Find out who the Dude is really based on - and why Julianne Moore's 'vaginal' artist, Maude, owes much to Yoko Ono.
And if so, that dude Jake's not based on his body, is he? "No!
The Dude was also partly based on a friend of the Coen brothers, Peter Exline (now a member of the faculty at USC's School of Cinematic Arts), a Vietnam War veteran who reportedly lived in a dump of an apartment and was proud of a little rug that "tied the room together".
That is the central spiritual, if not theological, concern of the Church of the Latter-day Dude, the totally not-fake religion based on the ethos of Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski, the slacker savior of Joel and Ethan Coen's 1998 cult masterpiece "The Big Lebowski".
Dick, it turns out, is based on The Dude, a character from the film "The Big Lebowski," as played by Jeff Bridges.
But a whole movie based on this dude?
One of them is the dude that "Rain Man" was based on: He's the smartest and the most retarded of them all.
Based on the dude's erratic conversation, and the volume of sweat he produces from the minute he steps out of the shower, he's high.
Lots of the statistics are based on household surveys, dudes with clipboards wandering through villages, asking people about their kids' birth weights and whether they use mosquito bednets.
This book tells the story, based on extensive interviews with one such pilferer, an entrepreneurial and eccentrically likable dude called Dell Glover, who worked at a record company manufacturing plant in North Carolina.
