Characters in real life
07/28/09 21:39
I met this guy last week at a baseball game. His name
is Jeff Dowd, also known as The Dude.
Jeff Dowd was the Coen Brothers’ real-life inspiration for this guy:
This guy’s name is Jeff Lebowski, and he’s also known as The Dude. This guy is in a movie called THE BIG LEBOWSKI, and if you haven’t seen it, I recommend it. It’s strange and wonderful and all sorts of Coen Bros. nuts. You gotta love it.
I was rather amazed when I met Jeff Dowd, because . . . well . . . he’s The Dude. And he’s a lot like The Dude in The Movie. And I’m sure half of it is planned and cultivated, but I’d bet the other half is just Jeff Dowd being Jeff Dowd. And the Coen Bros met him somewhere and said, “wow, this guy is worthy of a movie!” And he is. Hopefully someday a character for one of my books will come strolling up to me in an airport, or a mall, or in my classroom (well, that’s already kind of happened). All writers should get so lucky.
AND (this is the really cool thing) he’s got a YA daughter, and after he asked me what I do (“I’m a writer, Dude”), he asked me to send her a copy of SKY ALWAYS HEARS ME. So now I have his card and his address and his daughter’s name (Annabelle). How great is it that I get to send MY book to The Dude’s daughter?
Now she’s the one someone should write about. Can you imagine the kind of stories she can tell? She’s probably so sick of The Dude (not her dad, The Dude, unless her dad can’t get out of character) she can barely stand it.
Small world. Cool world.
Jeff Dowd was the Coen Brothers’ real-life inspiration for this guy:
This guy’s name is Jeff Lebowski, and he’s also known as The Dude. This guy is in a movie called THE BIG LEBOWSKI, and if you haven’t seen it, I recommend it. It’s strange and wonderful and all sorts of Coen Bros. nuts. You gotta love it.
I was rather amazed when I met Jeff Dowd, because . . . well . . . he’s The Dude. And he’s a lot like The Dude in The Movie. And I’m sure half of it is planned and cultivated, but I’d bet the other half is just Jeff Dowd being Jeff Dowd. And the Coen Bros met him somewhere and said, “wow, this guy is worthy of a movie!” And he is. Hopefully someday a character for one of my books will come strolling up to me in an airport, or a mall, or in my classroom (well, that’s already kind of happened). All writers should get so lucky.
AND (this is the really cool thing) he’s got a YA daughter, and after he asked me what I do (“I’m a writer, Dude”), he asked me to send her a copy of SKY ALWAYS HEARS ME. So now I have his card and his address and his daughter’s name (Annabelle). How great is it that I get to send MY book to The Dude’s daughter?
Now she’s the one someone should write about. Can you imagine the kind of stories she can tell? She’s probably so sick of The Dude (not her dad, The Dude, unless her dad can’t get out of character) she can barely stand it.
Small world. Cool world.