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August 24, 2016 The Skanner Page 11 Bids & Classiied Advertising deadlines 12:00 Noon Monday Hours: Monday - Friday 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Bridges cont’d from pg 8 a very famous Texas Ranger, Joaquin Jack- son, on the set with us. He died recently, but he was very instrumental, for me anyway, in get- ting my character right. KW: Harriet Paku- la-Teweles says: I loved you in “True Grit.” Is there another remake you’d like to star in? JB: Nothing real- ly comes to mind, al- though I understand they’re doing a remake of “Starman.” I know this doesn’t exactly an- swer your question but whenever I see Karen Allen, who was with me in the original, we of- ten ask, “Gee, why don’t they make a sequel to Starman?” Ater all, she was impregnated by the alien guy... He’s giv- en her the silver ball... There’s a story there! But I guess they’re go- ing ahead with a remake instead. That doesn’t an- swer your question. As a matter of fact, when the Coen Brothers came to me with “True Grit,” I went “Why do you want to remake that? It’s al- ready a famous movie?” They asked me, “Well, have you read the novel by Charles Portis?” So, I checked out the book, which read like the Coen Brothers’ script. And then I understood what they were up to. KW: Even though you’ve had so many great roles, whenever I told someone I was going to interview, in- variably the response would be, “The Dude! The Dude! The Dude!” a reference to another Coen Brothers ilm, “The Big Lebowski.” Do you also get more of a fan response about that ilm than any other? JB: Oh, absolutely! I just signed a couple of bowling pins moments ago. That sort of thing happens to me just about every day when I’m out and about. It’s great! I don’t feel any resentment about it. “The Big Lebowski” is a real masterpiece, as far as I’m concerned. I sup- pose I’m a bit biased be- cause I’m in it. But even if I weren’t, I’d still love that movie, it’s so well done. KW: Yeah, my son always says it’s his fa- vorite movie of all time. Which of your roles are you fondest of? JB: It’s like that corny thing actors say about how it’s like being asked to pick their favorite kid. Each one is such a diferent experience. KW: Is there one that comes to mind? JB: “Lebowski” is cer- tainly up there. I couldn’t pick one favorite, but I loved working with my brother [Beau] and my father [Lloyd] whenev- er that happened. I had a wonderful experience making “The Fabulous Baker Boys,” which I felt was a great movie, too. And I got to work with my dad in “Tucker” and in “Blown Away,” which were also wonderful ex- periences. Sometimes, it’s hard for me to sep- arate the experience from the inal product. KW: What was a ilm you really enjoyed mak- ing that might not have enjoyed box-oice suc- cess? JB: “The Moguls” was an obscure movie I had such a good time on. It’s also called “The Ama- teurs.” It had a great cast and a wonderful direc- tor [Michael Traeger], and we had so much fun. It was about the citizens of a small town getting together to make a porno movie. I think it came out great., but it fell apart because the distributor turned out to be a crook, so it nev- er got released. Hardly anybody saw it, but you could probably ind it somewhere. KW: Watching your dad on TV in “Sea Hunt,” was a big part of my childhood. was the show a big part of yours, too? JB: Yeah, unlike a lot of people in Hollywood, he loved showbiz so much he encouraged his kids to go into it. If you were a “Sea Hunt” fan, then you probably saw me on the show as a little kid. He was like, “Hey Jef, why don’t you come to work with your old man. You get to skip school.” KW: Ling-Ju Yen asks: What is your earliest childhood memory? JB: Sitting in my liv- ing room and seeing my mother open the front door. She was wearing a mink stole but had just cut of all of her long beautiful hair. She had a very short kind of bob. It just freaked me out. I just ran and locked my- self in the bathroom. I must have been about 3 or 4. Read the rest of this interview at TheSkanner.com To place your ad, email advertising@theskanner.com or go to www.TheSkanner.com and click on the “Ads” menu World Briefs cont’d from pg 12 Turkey makes first major foray into Syria with assault on IS ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Tur- key on Wednesday launched its irst major ground assault into Syria since the country’s civil war began, sending in tanks and special forces backed by U.S. air- strikes to help Syrian rebels re- take a border town from Islamic State militants. The surprise incursion to cap- ture the town of Jarablus was a dramatic escalation of Turkey’s role in Syria’s war. But its objec- tive went beyond ighting extrem- ists. Turkey is also aiming to con- tain expansion by Syria’s Kurds, who are also backed by the Unit- ed States and have used the ight against IS and the chaos of the civil war to seize nearly the entire stretch of the border with Turkey in northern Syria. That raises the potential for explosive frictions between two American allies. U.S. Vice Presi- dent Joe Biden lew into Ankara hours ater the ofensive, and he backed Turkey with a stern warn- ing to the Kurds to stay east of the Euphrates River, which crosses from Turkey into Syria at Jarablus. Kurdish forces “must move back across the Euphrates River. They cannot, will not, under any cir- cumstance get American support if they do not keep that commit- ment,” he said. The Turkish assault, launched in retaliation ater a string of mili- tant bombings in Turkey, adds yet another powerhouse force on the ground in an already complicated war. 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