Crazy Duet

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The YouTube caption says this is Jeff Bridges and Colin Farrell sharing the mike at a Toby Keith concert the day before yesterday --- Thursday, 9.18.08 -- in Albuquerque, New Mexico, while filming a pic called Crazy Heart.

I don't know zip except that the director-writer is Scott Cooper, and that it's based on a 1988 Thomas Cobb novel.

The Amazon synopsis reads as follows: "Singer and guitarist Bad Blake (Bridges) was once a first-rate country-and-western star, but now he's 57, an alcoholic, a failure at four marriages, and playing in third-rate clubs. The biggest gig he can get is opening for Tommy Sweet (

"Bad meets Jean Craddock (Maggie Gyllenhaal) when she comes to interview him and they fall in love. Her little boy, Buddy, inspires Bad to search for his own long-lost son, but there's no happy ending there. And when Bad, hungry for a drink, loses Jean's son, things take a downturn, despite Bad's fling with AA."