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In his years in the movies,

Bradley Cooper has already lived a few distinct lives.

We first got to know him as a kind of charming lunghead

in ensemble comedies like Wedding Crashers and The Hangover.

Then came Bradley Cooper, the leading man, both a heart-throb on magazine covers and an intense

presence in films like American sniper. In 2018 we saw a new

Bradley Cooper emerge, the director, first with A Star is Born and then last year

with Maestro.

Maestro is a film about Leonard Bernstein, the conductor and the composer and teacher,

someone whose skills ranged from the Broadway stage to the heights of classical music.

It's a funny thing about this meaning business in music anyway.

When you say, what does it mean? What you're really really saying is what is it trying to tell you what ideas

Does it make me have?

Bradley Cooper stars as Bernstein opposite Carrie Mulligan, who plays his wife,

the actress Felicia Montelegra.

Hello, I'm Lenny.

Hello, Felicia.

Bernstein, like that one.

Montelegra.

Montelegra? Montelegra? Montelegra? Montelegra cone.

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