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This volume is nothing more than an excercise in contract fulfillment on the part of a desperate author. The subjects of the work clearly did not participate. And for anyone who has read the much superior book on the Coens by William Preston Robertson, "The Big Lebowski: The Making of a Coen Brothers Film," Bergan liberally draws from Robertson's work without crediting the source! It's not plagarism outright, since Bergan "paraphrases" what he lifts, but it is certainly bush league for an author of Bergan's apparent stature. As one small example, Bergan's chronology of the Coen's teenage film efforts whilst growing up in Minnesota is a tedious, blow-by-blow… Read more
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