Rick Kogan: Bradley Cooper’s next screen role will be the cantankerous Nelson Algren

Rick Kogan: Bradley Cooper’s next screen role will be the cantankerous Nelson Algren

In the wake of his failure to grab an Oscar for playing Leonard Bernstein in “Maestro,” Bradley Cooper plans to return to the biopic business by portraying the Chicago writer Nelson Algren, focusing on his 17-year love affair with that…

Column: Bradley Cooper’s next screen role will be the cantankerous Nelson Algren

In the wake of his failure to grab an Oscar for playing Leonard Bernstein in “Maestro,” Bradley Cooper plans to return to the bio-pic business by portraying the Chicago writer Nelson Algren, focusing on his 17-year love affair with that French writer-feminist Simone de Beauvoir, author of “The Second Sex,” who is said to be played by French actress Elsa Zylberstein. Good luck with all that. I knew Nelson Algren. He was a close friend of my paren…