said and done, what was the best part of returning to Tron? Jeff Bridges: Oh, I would have to say, you know, messing with the great technology, being a part of that. DISCLAIMER: This posting...
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... The cast was also on hand with press yesterday to discuss the long-in-the-making film including Kevin Flynn himself, Jeff Bridges, who admits he’d been hearing Tron discussions almost since the original’s release nearly 30 years ago. “Well, I had heard rumors...
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...prizes for Up In The Air, but Bridges now seems to have pulled ahead, now that his Crazy Heart is starting to get seen. Jeff Bridges has made many popular movies, and given many acclaimed performances. Yet the one that finally got Bridges a Golden Globe is...
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With a twang in his voice and a thirst for an Oscar in his heart, Jeff Bridges lays down some of the best licks of his career as a washed-up country star in "Crazy Heart."
It's a beaut, too, with Bridges looking and sounding more haggard than Haggard
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...some not too far-fetched parallel universe, Jeff Bridges really might be living the life of a boozy country singer. Bridges seems like the real thing in "Crazy Heart," rasping out songs in the comfortable remnants of a whiskey-and-tobacco-seared voice that...
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...George Christy gives you an insider's peek into Hollywood's A-list parties and personalities. Buzz is building about Jeff Bridgesâ memorable performance as Bad Blake, the down-at-his-heels, honky tonk, boozer country singer in "Crazy Heart."Â Jeff says that...
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Jeff Bridges' remarkable performance in "Crazy Heart" is already generating some serious buzz
Famed Beverly Hills Courier columnist George Christy gives you an insider's peek into Hollywood's A-list parties and personalities.
Buzz is building about
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(NASHVILLE SKYLINE is a column by CMT/CMT.com Editorial Director Chet Flippo.)
Looming on the 2010 music
horizon are new country music dramas in movies and on TV. But don't expect them to be full of new themes and new subjects.
It's going to be pretty
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When Jeff Bridges sat down for an interview with Entertainment Weekly to discuss his new film, Crazy Heart, the EW people just had to ask Bridges about his most iconic role - that of “the Dude” in The Big Lebowski. Full disclosure: I love The Big
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Enticing Jeff Bridges to voice a washed-up surfer dude in the 2007 children's movie Surf's Up, the filmmakers sent the actor a video of an animated penguin declaiming a few of his lines from The Big Lebowski. They probably didn't need to work that hard:
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Jeff Bridges nearly turned down the movie role that is almost certain to net him an Oscar nomination in 2010, because he wanted to spend more time at home. The actor has won acclaim playing grizzled, alcoholic country star Bad Blake in "Crazy Heart",
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Crazy Heart****R (strong language, sexual content); 100 min.Is Jeff Bridges the most underappreciated actor of his generation? That’s the main conclusion to be
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...of hard drinking country singer Bad Blake in the film, which is now playing in U.S. theaters. To hear veteran actor Jeff Bridges tell it, he had the time of his life in his new movie "Crazy Heart" playing a drunk -- and so far, no bad hangover. "I'm very...
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...of hard drinking country singer Bad Blake in the film, which is now playing in U.S. theaters. To hear veteran actor Jeff Bridges tell it, he had the time of his life in his new movie "Crazy Heart" playing a drunk -- and so far, no bad hangover. "I'm very...
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - To hear veteran actor Jeff Bridges tell it, he had the time of his life in his new movie "Crazy Heart" playing a drunk -- and so far, no bad hangover.
In fact, Bridges has enjoyed critical acclaim and movie awards buzz for his
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Enticing Jeff Bridges to voice a washed-up surfer dude in the 2007 children's movie Surf's Up, the filmmakers sent the actor a video of an animated penguin declaiming a few of his lines from The Big Lebowski. They probably didn't need to work that hard:
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times previously without a win. "Crazy Heart" feels like a potential Oscar winner for Bridges, who has a nice good-luck charm tagging along in co-star Robert Duvall, the 1983 best-actor winner for "Tender Mercies," another story of a downtrodden
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Crazy Heart stars four-time Oscar nominee Jeff Bridges as a boozed-up, washed-out country singer looking to a young journalist (Maggie Gyllenhaal) for salvation. The debut feature from
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Guardian Unlimited
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...Bridges for best actor? Gabourey Sibide for best actress? Avatar, best film? Over the past week or two, with the announcements of the Golden Globe nominations, the Independent Spirit Award candidates and the year-end best lists from the National Board of Review...
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You're right about the inability to avoid hyperbole when it comes to Bridges; given his uniform excellence I thought it'd be easier to pick five bad performances and think about why they didn't work. Till I scanned his filmography and found, maybe,
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Review in a Hurry: Jeff Bridges gives an effortlessly lovable performance as a burned-out, drunken country legend looking for a comeback in both music and life. The movie as a whole never rings as true as Bridges' lead character, Bad Blake—but he's
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"Crazy Heart" is blessed with so many marvelous moments, lovely lines and vivid characters that it's hard to know where to begin, but let's start with an encounter in a tacky Santa Fe motel room. Bad Blake, a ruined legend of a country musician played
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Wall Street Journal
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Jeff Bridges stars as country singer Bad Blake in "Crazy Heart."
Jeff Bridges plays down-on-luck country singer Bad Blake, in "Crazy Heart"Bridges command and authority in playing Bad gives the movie its appealWith Colin Farrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal and
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Each week, The Daily Beast scours the cultural landscape to choose three top picks. This week, Jeff Bridges' sings his crazy heart out for Oscar, a swingin’ online
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The Daily Beast
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Crazy Heart is the portrait of a country music singer who's lived hard, fast and recklessly, and although he's become a broken down man who's had too many marriages, too many years on the road and too many drinks, he continues to seek
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Anyone seen Crazy Heart yet? A friend who lives in New York has, and he says it's incredible. Jeff Bridges is amazing. He sings the songs and plays the axe himself, you know, and undoubtedly in the right key. He's a total genius.
Jeffrey Lebowski is
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Looking back at the awards season of 1998-99, it's hard not to feel some chagrin. That was the year Roberto Benigni did his clown's leap to the stage to pick up his Best Actor Oscar, but in retrospect, it's not that Benigni beat out Nick Nolte, Edward
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...can almost smell Bad Blake â an aging country music star played by Jeff Bridges â as he performs in Crazy Heart . Approaching 60, he's bearded, grizzled, drenched in sweat â and completely drunk. His drink of choice is "McClure's" â and if you don't recognize...
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...can almost smell Bad Blake — an aging country music star played by Jeff Bridges — as he performs in Crazy Heart . Approaching 60, he's bearded, grizzled, drenched in sweat — and completely drunk. His drink of choice is "McClure's" — and if you don't recognize...
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Word has it that Fox Searchlight, after "Amelia" crashed, is banking on first time director Scott Cooper's, "Crazy Heart" to bring home the Oscar this year (and pay that hefty electric bill they must have). Can you believe Jeff Bridges doesn't have an
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Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal star in “Crazy Heart,” a new film about a washed-up country singer.
Can you still be the most underrated actor in America if everyone keeps saying how good you are?
For nearly 40 years, Jeff Bridges has been turning
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with her ex-husband in "It's Complicated."
the Oscars. Other Globe recipients who followed with Oscar wins included Heath Ledger as supporting actor for "The Dark Knight" and Kate Winslet, who won supporting actress at the Globes for "The Reader" and
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Golden Globe nominee Jeff Bridges tells ET about being honored alongside today's top talent -- and why he says the awards are essential for success in Hollywood!
"I'm not counting any chickens," he muses about his third Globe nomination. "It's
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Whenever the holidays roll around and Oscar season begins in earnest, there's always one movie or performance that takes everyone by surprise, and this year, it's Scott Cooper's Crazy Heart and the amazing performance by Jeff Bridges that's the very
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Fox Searchlight Pictures threw a little holiday party at a fashionable SoHo hotel the other night, and no wonder. The company has had a very good year. Three of its movies are getting serious critical love as the year-end polls come in. The animated
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MTV.com
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Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal chat late into the night in 'Crazy Heart,' which opens in limited release on Wednesday
One of the nicest things about the way "Crazy Heart" has just sort of blown in out of nowhere at the end of this year is how rare
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...Jeff Bridges plays a hard living country singer in Crazy Heart. He goes from town to town drinking it up in dive bars and bringing the local floozies back to his motel. As an actor, Bridges is a bit more successful than his character, but he can still relate...
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been drunk and hungover and puked and all that stuff, so I know how to do that," laughed Jeff Bridges in discussing how he prepared for the role of bloated, alcoholic country singer Bad Blake in "Crazy Heart." But there’s more to Bad than McClure’s whiskey,
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Jeff Bridges has won a coveted Best Actor award for his performance in country music tale Crazy Heart.
The actor was given the gong by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.
Yolande Moreau was named Best Actress for French film Seraphine and Iraq
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"I’ve been drunk and hungover and puked and all that stuff, so I know how to do that," laughed Jeff Bridges in discussing how he prepared for the role of bloated, alcoholic country singer Bad Blake in Crazy Heart.
But there’s more to Bad than McClure’s
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Jeff Bridges has been nominated for an Academy Award four times, and now he's on the short list for
another. In Crazy Heart, his powerful performance as Bad Blake, a
down-and-out country star trying to overcome his alcoholism and make a comeback, has
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Jeff Bridges plays a hard-drinking country-western singer in Crazy Heart, out Wednesday. His only other musical role was as a pianist in The Fabulous Baker Boys in 1989.
Actor Jeff Bridges is like a freshly opened bag of potato chips.
You start
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USA Today
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After a 25 wait, the sequel to the ground-breaking action movie, Tron, is heading to theaters. Jeff Bridges returns in Tron Legacy as Kevin Flynn, and this time he's joined by Garrett Hedlund as his tech-savvy son and Olivia Wilde as his loyal
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About.com: Hollywood Movies
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Mention Jeff Bridges to almost anyone and they immediately can reference their favorite Bridges’ character, whether it’s the innocent alien in “Starman,” the burnt-out DJ in “The Fisher King,” the mediocre jazz musician in “The Fabulous Baker Boys,”
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