MOVIE REVIEW: True Grit

In the Coen brothers’ cult classic “The Big Lebowski,” Jeff Bridges portrayed Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski, an insouciant slacker who was described early on in the film as the laziest man in California. In the newest Coen brothers effort, “True Grit,” Bridges appears to be playing the laziest U.S. Marshal in the old west. As the whiskey-swilling Rooster Cogburn, he is moreover the most merciless of