When the Coen Brothers needed someone to show The Dude how to really roll, they could turn to only one man: Hall of Fame professional bowler Barry Asher
As the turn of the century neared, the White Russian was just another bad, outdated cocktail from the 1970s. Then The Dude arrived and ensured that it wasn’t just ‘another caucasian, Gary’
The cult comedy’s origins have long been traced back to film producer Jeff Dowd, the model for the Dude. But Peter Exline is just as integral to the movie’s genesis, although he tells Cracked he doesn’t want to take too much credit. All he did was swipe a rug from his neighbor
‘If you’re handing out free anything to the audience, it’s comedy gold. I mean, this was tubes of hemorrhoid ointment, and it was like I was Oprah handing out cars’
