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...If the American dream was always equal parts stardust and slogging hard work, both have their place in a very American movie: Maestro, the electric biopic of composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein....
...One essential element is a subject with a high level of charisma, and nobody offered more of that than American conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein....
...“[Blavatnik] has a real love of the arts and the entertainment industry.”...
...“I love you to death, Taylor,” he said, brandishing the award. (Antonoff has worked with Swift since her 2014 album 1989.) “Lana, wherever you are, I love you so much,” he also declared....
...The first major shift comes with the arrival of Felicia Montealegre, the love of Bernstein’s life in a life of many lovers. In many ways, this is Lenny and Felicia’s story....
...I have so many style icons: Gianni Agnelli, Michael Chow, Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen, Keanu Reeves, Johnny Depp… but Agnelli came to my mind first. He was so elegant but so original....
...Sir Leonard Blavatnik’s sports media group DAZN hired former Amazon and Twitch executive Walker Jacobs as global chief revenue officer....
...Dance Me to the End of Love”....
...I also love Leonard Cohen, who wrote the most beautiful words for his songs. He is a true poet....
...Seventeen Leonard Cohen songs, 14 hyper-athletic dancers, catwalk-slick production values: Ballets Jazz Montréal’s 2017 hit Dance Me has a lot going for it, but its London premiere at Sadler’s Wells was...
...Litquidity represents comedic cocaine: hoovered up by those who love Wall Street and by those who love to hate it....
...Afterwards, you can have a drink in the adjoining bar under Margate resident Tracey Emin’s neon More Love sign....
...But anyone who loves physical bookshops, with their dusty bounties and shelves full of possibility, is likely to recognise the place of love the film comes from....
...Not since Leonard Bast, the impoverished autodidact killed by a collapsing bookshelf in EM Forster’s Howard’s End, had household furniture been used so murderously in English literature to symbolise the...
...Rebecca WatsonYeah, I didn’t expect to love it. And spoiler: I didn’t love it. I thought for a novel that’s yeah, told by what, 36 people, it was surprisingly flat to me....
...People come to me and say, ‘Oh, I love your energy!’ But it’s not just about energy . . . it also has to be meaningful. You need to be able to bring out the best in people, to motivate and inspire.”...
...Having been lambasted last month for his decision to wear a fake nose to play Leonard Bernstein in the biopic Maestro, Bradley Cooper has since emerged from Venice as an all-conquering auteur....
...In Montreal, he discovered Leonard Cohen. “For me, there is nothing better in the world. He talks about the mysteries of life,” says Iacobescu. “A lot of the songs are gloomy and sad....
...So I think a lot of the best biopics and recent one I thought was terrific was Maestro, the film about Leonard Bernstein, right?...
...I’ve been working for a beer brand, which is the area I’d love to go into. Is it sensible or even feasible to work in start-ups — and especially alcohol start-ups — with MS?...
...Leonard Cohen’s last album You Want It Darker comes to mind, with its synagogue choir and reckoning with Jewish faith....
...He was raised on the love of canines and women’s magazines but lost the use of his legs almost entirely....
...Politics collide with passion in a tale of love in a fraught climate....
...I don’t just love Lasdun. As a Brit, I’m actually proud of it....
...She writes in a way that is a little amused by life and love – there’s a touch of irony and self-deprecation that the English love,” he explains....
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