The Dude and the Zen Master

The Dude and the Zen Master
Author: Jeff Bridges
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2013-01-08
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1101600756

The perfect gift for fans of The Big Lebowski, Jeff Bridges's "The Dude", and anyone who could use more Zen in their lives. Zen Master Bernie Glassman compares Jeff Bridges’s iconic role in The Big Lebowski to a Lamed-Vavnik: one of the men in Jewish mysticism who are “simple and unassuming,” and “so good that on account of them God lets the world go on.” Jeff puts it another way. “The wonderful thing about the Dude is that he’d always rather hug it out than slug it out.” For more than a decade, Academy Award-winning actor Jeff Bridges and his Buddhist teacher, renowned Roshi Bernie Glassman, have been close friends. Inspiring and often hilarious, The Dude and the Zen Master captures their freewheeling dialogue and remarkable humanism in a book that reminds us of the importance of doing good in a difficult world.

Jeff Bridges

Jeff Bridges
Author:
Publisher: powerHouse Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-10-15
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9781576879368

Academy Award-winning actor Jeff Bridges is widely adored asa jewel of American cinema, with dozens of leading credits to his name. For more than 30 years, on numerous film sets, Bridges, with his specialized panoramic camera, a Widelux F8, has captured behind-the-scenes views of the creative world of moviemaking. Now, 16 years since his first collection of photography, comesVolume Two. Taking pictures of coworkers on the job results in compelling photographs, especially when those people include the likes of Meryl Streep, Robert Duvall, Julianne Moore, Olivia Wilde, and Matt Damon, among others. Unique photos from his earlier work were first shared inPictures: Jeff Bridges(powerHouse Books, 2003). Now, drawing on his most recent film work,Jeff Bridges: Pictures Volume 2expands on Bridges' intimate vision of Hollywood behind-the-scenes. Included within are rare looks at the famed actors, top directors, talented costumers and makeup artists, skilled and creative set and art decoration, and the rest of thepassionate crews involved in such memorable movies asTrue Grit,Crazy Heart,The Giver,TRON: Legacy, andHell or High Water. Together, these pictures provide glimpses of the art, craft, and sleight of hand behind the magic of motion pictures.Jeff Bridges:Pictures Volume 2also celebrates Bridges' mastery of the special effects made possible with the distinctive Widelux panoramic camera. Bridges' proceeds fromJeff Bridges: Pictures Volume Twowill be donated to the Motion Picture & Television Fund, a nonprofit organization that offers charitable care and support to film-industry workers.

Pictures

Pictures
Author: Jeff Bridges
Publisher:
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2003
Genre: Art
ISBN:

This extraordinary book of images offers a behind-the-scenes look at one brilliant Hollywood career. Four-time Academy Award-nominee Jeff Bridges has starred in many of the most beloved films of our time, including The Last Picture Show, The Fabulous Baker Boys, The Fisher King, Fearless, The Big Lebowski, The Contender and Seabiscuit, this summer's upcoming blockbuster. Here he unveils thirty year's worth of photos, including candid on-the-set shots of everyone from Kevin Spacey and Toby McGuire to Michelle Pfeiffer and Julianne Moore. 116 b/w photos.

Robert Redford and the American West

Robert Redford and the American West
Author: Elisa Leonelli
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2007-05-03
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1462818145

ROBERT REDFORD has played many Westerners on the big screen: a romantic outlaw in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) with Paul Newman, a sheriff in Tell Them Willie Boy is Here (1968), a mountain man in Jeremiah Johnson (1972), a rodeo cowboy in The Electric Horseman (1979) with Jane Fonda, a Montana rancher in The Horse Whisperer (1998), which he also directed. He is the founder of Sundance, an admirer of Native American art and culture and a committed environmentalist. He embodies the best values of the American West.

Duane's Depressed

Duane's Depressed
Author: Larry McMurtry
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2010-06-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1439127778

Funny, sad, full of wonderful characters and the word-perfect dialogue of which he is the master, McMurtry brings the Thalia saga to an end with Duane confronting depression in the midst of plenty. Surrounded by his children, who all seem to be going through life crises involving sex, drugs, and violence; his wife, Karla, who is wrestling with her own demons; and friends like Sonny, who seem to be dying, Duane can't seem to make sense of his life anymore. He gradually makes his way through a protracted end-of-life crisis of which he is finally cured by reading Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, a combination of penance, and prescription from Dr. Carmichael that somehow works. Duane's Depressed is the work of a powerful, mature artist, with a deep understanding of the human condition, a profound ability to write about small-town life, and perhaps the surest touch of any American novelist for the tangled feelings that bind and separate men and women.

Acting

Acting
Author: Richard Boleslavsky
Publisher: Echo Point+ORM
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2019-02-11
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1648371280

The classic text on the craft of Method acting by the founder of The American Laboratory Theatre. After studying at the Moscow Art Theatre under Konstantin Stanislavski, Richard Boleslavsky became one of the most important acting teachers of his or any generation. Bringing Stanislavski’s system to America in the 1920s and 30s, he influenced many of the titans of American drama, from his own students—including Lee Strasburg and Stella Adler—to Marlon Brando, Paul Newman, and many others. In Acting: The First Six Lessons, Boleslavsky presents his acting theory and technique in a series of accessible and engaging dialogues. Widely considered a must-have for any serious actor, Boleslavsky’s work has long helped actors better understand their craft.

Who Am I?

Who Am I?
Author: Jerry Bridges
Publisher: Cruciform Press
Total Pages: 89
Release: 2012-03-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1936760495

Best-selling author Jerry Brides (The Pursuit of Holiness, The Discipline of Grace, The Bookends of the Christian Life, and many other books) asks perhaps the most fundamental question of existence: “Who am I?” He then turns to Scripture to unpack for the Christian eight clear, interlocking, illuminating answers: I Am a Creature I Am in Christ I Am Justified I Am an Adopted Son of God I Am a New Creation I Am a Saint I Am a Servant of Jesus Christ I Am Not Yet Perfect A direct, honest presentation of biblical truth, and all new material from Jerry Bridges, Who Am I?demonstrates for believers that they can and should rightfully claim for themselves an unshakeable, lifelong, personal foundation of confidence in one thing and one thing alone: the gospel of a victorious, resurrected Savior.

You Caught Me Kissing

You Caught Me Kissing
Author: Dorothy Bridges
Publisher: Milk & Cookies
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-11
Genre: Love poetry, American
ISBN: 9781596873117

A remarkable memoir chronicles the more than fifty-year love affair betweenctor Lloyd Bridges and his wife, capturing the poignant and emotional sagaf a legendary Hollywood family through a series of anecdotes, vignettes, andoems. Reprint.

Scene by Scene

Scene by Scene
Author: Mark Cousins
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002
Genre: Motion picture actors and actresses
ISBN: 9781856692878

Consisting of detailed discussions in which film directors and actors analyse key scenes from their film output, Mark Cousins's study covers the period from the 1940s through to the 1990s. The author discusses approximately forty of the most important scenes ever shot.

Rhino Ranch

Rhino Ranch
Author: Larry McMurtry
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2010-06-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1451606524

​In his signature his elegiac prose​, Rhino Ranch finds Larry McMurtry bidding a final farewell to his multi-book hero, Duane Moore, and the rapidly changing town of Thalia, Texas. The town of Thalia, Texas has changed forever. By the end of When the Light Goes, Duane was already realizing how different his dusty old oil patch was becoming. Now, coming back from a near-fatal heart attack, it is nearly unrecognizable to him. Returning home to recover, Duane finds a new neighbor, K.K. Slater, a stubborn, tough, quirky billionairess, who also happens to have opened the Rhino Ranch—a preserve to save the black Rhino—on her property. In the midst of a world to which he no longer belongs, in a town in which the land that used to reap oil now serves as a nature preserve, he watches the world change around him and begins to reflect on love affairs past and the missed opportunities he now regrets. Rhino Ranch is a bittersweet and fitting end to this iconic series, a tribute to all of the emotion, hilarity, whimsy, and poignancy that readers have followed across decades.