Apples, Oranges, and License Plates

Apples, oranges and license plates refers to tomorrow night’s Academy Awards, likely to be dominated by the film “Oppenheimer,” and a big coincidence involving another highly regarded and nominated film.

That film is “Maestro,” with Bradley Cooper in the role of Leonard Bernstein.

Mr. Cooper was a guest on “The New Yorker Radio Hour,” hosted by David Resnick on today’s broadcast, surely recorded earlier.

As he spoke rather intensely about Mr. Bernstein, I drove along and noticed the license plate directly in front of me was Len#### (4 #’s, 2 two digit ones).

Maybe Mr. Bernstein was “conducting,” perhaps a message from my father, who often watched and loved Bernstein’s efforts, on this the thirtieth anniversary of my father’s death.

The great Leonard Bernstein, pictured above.