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You can reduce your risk of dementia. "You can substantially reduce your risk through the lifestyle choices you make," says Dr. Jonathan Rosand, a neurologist and co-founder of the McCance Center for Brain Health at Massachusetts General Hospital. Sponsor Message To calculate your brain care score, you rate yourself on 12 different risk factors ranging from diet, alcohol consumption, smoking, …

Blaze Bernstein killing: Samuel Woodward sentenced to life for hate crime in the killing of a gay college student

Santa Ana AP — A California man convicted of stabbing to death a gay University of Pennsylvania student in an act of hate was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole. Samuel Woodward, 27, was sentenced in a Southern California courtroom at the end of an all-day hearing for the murder of Blaze Bernstein nearly seven years ago. There …

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Orange County man receives life sentence for hate-motivated murder

One of 2023’s most audacious films was a queasy drama where a self-serious actor attempted to slip into the physicality of a real-life subject in an ill-judged body-snatch for a vanity biopic. Maestro felt more like a big-screen slow clap for Bradley Cooper’s multitasking than Leonard Bernstein’s music. Leonard Bernstein’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Hollywood Boulevard …

Maestro review: Bradley Cooper explores the life of a 20th century musical giant in ambitious Leonard Bernstein biopic

No one could accuse Bradley Cooper of lacking big-screen ambition. As Bradley Cooper brings Leonard Bernstein to life in the new biopic Maestro, Australian musicians weigh in on his performance. Inhabiting almost 50 years of Bernstein's life, Cooper delivers a rich, immersive performance, transforming himself both physically — makeup designer Kazu Hiro's work goes far beyond that much-publicised proboscis — …

Maestro review: Bradley Cooper's Bernstein biopic is a hit Netflix Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan shine in Cooper's ambitious and sincere drama of Leonard Bernstein's life, proving the director is to be taken seriously, writes Nicholas Barber. Bradley Cooper's biopic of Leonard Bernstein revolves around one key question: is it possible to have it all? Mulligan's performance is a sparkling …

Broadway legend Chita Rivera dances through her life in a new memoir

Broadway legend Chita Rivera dances through her life in a new memoir HarperCollins An admirer once said Chita Rivera had "the fastest feet on Broadway." At age 90, she's a legendary dancer and proved it in the big musicals of her day — Bye Bye Birdie, Can Can, Chicago, and the biggest — West Side Story. Sponsor Message When the …

Netflix has released the first images from its upcoming film "Maestro", based on the life of legendary composer Leonard Bernstein and starring Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan. The streamer on Monday shared four pictures from the set of "Maestro" on social media which trace the life of a young Bernstein with his wife Felicia. "Maestro" also marks Cooper's first directorial …

For some of us, returning to pre-COVID life is turning out to be harder than we expected

Shelby Bernstein is eager for life to return to normal, but she feels anxiety seeing people gather at parks without masks or dining at outdoor restaurants. “Maybe it’s like Stockholm syndrome, except our captor is the coronavirus,” she said. “We’re all so used to the mental and physical havoc it wreaked upon us that any sense of normalcy feels wrong.” …