Updated August 24, 2016. Green tea doesn't have as much caffeine as regular tea or coffee, but it does have some caffeine. You can find decaffeinated green tea, but does it have the same health benefits? Flavonols, including catechins, are the phytochemicals that give green tea much of its antioxidant potential.
Jeff Bridges is an Academy Award-winning actor and author (with Bernie Glassman) of the book The Dude and the Zen Master, from which this essay is adapted.
Jeff Bridges's father was busy B-movie star and TV icon Lloyd Bridges, so he got to skip the entire struggling actor phase. An infant in his first movie, The Company She Keeps (1951), as a youth he appeared on his father's Sea Hunt and toured with a stage production of Anniversary Waltz.