Arguably the least interesting thing about Leonard Bernstein — the legendary conductor and composer now being played by Bradley Cooper in an upcoming Netflix biopic called “Maestro”— was his nose. Bernstein wrote symphonies, musicals and film scores, labored throughout his life to make classical music accessible to broader audiences and took public stances on important human rights issues of the day.
” While I’m glad they like the film, I’m sorry that they feel such critiques are “disingenuous.” They don’t get to decide for me how I get to feel about it, any more than I get to tell them to stop supporting the film about their dad. I’ve never been especially bothered by non-Jews playing Jews in film and TV. When I wrote about Amazon Prime’s “The Marvelous Mrs.