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Scenes from 2nd Annual Lebowski Fest:
Lebowski 7:19
I Just Dropped In To See What Condition My Condition Was In MP3
More on the roots of the festival can be found at www.lebowskifest.com.
At noon Saturday, a
motorcade will proceed from the Holiday Inn on
Part 2: Lebowski Fest Renegade Motorcade Parade |
LOUISVILLE, KY. (July 19, 2003) – The caravan pulled out of the Holiday Inn parking lot at 12:15 p.m., a dozen or so horn-honkers heading west on Bardstown Road. At the lead, the Official Lebowski Fest Mobile, a 1972 Plymouth Fury III from which, riding shotgun, Jeff "The Dude" Dowd thrusts a bowling trophy and waves to who have you they happen to pass. Down Bardstown, to the Dairy Queen drive-through window and twice around as the clapping employees encouraged the motorcade to make another lap. From the sunroof of the next car, a man in a T-shirt waved a bowling ball. Obscure? Not after Saturday editions of Louisville's Courier-Journal featured "Dude! Lebowski fest rocks" above the flag. |
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The cars were emblazoned with slogans from the film -- "Over the line," "We believe in nothing," "Take 'er easy, Dude" and "Nice marmot," while their T-shirts continued the dialog: "The bums lost" and This is not 'Nam, this is bowling." Likely to win the "Came the farthest" prize is 25-year-old Mahesh Primalani, who paid 1,500 Singapore dollars for a plane ticket to the event. That's about $900 in Louisville money. At 4:30, participants in the Big Lebowski Internet forum gathered in the Holiday Inn Lounge for discounted White Russians, the Dude's favorite drink, and to see what each other looked like. At 6:30 p.m., next door at the AMF Rose Bowl parking lot, the Lebowski mobile will be parked for the "ringer toss," and at 8 p.m., get ready to roll. Part 1: The screening of The Big Lebowski Part 2: Lebowski Fest Renegade Motorcade Parade Part 3: The Dude steps up to the line Part 4: The afterglow Other coverage: |
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