LOS ANGELES — There were bowling pins, bathrobes, white Russians and The Dude himself.
Jeff Bridges and his band performed Friday at Lebowski Fest, but Joel and Ethan Coen’s 1998 campy crime comedy “The Big Lebowski” was still the night’s biggest star.
Fans of the film filled the Wiltern Theater in midtown Los Angeles to capacity for the annual celebration of the cult classic, which has been staged around the country since 2002. The two-day festival continued Saturday with a costumed bowling party.
Bridges and his band performed a 30-minute set Friday that included songs from “Crazy Heart,” the 2009 film for which he won the best actor Oscar. Kyle Gass, the other half of Jack Black’s band, Tenacious D, opened the evening by singing tunes from “The Big Lebowski.”
