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JULIEN’S AUCTIONS AND TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES (TCM) CELEBRATES THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF “THE BIG LEBOWSKI” AT “HOLLYWOOD LEGENDS”

Julien’s Auctions and Turner Classic Movies (TCM) – the ultimate destination for Hollywood memorabilia auctions – will pay homage to the Hollywood cult-classic phenomenon that is celebrating its 25th anniversary, “The Big Lebowski: The Complete Storyboards Auction” as part of “HOLLYWOOD LEGENDS” Thursday, December 14th, Friday, December 15th, and Saturday, December 16th, Sunday, December 17th in Beverly Hills and online at JuliensLive.com.








The special auction event featuring over 250 items from storyboards, costumes, and more, all celebrating The Big Lebowski, will take place Day Three of the year-end auction spectacular celebrating Julien’s Auctions’ two decades as the industry’s leading Hollywood auction house. A portion of the proceeds from each lot will go to Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign. No Kid Hungry is a national campaign that is working to end childhood hunger in the United States, run by the national nonprofit organization Share Our Strength. Launched in 2010, the No Kid Hungry campaign equips schools and community organizations across the country with the technical assistance, funds and resources they need to connect kids to the food they need to thrive.

This will take place on Day Three of the year-end auction spectacular.

“The Dude” auction joins Julien’s and TCM’s lineup of over 1,000 of the most famous and instantly recognizable pop culture artifacts ever to come to auction.

Since its world premiere at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival twenty-five years ago, the Coen Brothers’ independent film The Big Lebowski went on to become one of the world’s greatest and most enduring cult classics of all time. It is one of the most quotable and pop culture defining films from the 90s that spawned legions of pseudo religious followers of Dudeism who practice the laidback lifestyle and philosophy of the film’s hero “The Dude” played by Jeff Bridges.

In an exclusive video, Jeff Bridges talks about his role and some of the iconic items on offer at the auction including:

The entire film’s storyboards all created by J. Todd Anderson, famous for laying out the storyboards, scene by scene, for all of the Coen Brothers’ cinematic masterpieces going back to Raising Arizona. It is rare for any directors to do storyboards for every scene in the film, but that is the method created with the Coen Brothers and J. Todd Anderson. Created with brush, pencil, pen, and ink on standard bond paper they include handwritten text stating scenes such as: "Tumbleweed Scene," "Grocery Store Scene," "Bungalow Scene," "Home Invasion Scene," "Bowling Scene" (photo right) "Big Lebowski Mansion Scene" and more.

This “end-to-end” storyboard collection auction is a first for the industry and is expected to garner significant excitement among movie fans around the world.

Also on offer is Jeff Bridges “Jeffrey” The Dude ensemble is comprised of a light brown knitted fleece bathrobe and an off-white cotton Jockey T-shirt worn by Jeff Bridges in The Big Lebowski as well as his original pair of sunglasses as a separate lot an part of an original bowling ball return signed by Jeff Bridges direct from the set of the film.

Jeff Bridges also signed memorabilia such as bowling pins that he made unique doodles on as part of this special auction.

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