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TIL there exists a book and Broadway play adaptation of The Big Lebowski melded with the writing style of William Shakespeare, titled “Two Gentlemen of Lebowski”.

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px5p TIL Quentin Tarantino’s father abandoned him at the age of two. But after his son’s success as a director, he started doing direct-to-DVD movies with the father of Al Pacino so the movie boxes could say “Pacino and Tarantino in…..”
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