JeffBridges.com: Turns out ‘The Big Lebowski’ was a documentary

There are a lot of great things about the Internet, but very likely the best part of it is that movie stars feel it necessary to have their own Web pages. Like Melanie Griffith’s “Avalon” where we get to find out once and for all that Griffith actually lives inside her own demented Harlequin romance novel.

Of course, Griffith has nothing on Jeff Bridges. But five minutes into looking at JeffBridges.com you’ll come to a startling discovery – “The Big Lebowski” was a documentary. The Dude is real.

Everywhere you look on JeffBridges.com, you’ll find Bridge’s own artwork (translation: doodles). You’ll also find a personal note from Bridges on first page:

Some dude has been posing as me on the guestbook & message board. I don’t plan to communicate that way so an postings from ‘me’ on there are fake. Please use good netiquette, guys.

So get that through your head right off the bat and there will be no problems. You can enjoy Jeff’s site, but Jeff won’t be hanging out or writing to you.

After that, the Web site has several sections. You can peruse info on the 87,000 films Bridges has been in (Dude’s busy. Really busy) or you can find out how to buy Bridge’s album “Be Here Soon.” All the while enjoying some random doodles Bridges jotted off while eating his corn flakes.

The “Stuff” section is particularly interesting, and includes more artwork linking to what are apparently some of Bridges favorite sites, including an odd Java game called Pass the Pigs, a link to a video of juggler Chris Bliss, Bridges’ own illustrations to the John Irving short story “The Door in the Floor,” a link to LebowskiFest.com (“A celebration of all things Lebowski”) and a link to a 2005 BBC story of a woman jailed for ripping off a dude’s left testicle. Among other things.

There’s also the Message Board that, while Bridges assures us he never plans to post on, somehow gets an irrational amount of attention, including one never-ending thread from someone named Cecile who is in an all-out war against the Scientologists that are tracking them (and Cecile even supplies the license plate numbers of the vans following him).

Here’s a sample from Cecile, who sometimes doesn’t even bother with translating and posts in French:

It is well explained i think in all my messages specially in “Tom Cruise stronger than democracy in Europe”?

If you want this website site is where the journalists i am in contact with (in the states and eu) are watching. They know my real identity.

I think it was a big mistake of us administration to accept to consider a nazi organization a “religion” and then scientology can benefit from tax exemption and recycle money via production (that is why Nicole Kidman made a petition against scientology tax exemption). Hope i have managed to explain. I’d say Jeff is not a nazi. He can contact the Washington Post and the New York times (and else), they know about me.

If i am not here , i will go else where. I just find here friendly if you don’t mind.

Actually the pic upload which could help me at its worst staying alive does work. Technology is obviously stronger than democracy.

Then, as is to be expected, there’s the “Do plants communicate with us?” thread.

Bridges also has a link to his own End Hunger Network displayed prominently. Overall, it’s probably safe to say that, for a movie star, Bridges seems like a good enough guy. Of course, it’s also safe to assume one other thing – Jeff Bridges is, in fact, The Dude. And being The Dude is enough for at least 100 or so to think he’s up to the job of being President of the United States of America.

To: Jeff Bridges and U.S. Congress

We, assembled fans of actor and activist Jeff Bridges move that he run for president in the 2008 United States election. While we recognize that playing the president of the United States in a movie (The Contender, 2000) does not necessarily prepare one for actually being president of the United States, it probably doesn’t hurt. Moreover, Bridges’ role as “The Dude” in the Big Lebowski (1998) has been presumed to be somewhat evocative of the actor’s real-life personality (he even wore his own clothes in the movie), and we firmly believe that “The Dude” would make an excellent figurehead of our troubled nation. Additionally, Mr. Bridges has proven himself capable of worthy leadership and compassion in establishing his “End Hunger Network” charity. Therefore, we nominate Mr. Bridges as candidate for president in the 2008 United States election, to run under any political party he chooses. In summing up: Run for president, Dude!

So head on over to JeffBridges.com and see for yourself if The Dude is capable of running the free world. He couldn’t do a worse job than the guy doing it now, and the world would be a much trippier place.

–WKW

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