Jeff Bridges

Impressive performance from Jeff Bridges generating award buzz Bridges' performance has created a genuine Oscar buzz about Crazy Heart The first trailer for Crazy Heart, a new drama starring Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal, has been...

In this article: Maggie Gyllenhaal

...reasons they decided to release "Crazy Heart" as a last-minute award candidate on Dec. 16 is to avoid running into another upcoming Jeff Bridges flick now on the fast track, "True Grit." That's the Coen brothers' remake of the 1969 western...

In this article: Oscar, District 9, Neill Blomkamp, Jim Gianopoulos, James Cameron, Martin Scorsese, Avatar, Slumdog Millionaire, and Danny Boyle

...to having a serious bout of trepidation when I headed off the other night to see "Crazy Heart," the new Fox Searchlight film that stars Jeff Bridges as Bad Blake, a hard-drinking, faded country star relegated to one-night gigs at bowling...

In this article: Oscar, Tender Mercies, Waylon Jennings, Robert Duvall, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Stephen Bruton

TORONTO - In "The Men Who Stare at Goats," Jeff Bridges plays Bill Django, a military man who returns from Vietnam to embrace the '60s counterculture headlong - the whole Aquarian Age, flower power, altered states of consciousness thing.

In this article: The Men Who Stare at Goats, Coen brothers, The Last American Hero, The Iceman Cometh, Toronto, Lee Marvin, and Robert Ryan

...with Lyn on a mission in the Iraq desert, to find the missing and oh-so-eccentric founder of the unit, Bill Django (Jeff Bridges). Bridges, wearing braids and a sunnily doped-out expression, has a ball with this role, particularly in a...

In this article: Ewan McGregor, The Men Who Stare at Goats, George Clooney, Goat, Kevin Spacey, Jon Ronson, and Grant Heslov

...dabbles in film. One of his latest projects is "The Open Road," an indie dramedy where Timberlake plays a minor league baseball player who reconnects with his estranged major league father (played by Jeff Bridges) when his mother becomes ill.

In this article: Justin Timberlake, The Open Road, DVD, and Judd Apatow

...is throwing an exciting wrench into the Best Actor race by deciding to release its country-music drama Crazy Heart, starring Jeff Bridges in what's said to be a career-best performance, in mid-December for awards consideration. Bridges...

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THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING Jeff Bridges nearly died filming an elaborate stunt. The actor was shooting an action scene in Ridley Scott's 1996 film 'White Squall' when he inhaled so much water and jet fumes his body...

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Inquirer Movie Columnist and Critic TORONTO - In The Men Who Stare at Goats, Jeff Bridges plays Bill Django, a military man who returns from Vietnam to embrace the '60s counterculture headlong - the whole Aquarian Age, flower power,...

In this article: The Men Who Stare at Goats, Coen brothers, The Last American Hero, The Iceman Cometh, Toronto, Victor Mature, and Lee Marvin

...of brain energies to help the Army in 'The Men Who Stare at Goats,' the actor just recalled his trippy days in the '60s and '70s. Jeff Bridges stars in the quirky film "The Men Who Stare at Goats" as a former Army officer who studies psychic...

In this article: Jim Channon, Ewan McGregor, The Men Who Stare at Goats, George Clooney, Tron, and Jedi Knight