I'm The Dude: Robe From 'The Big Lebowski' is Up for Auction

I'm The Dude: Robe From 'The Big Lebowski' is Up for Auction

 

Some new shit has come to light: The bathrobe worn by Jeff Bridges in "The Big Lebowski" is being auctioned off, along with the green shorts worn by John Goodman. 

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Tim Burton and Danny Elfman Pair for Movie Score Concert

Tim Burton and Danny Elfman Pair for Movie Score Concert

The composer — and longtime Oingo Boingo frontman — also will sing live for the first time in 18 years at the event, set for Oct. 7 at London's Royal Albert Hall.

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Oscars: Animated Shorts in focus

Oscars: Animated Shorts in focus

''Longest Daycare,'' ''Paperman,'' ''Head Over Heels,'' ''Fresh Guacamole,'' ''Adam and Dog'': Get to know 'em!

Video: San Diego Zoo Jaguars Get a Bloody Valentine

Video: San Diego Zoo Jaguars Get a Bloody Valentine

Okay, animal lovers. This could be an "ewwww" or an "awwww" moment depending on how squeamish you are. The San Digeo Zoo released a video of their jaguars getting a treat for Valentine's Day Thursday, and the cats seemed to really enjoy it.

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Does watching voice actors change animation?

Does the experience of watching voice actors change animation?

This January, fans who braved pouring rain to travel to the Theatre Of Living Arts in Philadelphia to see Archer Live! were greeted by Sterling Archer, not H. Jon Benjamin, who famously looks nothing like the dashing super-spy he voices on FX’s animated comedy. Instead of Benjamin’s beer gut and thinning hair, the audience got a muscular, black-haired Adonis who roamed the floor of the TLA in a tight black turtleneck sweater. As Benjamin played the part of the man behind the curtain, “Archer” mouthed his lines, acting as a false hypeman for the crowd. The joke is that the diehard Archer fans who paid for the privilege of seeing a cartoon come to life know what Benjamin actually looks like. Everyone who’s followed his career from Dr. Katz through Home Movies through Jon Benjamin Has A Van is aware of the humor derived from the canyon ...

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Yarn Bombers Aim to Adorn Craft and Folk Art Museum

Yarn Bombers Aim to Adorn Craft and Folk Art Museum

Yarn Bombers Los Angeles, an arts collective well-represented by Westside L.A. artists, is seeking community support complete a public art project of epic proportions.
YBLA has collected more than 5,000 granny squares, a double-knit crochet pattern, which they will use to adorn the facade and roof of the Craft and Folk Art Museum on Wilshire Boulevard.
While the artists are well supplied with granny squares, they're still seeking funds to pay for contractors, insurance costs and additional funds.
The project, called CAFAM Granny Squared, has raised $5,465 for the project, but risks losing it all if they don't reach their $8,000 goal by Wednesday, Feb. 20 at 11:59 p.m.
From YBLA:

That’s where you come in. We are in need of funds to afford contractors, insurance, and any additional material costs associated with installation. Installation calls for hiring engineers to oversee the process, contractors to handle the mechanics, unexpected costs like fire retardant and liability insurance so that our project is building-safe. Additionally, we would like to publish a catalog and additional print materials to commemorate this groundbreaking project. We applied for some grants, but we also need to raise at least $8,000 to able to pay everyone who is involved in the installation and documentation - contractors, structural engineers, architects, photographers, cinematographers, graphic designers - for their time and labor. Additional funds raised will go toward completing the roof area of the building, which is right now not part of the installation plan.

Those who want to support the project can do so on the CAFAM Granny Squared USA Projects page.
Other supporters who want to help, but don't want to make a donation, can do so by attending YBLA's monthly 'Stitch n' Bitch' event, to be held at 5814 Wilshire Blvd. from 2-5 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 16.
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Yarn Bombers Aim to Adorn Craft and Folk Art Museum

Yarn Bombers Aim to Adorn Craft and Folk Art Museum

Yarn Bombers Los Angeles, an arts collective well-represented by Westside L.A. artists, is seeking community support complete a public art project of epic proportions.

YBLA has collected more than 5,000 granny squares, a double-knit crochet pattern, which they will use to adorn the facade and roof of the Craft and Folk Art Museum on Wilshire Boulevard.

While the artists are well supplied with granny squares, they're still seeking funds to pay for contractors, insurance costs and additional funds.

The project, called CAFAM Granny Squared, has raised $5,465 for the project, but risks losing it all if they don't reach their $8,000 goal by Wednesday, Feb. 20 at 11:59 p.m.

From YBLA:

That's where you come in. We are in need of funds to afford contractors, insurance, and any additional material costs associated with installation. Installation calls for hiring engineers to oversee the process, contractors to handle the mechanics, unexpected costs like fire retardant and liability insurance so that our project is building-safe. Additionally, we would like to publish a catalog and additional print materials to commemorate this groundbreaking project. We applied for some grants, but we also need to raise at least $8,000 to able to pay everyone who is involved in the installation and documentation - contractors, structural engineers, architects, photographers, cinematographers, graphic designers - for their time and labor. Additional funds raised will go toward completing the roof area of the building, which is right now not part of the installation plan.

Those who want to support the project can do so on the CAFAM Granny Squared USA Projects page.

Other supporters who want to help, but don't want to make a donation, can do so by attending YBLA's monthly 'Stitch n' Bitch' event, to be held at 5814 Wilshire Blvd. from 2-5 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 16

The yarn bombers have left their mark on Venice and the rest of Los Angeles several times in the last few years, leaving knitted creations such as "B Nice" at Pacific and Windward avenues.

74 Things Every Great Star Wars Movie Needs

74 Things Every Great Star Wars Movie Needs

Illustrations by Stanley Chow


Not very long from now in a theater not very far away ?
It is a time of hope in the galaxy. In late December, Disney completed its purchase of Lucasfilm and announced that it would be making new Star Wars movies. Soon a director was found ? JJ Abrams! The next episode ...

Color Of Night takes the erotic thriller far beyond the point of absurdity

Watch This: Color Of Night takes the erotic thriller far beyond the point of absurdity

Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: A Good Day To Die Hard has us thinking about less-heralded Bruce Willis movies.


Following the runaway success of Basic Instinct, cineplexes were suddenly flooded by a massive wave of sleazy, voyeuristic, soft-focus erotic thrillers in the mid-'90s. 1994's exquisitely idiotic Color Of Night boasted a much higher pedigree than most of the field: It was directed by Richard Rush, the man behind the mind-bending 1980 cult classic The Stunt Man and co-written by Billy Ray, who would someday give the world superior docudramas like Shattered Glass and Breach, both of which he directed. 

The eminently overqualified Rush and Ray collaborated on a dizzy, daffy potboiler that doesn't transcend the sleazy, sordid nature of the erotic thriller so much as it pushes the convoluted plotting and shamelessness of the ...

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