- Bradley Cooper’s Use of Facial Prosthetics in Leonard Bernstein Film Maestro Comes Under Fire Playbill
- The Bradley Cooper “Jewface” controversy is about more than Leonard Bernstein’s nose. Slate
- Bradley Cooper in ‘Maestro’: Is the Prosthetic Nose Controversy Overblown? – LAmag – Culture, Food, Fashion, News & Los Angeles Los Angeles Magazine
- We Should Be Thanking Bradley Cooper and Helen Mirren for Playing Legendary Jews Jewish Journal
- Composer Bernstein’s children defend Bradley Cooper’s prosthetic nose after ‘Maestro’ is criticized The Associated Press
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‘Maestro’ First Trailer: Bradley Cooper Transforms Into Leonard Bernstein in His ‘A Star Is Born’ Directorial Follow-Up – Variety
- ‘Maestro’ First Trailer: Bradley Cooper Transforms Into Leonard Bernstein in His ‘A Star Is Born’ Directorial Follow-Up Variety
- ‘Maestro’ Teaser, Release Date: Bradley Cooper Shines As ‘West Side Story’ Composer Leonard Bernstein In Newest Directorial Effort For Netflix Deadline
- Will Bradley Cooper finally break his Oscar curse with ‘Maestro’? Gold Derby
- Bradley Cooper, Carey Mulligan Star in Trailer for Netflix’s Leonard Bernstein Drama ‘Maestro’ Hollywood Reporter
- Best Actor Watch: Bradley Cooper as the Maestro Awards Daily
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ICAHN ENTERPRISES L.P. (NASDAQ: IEP) SHAREHOLDER CLASS ACTION ALERT: Bernstein Liebhard LLP Announces that a Securities Class Action Lawsuit Has Been Filed Against Icahn Enterprises L.P. (NASDAQ: IEP) – PR Newswire
- ICAHN ENTERPRISES L.P. (NASDAQ: IEP) SHAREHOLDER CLASS ACTION ALERT: Bernstein Liebhard LLP Announces that a Securities Class Action Lawsuit Has Been Filed Against Icahn Enterprises L.P. (NASDAQ: IEP) PR Newswire
- The ‘karmic quality’ of Hindenburg’s war on Carl Icahn just took on a new cast. It’s not just shorting his stock anymore but his bonds, too Yahoo Finance
- Icahn Enterprises: Stay Out Of The Hindenburg Fight (NASDAQ:IEP) Seeking Alpha
- Icahn Enterprises Shareholder Notice – Icahn Enterprises (NASDAQ:IEP) Benzinga
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James Gunn Confirms No Eros
Godzilla vs. Kong 2 has begun filming. Jameela Jamil talks She-Hulk’s Titania. Plus, good news for Moonhaven, and what’s coming on Westworld, Ghosts, and Primal. Spoilers, away!
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
Deadline reports Holt McCallany (Mind Hunter) has joined the cast of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning as Bernstein, the United States Secretary of Defense.
Creepers
Bloody-Disgusting reports Jake Manley, Adeline Rudolph, Francesca Reale, Laurence O’Faurain, Nicholas Hamilton, Javier Botet, Skylan Brooks, and Kai Caster will star in the film adaptation of David Morrell’s Creepers. Manley will play Rick, “the official leader of the Creepers” while Rudolph plays Diane, “the unofficial leader of the group, and Rick’s rebellious, defying, impulsive girlfriend.” Reale has been cast as Cora, “a parkour expert and the key in the group who opens doors wherever they’re closed while keeping everyone honest” while O’Faurain joins as Balenger, “a mysterious, brooding, powerful stranger with a secret and who isn’t who he says he is.” Hamilton is said to play Tod, “leader of the Scavengers, a rival urbex group and who is particularly cruel and vicious” opposite Botet as the supernatural Pale Creature” whose domain is the abandoned Paragon Hotel.” Brooks has been cast as Vernon, “the 4th Creeper, a wise-cracking tech-nerd who is not doing a good job of hiding his true feelings for Cora” while Caster rounds out the cast as JD, a former Creeper “exiled after breaking their code and further betraying them by joining the rival Scavs.”
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Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3
During a recent interview with Extra, James Gunn confirmed Harry Styles’ Eros/Starfox does not appear in Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3.
Nope. I’m setting the record straight. Starfox doesn’t pop up.
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
Meanwhile, David F. Sandberg confirmed Rizwan Manji appears as an unnamed character in Shazam! Fury of the Gods.
Godzilla Vs. Kong 2
Godzilla Vs. Kong 2 is currently filming under the working title Origins.
Kung Fu
Deadline reports Kim Rhodes and Ben Levin have joined the third season of Kung Fu in recurring roles. Rhodes will play Carrie, “the representative of a restaurant investment group that takes an interest in Harmony Dumplings” while Levin has been cast as Bo, “a barista/vigilante whose extracurricular crime fighting leads to a collision with Nicky and her siblings.”
Moonhaven
Moonhaven has been officially renewed for a second season at AMC+. [Deadline]
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
Jameela Jamil described her character Titania as both “annoying” and “unselfconscious” in a recent interview with Screen Rant.
Titania stands out because I think she’s the most annoying of them, actually. I think she almost doesn’t need to use her strength; she could just annoy you to death. And I think that is a superpower that we haven’t really utilized enough.
She’s also very glamorous. I like the fact that she’s a bit curvy, and I like the fact that she’s completely unselfconscious. She’s completely unselfconscious and so, so weird. We’ll see.
Ghosts
Ghosts has released a “this year on…” trailer for its second season premiering on September 29.
Westworld
The hosts endure spiritual conversion in the trailer for “Metanoia,” next week’s episode of Westworld.
Primal
Finally, Spear and Fang battle vikings in a new clip from this week’s episode of Primal.
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Bradley Cooper is unrecognizable as Leonard Bernstein in an upcoming Netflix biopic
He looks important but only vaguely familiar — like a long-lost uncle, or that old guy who plays chess every day in the park.
It’s actor Bradley Cooper, under layers of prosthetic makeup, as aging composer Leonard Bernstein in “Maestro,” a biopic currently filming for Netflix. The streaming service posted the photos Monday on Twitter, where they immediately prompted double takes.
“Dang! He even has white arm hairs! Such attention to detail! Whoever is the makeup/hair person(s) on that film needs to win some major awards,” gushed one user.
Cooper, 47, also directs the movie, his followup to “A Star is Born.” It co-stars Carey Mulligan as Bernstein’s wife, Felicia Montealegre, and Jeremy Strong (Kendall Roy in “Succession”) as critic John Gruen.
The new publicity photos also show Cooper as a younger Bernstein, sharing a smile with Mulligan’s Montealegre.
A legend in the world of musical theater, Bernstein was best known for composing the music for “West Side Story,” the 1957 Broadway show that spawned the 1961 film and Steven Spielberg’s recent remake. He died in 1990 at age 72.
Not much is known yet about “Maestro,” due in 2023. The Internet Movie Database says it’s about “the complex love story of Leonard and Felicia, a story that spans over 30 years — from the time they met in 1946 at a party and continuing through two engagements, a 25 year marriage, and three children.”
Spielberg is one of the film’s producers, as is filmmaker Martin Scorsese. According to Variety, production on the movie began this month.
Mega Comet Arriving From the Oort Cloud Is 85 Miles Wide
Bernardinelli-Bernstein is officially the largest comet ever discovered, according to updated observations of the inbound object.
Oort Cloud comet C/2014 UN271, also known as Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein, measures some 85 miles (137 km) in diameter, give or take 10.5 miles (17 km), reports a research team led by astronomer Emmanuel Lellouch of the Paris Observatory. Their new paper on the mega comet has been accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics Letters, and you can sneak a peak of the preprint at the arXiv.
These latest observations confirm that Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein is the largest Oort Cloud object ever detected, as it’s nearly twice as big as comet Hale-Bopp (observed in 1997), the nucleus of which measured between 25 and 50 miles (40 and 80 km) wide. It’s also bigger than Comet Sarabat (observed in 1729), which had a nucleus measuring somewhere around 62 miles (100 km) in diameter.
Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein is currently inbound from the Oort Cloud, a distant region of the solar system known for packing billions and possibly trillions of icy objects. The comet will make its closest approach to Earth in 2031, when it will come to within 11 au of the Sun (1 billion miles), in which 1 au is the average distance from Earth to the Sun. The comet, coming no closer than Saturn, won’t likely be visible to the unaided eye, but astronomers will be keeping a close watch, as it’s turning out to be a rather extraordinary object.
Named after its discoverers, Pedro Bernardinelli and Gary Bernstein from the Dark Energy Survey, the comet is special for several reasons. Astronomers first detected the inbound object when it was still very far away—some 29 au from the Sun (2.7 billion miles). That’s as far out as the orbit of Neptune, but astronomers didn’t appreciate its significance until it came to within 24 au of the Sun (2.2 billion miles), at which time it began to display distinctive cometary activity. Researchers with Las Cumbres Observatory confirmed its cometary nature in June 2021. Its remarkable brightness indicated an object of enormous size, with preliminary estimates pointing to an object between 62 and 230 miles (100 and 370 kilometers) wide.
For the new study, Lellouch and his colleagues used the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile to refine the comet’s size and reflectivity, or albedo. They did so on August 8, 2021, when Bernardinelli-Bernstein was 20 au from the Sun (1.86 billion miles). The team honed in on microwave radiation leaking out from the comet’s nucleus, while taking care to exclude radiation produced by the surrounding cloud of dust.
These thermal emissions pointed to the 85-mile (137 km) diameter, with a lower bound of 75 miles (120 km) and an upper bound of 96 miles (154 km). The large error bar is on account of uncertainties having to do with the object’s shape and reflectivity. Future observations should refine these estimates further.
The estimated albedo of 5.3% now represents the most distant measurement yet of a comet’s reflectivity. With the size of the nucleus now better defined, astronomers will be able to measure how much material the comet will lose during its trip around the Sun.
Bernardinelli-Bernstein is not the 230-mile behemoth suggested by preliminary measurements, but it’s still gigantic. As it nears the Sun, volatiles on its surface, especially ice, will increasingly sublimate, turning directly from solid into gas. This could give the comet a distinctive coma and tail, but we’ll have to wait a few more years to know for sure. We’ll be watching.
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Own everything but bubble assets tech, crypto: investor Rich Bernstein
Institutional Investor hall of famer Rich Bernstein is a market bull whose playbook excludes some of Wall Street’s most popular groups.
He blames a risky see-saw dynamic playing out in the marketplace.
“On one side, we have all that I would call the bubble assets: tech, innovation disruption, cryptocurrencies,” the Richard Bernstein Advisors CEO and CIO told CNBC’s “Trading Nation” on Friday. “On the other side of this see-saw, you have literally everything else in the world. I think if you’re looking at 2022 into 2023, you want to be in the everything else in the world side of that see-saw.”
Bernstein believes a scarcity of capital will spell opportunities.
“That’s where your returns are higher,” he said.
His number one pick is energy, a group he listed as a top play coming into 2021. Earlier this year, Bernstein called oil the most ignored bull market. And now, he believes it could be the growth group of 2022.
The Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund, which tracks the group, is already up 51% so far this year.
In a special note to CNBC, Bernstein wrote “The last time the FCF [free cash flow] yield for the energy sector was this high relative to either the market or the Tech sector was around the Tech Bubble, and energy outperformed for a decade. The sector’s dividend yield is >3X the S&P 500’s dividend yield.”
Bernstein, who ran strategy at Merrill Lynch, warns today’s “bubble assets” could dramatically hurt investors just like the early 2000s.
“Valuations are very high and what you have to remember is the valuation is more important than the story,” he said.
He acknowledges stories told about the internet and cellular communications during the 2000 tech bubble became a reality over the next decade. But it took years to collect the profits.
“If you invested in the Nasdaq 100, which were the real companies at the time, it took you 14 years to break even,” said Bernstein. “Something tells me that the people today are not paying attention to valuations, but also aren’t thinking it’s going to take them 14 years to break even.”
Crypto as a ‘monster’ bubble
Bernstein also sees cryptocurrency as a major problem. Last June on “Trading Nation,” he warned the rush to own bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies was becoming dangerously parabolic.
“Cryptos are the biggest financial bubble ever in history,” said Bernstein. “This is just a monster one.”
As of Friday’s market close, bitcoin is off about 30% over the past month. It’s still up 63% so far this year.
Bernstein speculates bitcoin could fall as much as 90% just like some tech stocks during the 2000 bubble.
“I think one wants to wait to look at the true fundamentals, and look at the valuations before deciding that this is all over,” Bernstein said.
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