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Jeffrey Lebowski breaks 10 year absence for Iron Man
Martin Anderson
The Dude makes his first screen appearance in 10 years in the new Iron Man film - if only in name....
Published on Apr 28, 2008
In a film fairly packed with some of the most expensive and dazzling excitement we are likely to see all year, I walked out of the Paramount screening in London on Friday with a smile on my face for a smaller reason – The Dude is in Iron Man!
No, I don’t just mean Jeff Bridges – at the point where Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) is searching through evil Obadiah Stane’s computer records, we see a rapid-fire fusillade of files opening and closing. Blink and you’ll miss it, but the name ‘Lebowski, J’ is briefly seen in those personnel files, constituting the first reappearance of the Coen Brothers' cult slacker for ten years!
But let this be only the beginning - it's high time that El Dooderino (if you're not into that whole brevity thing) quit his Greta Garbo act and bowled his way back onto the big (or small) screen...
Check out our Iron Man review...
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The Dude abiding.
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