Bradley Cooper defended his movie “Maestro” against criticism that the prosthetic nose he wears to play Leonard Bernstein is insulting to Jewish people. “I thought, ‘Maybe we don’t need ...

When backlash over Bradley Cooper’s nose prosthetic in “Maestro” first erupted in August ahead of the film’s world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, Cooper himself could not speak out ...

Bradley Cooper said the backlash over his prosthetic nose in “Maestro” didn’t catch him “off guard” and is standing by his decision to emulate famed conductor Leonard Bernstein’s face.

Here, two Jewish journalists weigh in on the furor, and address the question: is Bradley Cooper's prosthetic nose in Maestro antisemitic, or is the whole controversy overblown? "No actor should be ...

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was the fake nose that Bradley Cooper wears to approximate fabled composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein. Not bothered by Cooper’s reverse nose-job were Berenstein’s own children ...