Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. Lebowski and all the ships at sea!

BREAKING NEWS FROM THE 20TH FLOOR STUDIOS OF THE WPRB COMMUNICATIONS COMPLEX:

Jeff Dowd, the inspiration for Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski in the Coen Brothers’ classic The Big Lebowski, will join Read and I live on WPRB NEWS PRESENTS: THE WEEK IN REVIEW this evening (Monday, April 14) at 6:30 P.M. Mr. Dowd will be promoting the Saturday, April 19 screening of The Big Lebowski at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, New Jersey, at which he will answer questions about the film and discuss his soon-to-be-released book, The Dude Abides.

For more information about the event, check out www.countbasietheatre.org or www.jeffdowd.com.

If you can’t tune in, don’t despair. The interview will be archived on the mothership sometime Monday night.

More news from the 20th floor coming later in the week. Until then, take care, and don’t hurt yourselves.

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