The Dan Bernstein saga has come to an end, with Audacy’s 670 The Score canning the longtime Chicago radio host. The radio station announced Bernstein’s termination during Friday’s midday show, with Mitch Rosen, vice president and brand manager of The Score, giving the update. “We want to share some important news with our Score listeners, … Read more
Do not refer to this Chicago sports radio personality and columnist by his last name under any circumstances. Dan Bernstein now has a target on his back after Stoolies took exception to a radio interaction he had with Barstool Eddie, who referred to him as “Bernstein.” Eddie hosted the four-hour afternoon drive radio show last … Read more
Viewers are not raving about Bradley Cooper’s performance … on “CBS Sunday Morning.” The Oscar-nominated “Maestro” star and director got emotional on the show when asked about his film’s subject, the “West Side Story” composer Leonard Bernstein, by one of the late musician’s children. “Do you miss him?” daughter Nina Maria Felicia Bernstein asked the … Read more
Three society women in cocktail dresses stare up at the camera, each with her right fist raised in the Black Panther salute. The cover line: “Free Leonard Bernstein!” This was New York Magazine’s issue of June 8, 1970, which led with Tom Wolfe’s gleeful 25,000-word evisceration of a party that had been held at Bernstein’s … Read more
How much of the film’s score is Bernstein’s music? That cue you hear when Bernstein finds out he’ll be making his conducting debut at the New York Philharmonic? That’s from “On the Waterfront,” the 1954 Marlon Brando drama for which Bernstein wrote the music. That spiky, horn-filled composition that signals tension when Bernstein and a … Read more
What a shame that the major controversy surrounding the movie “Maestro,” the Leonard Bernstein biopic that had its North American premiere Monday night at the New York Film Festival, was over its director-and-star Bradley Cooper’s prosthetic nose. Instead, the uproar should have been about his wildly self-indulgent schmacting as he plays the brilliant composer of … Read more