Fuck yeah, I do! So many questions! Like, why the fuck did producer/director/star Bradley Cooper even make this movie? Did he wake up one morning and think to himself “You know what America needs to hear? It needs to hear how legendary composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein, having lost his way in life, ultimately found spiritual redemption…
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When Reagan Killed Bernstein
Michael O’Donnell, writing in the Washington Monthly, takes down Barry Seldes’s Leonard Bernstein: The Political Life of an American Musician, which blames Lennie’s artistic collapse on the election of Ronald Reagan, rather than booze and boys. Well, it’s a theory. Via Arts and Letters (again).