Montgomery County-Native Bradley Cooper Preps for Oscar Night

The Philadelphia-born, Jenkintown-raised Cooper is up for Best Actor.

As viewers make the popcorn and snuggle up on the couch, Bradley Cooper is likely checking his tux, checking the limo times and stretching for a long walk down the red carpet. The Oscars are this Sunday. The awards will air at 7 p.m. Sunday on ABC. Up for best actor is the Montgomery County-born and -raised Bradley Cooper. His work in "Silver Linings Playbook" has helped to net the flick eight nominees including best actor, best actress (his co-star Jennifer Lawrence), best picture and best director (David O. Russell). The Philadelphia-based flick was a nice return home for the local man, who grew up in Jenkintown and graduated from Germantown Academy. He said he is looking forward to Oscar night, but win or lose is proud of the movie. "I …

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Movie Review: 'Like Crazy' – Young Love Has Never Been So Uninteresting

This story of young, long-distance love has been better told by other movies.

Have you ever experienced young, long-distance love? If you have, your story is probably a lot more interesting than what happens in Like Crazy, Drake Doremus' new movie on that very subject. The film, a festival darling earlier this year, tells a thin and wispy story about shallow, underdeveloped characters about whom I had a lot of trouble caring. Imagine it as (500) Days of Summer, only with considerably less-appealing characters and minus the wit, humor or creativity. It's also clearly autobiographical, although unlike in 500 Days the director resists the urge to call his former lover a "bitch" by name in the opening titles. Like Crazy tells the story of American Jacob (Anton Yelchin) and British Anna (Felicity Jones), a couple in …

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