The Big Lebowski premiered

March 6, 1998
The Coen Bros. off-kilter take on a Raymond Chandler detective story, The Big Lebowski, opened on this date.

In an early draft of the script, The Dude’s source of income was revealed. He was an heir to the inventor of the Rubik’s Cube, which would have also made him Hungarian in turn. It was Joel Coen’s idea to drop this and never say.

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