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Boogie Nights.
The movie's credits include a
music archivist, and he's earned his
pay. Because Jeff
Bridges' character,
usually known
simply as "the
Dude," is still
locked in a '70s
timewarp, there's
an excuse for plen-
ty of good
Santana,
Creedence
Clearwater Revival
and the even-bet-
ter-than-the-Eagles
Hispanic version
of
"Hotel
Jeff Bridges and John Goodman star in "The Big Lebowski."
California."
If you liked
the plot is a little hard to follow,
Kingpin, and you liked Boogie
especially if you've never seen or
Nights, and you loved Fargo and the
read Raymond Chandler's The Big
half-dozen other movies of which
Sleep, and you think Philip Marlowe
The Big Lebowski is a pastiche, you're
is a filtered cigarette.
bound to like this one — and have
But this is truly film noir for the
plenty of fodder for a parlor game.
'90s.
Like a rap remix, there's a lot of
Granted, The Big Lebowski does
familiar stuff in these grooves.
have some problems. And big ones,
While The Big Lebowski may be all
at that. The ending is more than a
one big Polish joke, it is a funny
little too abrupt. The ersatz cowboy
one. And you don't have to be
played by Sam Elliott belongs in
Jewish to like this movie, although it
another movie, preferably one being
probably helps. Suspend disbelief
unspooled in another cineplex. And
and just plain enjoy. Besides, it sure
a huge chunk of the plot depends
beats seeing Titanic for the seventh
upon the two main characters not
time.
having done something that they
x:x*x:x 1/2
almost certainly would have done.
But in between the missteps are
some fabulously funny moments.
.. . ...... Excellent
Goodman's comedy performance
***
Worthy
may be his best ever. Make no
Mixed
mistake about it: This is a comedy,
Poor
No Stars
although much of the humor is
Forget It
painted very black. I laughed like
hell, especially at parts everyone else
Alan Abrams is a Toledo-based
in the audience was too embarrassed
freelance writer.
to even acknowledge as humorous.
Especially the scene with the Folger's

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can. Remember this when you see it.
And the violence quotient is truly
a
negligible. What's a dismembered
toe and ear these days?
An added treat is seeing Ben
Gazzara back on the big screen
again, even if he seems to have tem-
porarily wandered in from the set of

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