He played the character Smokey in the 1998 movie, The Big Lebowski.

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She compares Facebook to "The Truman Show, " the 1998 Jim Carrey movie about a fabricated world where nothing ever goes wrong.

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The movie "Fire, " released in India in 1998, depicts a lesbian relationship.

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When an American-style drive-in movie theatre opened in the north-eastern outskirts of Beijing in 1998, it was tempting to imagine young urban Chinese using their new cars as a tool for dating.

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Bee Movie, meanwhile, is comedian Seinfeld's first major project since he ended his eponymous sitcom in 1998.

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