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Bruce Dern Inspires Award at BFF

Bruce Dern at the 2015 San Diego Comic Con International in San Diego, California. The Hateful Eight panel.
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Bruce Dern at the 2015 San Diego Comic Con International in San Diego, California. The Hateful Eight panel.

Oscar-nominated actor Bruce Dern is the inspiration for an award at the Bentonville Film Festival, the Dernsie.  He explains the term was coined by Jack Nicholson in honor of Dern's ability to improvise on set.

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Kyle Kellams is KUAF's news director and host of Ozarks at Large.
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