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And thousands of families that survived sandy say they havefraud. I was like, how can you tell me that youre not going to cover this, that im not going to get the full amount of my insurance . I says, you got my payments every month. Alfonsi tonight, an investigation into why so many families didnt get the help they deserved and what is being done about it. So, are you going to make it right . Kroft very few actors have ever had a year like the one Bradley Cooper is having. Hi kroft in hollywood, there was all the hoopla for his third oscar nomination in as many years for his performance in american sniper. Shes got a grenade. Shes got an rkg, russian grenade. Kroft across the continent in new york, he was the toast of broadway in the elephant man, where his life is a little simpler. No paparazzi, people dont bug you . No, they get. They get me on the way from where i live to the. To the subway station. But for some reason, they dont want to spend the 2. 50 and ride the subway with me. So, i lose them in the subway. Im steve kroft. Im lesley stahl. Im morley safer. Im bill whitaker. Im sharyn alfonsi. Im scott pelley. Those stories tonight on 60 minutes. Cbs money watch update sponsored by lincoln financial. Calling all chief life officers. Glor good evening. The embattled c. E. O. S of Deutsche Bank announced their resignations today and will be replaced. Netflix will launch in italy spain and portugal this fall, and its believed the triple crown winner American Pharoah could generate up to 100 millinion breeding fees. Im jeff glor, cbs news. Thanks for calling angies list. How may i help you . I heard i could call angies list if i needed work done around my house at a fair price. You heard right, just tell us what you need done and well find a top rated provider to take care of it. So i could get a faulty light switch fixed . Yup or have a guy refinish my floors . 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But, as we first reported in january, none has gone further or faster into the legal retail weed business than colorado. We wanted to know how the experiment is going, so we headed to denver, the epicenter of a Marijuana Industry thats now in full bloom. Welcome to the mile high city, where marijuana, long a symbol of the counter culture, now is just a part of everyday culture. Its a thursday night in downtown denver, and we were invited to a marijuana food and wine pairing catering to young professionals. You might expect to see the band toking up, but here everybody is. The food is sprinkled with marijuana, the wine infused with a strain called killer queen. Budtender leo dunaev selected it for the evening. Leo dunaev because of the mellowness of the strain, there isnt any kind of anxiety attached to it, so thats why we have such a crowd of happy and fantastic people. And what were doing there, with that machine, is. It creates smoke that is cooled to minus ten degrees. And that smoke is then blown into this glass. And that allows the wine to open up and really bring in the fruitforward qualities of it. Whitaker those who might remember pot from the 70s the marijuana grown and sold in colorado today is up to ten times stronger. Theres a healthy appetite for the Rocky Mountain high, and no shortage of stores to supply the demand. Theres the corner store in denver. 1. 73. Whitaker . A highend boutique in aspen right around the corner from prada and gucci. Colorado has licensed more than 300 recreational dispensaries, ringing up 303 million in sales last year; 52 million in tax revenue. This is a lot of pot. This is industrial scale. Meg sanders it is. Whitaker how many rooms like this do you have . Sanders when were fully finished with our construction well have 12 like this. Whitaker meg sanders is a new breed of cannabis c. E. O. Driven to push marijuana into the mainstream. A suburban mother of two, she left a private equity firm to run mindful, a chain of four Retail Stores that sells recreational and medicinal pot. All of this is legal. Thats just mindblowing. Sanders it is. Whitaker meg, did you ever think you would be here doing this . Sanders no, never in a million years. I was working in a small financial office, and there just wasnt a lot of upward growth. And what better opportunity than to jump into a fledgling industry, something that well never see again in our lifetime. Whitaker her 44,000square foot marijuana factory is cutting edge. Automated water and nutrient systems feed the plants. Lighting mimics the seasons so plants can be harvested year round. All this in a warehouse right across the street from a Denver Police station. 60 mindful employees cultivate trim, and package up to 500 pounds of marijuana every month. This is not somebodys backyard. This is not some stoners basement. This is a big business. Sanders this is industrial agriculture, absolutely. Commercial. Commercial grow right here. Whitaker all of this still is illegal at the federal level. The Justice Department is watching closely. The feds say they wont intervene as long as colorados recreational pot doesnt fall into the hands of kids or criminals, or cross state lines. With marijuanas growing acceptance in colorado, sanders says shes comfortable as a cannabis capitalist. Sanders i have a massive engineering feat for you. Alijah smith all right. Whitaker her 24yearold son alijah works with her at mindful. She says parents at her daughters middle school seem more curious than critical of her business. Do you have any concerns that your job is sending the wrong signal to your 13yearold daughter . Sanders im not concerned about that. Whitaker at all . Sanders im not. This isnt Carte Blanche oh because i work here, everybody should have access to it, and that includes her. We have very good conversations about it. She knows. She knows. Whitaker i mean, you say youre a business person. I think some parents would look at this and say, shes just peddling drugs. Sanders i can tell you that the drug dealer. Illegal drug dealer on the corner in any state in this nation isnt carding, isnt checking your i. D. , isnt making sure you have a medical marijuana card or youre over 21. This industry does it every day the stats show it. Weve done a phenomenal job. Whitaker mindful expects to rake in 18 million this year, but its not easy money. Colorado requires every plant grown by a licensed operator to be tracked from seed to sale. Each one has a barcoded radio frequency i. D. Tag and is logged into a statewide database. Cameras watch it all. The goal is to keep every bud and bit off the black market. Greenwood Village Police chief john jackson isnt sold. John jackson Law Enforcement is really trying to do the right thing here. Its different, and its requiring a mind change or shift on our part. Whitaker jackson is president of the Colorado Association of chiefs of police. He says theres still illegal pot on the streets from underground dealers who dont have to levy 28 in state taxes. Jackson theres a common belief that, by legalizing it, you will get rid of the black market. I can resoundly say that the black market is alive and doing well. Whitaker its still cheaper to buy it from the. The dealer on the street than to buy it in the store . Jackson certainly. You know, weve created an entire industry here. And im going to be honest with you there are some very responsible people that are involved. And its like anything else in society. Youve got a few people that are really making it hard for the others, and maybe use colorado as a platform to simply provide their marijuana to the rest of the country. Whitaker this is what hes talking about. In october, Denver Police and the d. E. A. Raided several warehouse operations that were allegedly growing marijuana destined for out of state. Neighbors nebraska and oklahoma are suing to have the u. S. Supreme court declare colorados recreational pot market unconstitutional, claiming marijuana is crossing their borders. Its too early to say if other problems are taking root. Colorado is just now starting to collect and analyze data on pots impact on the state. Andrew freedman i do worry about if we are irreparably harming colorado. And its. Its something that will take years to suss out. Whitaker this babyfaced 31 yearold, andrew freedman, is colorados marijuana czar. Hes a harvard law grad, hand picked by Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper to oversee the rollout of legalized recreational pot. There is no roadmap. I mean, you guys are racing ahead at, you know, 1,000 miles an hour, and youre trying to work this out on the fly. How do you do that . Freedman its an unbelievable challenge. Within one year, we wanted to get our culture up to speed. What is the right amount to imbibe or to smoke and drive . Whats appropriate around kids . Whats appropriate in public . And society had never weighed in on these things before. Okay, anything else on caregivers . Black market, gray market where were going on it . Whitaker he regularly calls together the department he revenue, health, education all the state agencies involved with marijuana trying to balance the demands of the people with Public Safety and the law. Its legal here, but outside of colorado, its still illegal. Its a federally illegal drug. How do you square those two . Freedman well, it is a round peg in a square hole. It takes everybody being creative in ways they havent been creative before, and knowing that, at any time, the federal government could come and shut us down, tell us that what were doing is illegal in their eyes. Whitaker you still think thats possible . Freedman sure. Its completely possible that, in a few years, somebody comes around and says. A new president says, were not okay with you doing this. Whitaker they know theyre under a microscope. Thats why colorado was quick to act when it bit into trouble with edibles marijuana candies, cookies, and other infused foods. Just three months into legalization, a 19yearold College Student visiting denver leapt to his death from a Hotel Balcony after eating a potlaced cookie. The coroners reported noted marijuana intoxication as a significant contributing factor. Freedman i think one of the things we didnt see coming was that people were going to overdose on edibles. And were not going to try to hide that problem. New rules and regulations came out faster than i think you ever see State Government do something. Whitaker new rules placed immediate limits on the amount of t. H. C. , marijuanas major psychoactive ingredient, allowed in edibles, and required new labeling detailing the potency of each serving. But the biggest cloud over the industry is banking. As long as the federal government continues to count pot proceeds as illegal drug money, most banks wont touch it. So colorados billiondollar Marijuana Industry is conducted almost entirely in cash. Thats why meg sanders keeps a twoton safe. So, your payroll was in cash . Sanders payroll, rent. Whitaker taxes . Sanders taxes, licensing fees, home depot, vendors, you name it, our. Our electrician, absolutely. Whitaker all in cash . Sanders absolutely. From a Public Safety standpoint, its definitely the number one issue that this industry faces. John hickenlooper if you want to guarantee that a fledgling industry becomes corrupt and. And, you know becomes populated with gang activity, make it all cash right. Thats as old as al capone right. Cash creates corruption. Whitaker Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper says a partial solution might be a new state chartered cannabis credit union. Hes urging the federal government to approve it. Still, despite the problems, governor hickenlooper says hes encouraged by the rollout of this green experiment colorado voters wanted. In the beginning, you didnt think it was a good idea . Hickenlooper no, i opposed it, you know, and i opposed it and i think even after the election, if id had a magic wand and i could wave the wand i probably wouldve reversed it and. And had the initiative fail. But now, i look at it and im. Im not so sure id do that, even if i had such a wand. I mean, i think weve made a lot of progress. And, you know, still a lot of work to be done. But i think we might actually create a system that. That can work. All right, i will have an eighth of that. Whitaker meg sanders says marijuana is good for business. Thats pretty groovy, dude. Whitaker . And good for colorado. Are you seeing a marijuana effect on the economy here . Sanders absolutely. You cant find an empty warehouse in the city of denver, really. I mean, you just cant. And then, think of the ripple effect. I mean, we affect a ton of businesses security, marketing, you know, web hosting. You name. Were a business just like anybody else. We have the same needs. Whitaker today, you can walk into a mindful dispensary and buy a joint like this for only 10. Business is good. Sanders is planning to expand. Sanders were creating. Were saying, please, trust us. We know that we can do this right. Whitaker i do remember, when this was rolled out, everyone thought that. That the sky was going to fall. Sanders its still there. laughs it didnt fall. And business is thriving. And the customers are still coming through the door. So clearly, if im looking at my business and im looking at those around me, the consumer is saying, yeah, this works. Whitaker since our story first aired, at least three more lawsuits have been filed in federal court to stop colorados recreational sales. But the market continues to grow. The latest figures show consumers bought 43 million worth of recreational pot in march, a new monthly high. Meet joel and Lisa Schneider of bud and breakfast at 60minutesovertime. Com. Sponsored by pfizer. Was made for Better Things than the pain, stiffness and joint damage of moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. Before you and your rheumatologist decide on a biologic ask if xeljanz is right for you. Xeljanz is a small pill, not an injection or infusion for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well. Xeljanz can relieve ra symptoms and help stop further joint damage. Xeljanz can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. Serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers have happened in patients taking xeljanz. 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What they didnt expect was just how bad sandy turned out to be 117 deaths, and damage estimated at more than 60 billion, second only to katrina. More than twoandahalf years later, sandy victims have been hit by Something Else they didnt expect the storm after the storm. As we first reported in march, many people say they have been cheated out of their insurance claims. Thousands of claims have still not been resolved, and there is evidence that many homeowners were victims of what appears to be widescale fraud, where original damage reports were later changed to make it look like the damage wasnt as bad. Making matters worse, appeals to the federal agency in charge of all of this, fema, went nowhere. Hurricane sandy damaged or destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes and rearranged neighborhoods. Long beach, new york, was one of them. This was bob kaibles house the next day. The yellow one, with a sand dune blocking his front door. Kaible the beaches decided that they didnt want to be there anymore and they came to pay a visit. And thats what happened. And we got back to the house and we were devastated. Alfonsi what was that like to walk into your house for the first time . Kaible everything that you worked so hard in your life to get is now gone. Alfonsi but you had Flood Insurance. Kaible uhhuh. Alfonsi youd pay for every month. Kaible absolutely. Alfonsi did you think you were okay . Kaible sure. I mean, thats what you pay insurance for. Alfonsi the city condemned kaibles home, saying it was damaged beyond repair. The house had been knocked off its foundation. His Insurance Company wright flood sent an engineer to inspect the damage. Three weeks later, the kaibles couldnt have been more surprised. Kaible i get the engineering report that theres no structural damage to the house. So im going like, what do you mean theres no structural damage . The house is not what it was before. Alfonsi the Insurance Company agreed to send someone back out to the house. Surprisingly, it was the same engineer, george hernemar, who worked for a Company Called u. S. Forensic. Kaible i said, george, how could you write a report like that . He goes, its not my report. I said, what. What do you mean its not your report . He says, wait here. He goes to the trunk of his car, goes. Picks up the report and brings it into the house. He says, this is the report i wrote. Alfonsi bob kaible got out his phone and took a picture of georges original report. It plainly said there was structural damage to the house. But this is the report the Insurance Company sent to kaible when they denied his claim. Not structurally damaged. They said the damage was long term, meaning it existed before Hurricane Sandy. The kaibles Insurance Company wright flood, the largest provider of Flood Insurance in the country, paid him just 79,000 of his 250,000 policy. Kaible we had a ive had estimates of 300,000 to 350,000 to rebuild the house. What am i going to do . Alfonsi bob kaibles house was torn down after he sold it for a loss, and he believes it was because of a falsified engineering report. The photo kaible took was solid proof for many other sandy victims who were struggling with similar situations. How many houses do you see that are empty . Kaible on this block . Probably half of them. Alfonsi the kaibles pleaded to a Vice President at their Insurance Company and passed on their evidence. But the company denied full payment, arguing subsequent reports supported them. With frustration as high as the water marks in their home, the kaibles filed a lawsuit. That suit drew the attention of a texas trial lawyer who had never been to long beach, but got on his plane in a hurry. Steve mostyn has won billions fighting Insurance Companies and when he heard about bob kaibles case, he says he had a gut feeling the kaible family wasnt alone. Sure enough, he says, his Houston Office is now flooded with paperwork from victims of the superstorm. Mostyn theres been systematic fraud on the policy holders whove filed flood claims from sandy. Alfonsi whats the fraud . Mostyn the fraud is taking engineers reports and changing them from saying there was structural damage to saying theres no structural damage, or giving the engineers a form to fill out that already has the conclusion of no structural damage. Alfonsi why would anyone do that . Mostyn save money. The biggest ticket item inside a claim, for a flood claim, is the structural damage. And so when they dont pay for structural damage, they save hundreds of thousands of dollars on each claim. Alfonsi of the thousands of cases lawyer steve mostyn says hes found, electrician john mero and his wife gails is the most revealing. Their house is in east rockaway, new york. What was this street like in the days. The day after sandy . Gail mero sixfoothigh water in the street. John mero well, the day after, it was like armageddon. Alfonsi the meros house had to be torn down after the storm. Their Insurance Company paid them just 80,000. And now, theyre buried in debt after rebuilding their home. John mero i was like, how can you tell me that youre not going to cover this, that im not going to get the full amount of my insurance . I says. You got my payments every month. Said its time for you to pay and heres what youre going to tell me. Alfonsi it was two years later that the meros felt a second wave hit them, when the engineer who assessed their home after the storm called them out of the blue. John mero the engineer sent his report in to the Insurance Company saying that the house was damaged due to flood. The structural damage is caused by the flood. And from what i understand, the Insurance Company changed it changed his words, without him knowing. Alfonsi this is andrew braum, the engineer who could no longer stay silent. Braum told us not only were changes made to his engineering reports, but he was asked to cover it up. He showed us the original report hed written about the damage to john and gail meros house. Andrew braum we assess in the conclusions hydrodynamic forces, hydrostatic forces, due to the flood, caused a cracking and shifting throughout the foundation. Alfonsi so youre saying the flood caused this damage . Braum correct. And then, in the revised or the altered report, it says, settlement due to consolidation of soil caused the Foundation Wall to crack. Thats not what i wrote; its completely altered. Alfonsi braum inspected more than 180 homes after sandy working for a Company Called hi rise engineering. After he discovered the changes made to the report he wrote about the meros home, he went back to check all the copies of his original reports against the final copies that the homeowners received. How many of those reports were doctored . Braum at least 175 of them or approximately 96 , is the number that i calculated. Alfonsi 175 of your reports were doctored . Braum correct. They were altered. Alfonsi and the ones that werent changed . Braum the ones that werent changed, interestingly, were ones where i recommended that no repairs are required. Alfonsi braum says hirise engineering pressured him to sign an affidavit saying he agreed with their final reports. He says he ignored the request and never did it. Do you think they were trying to cover up something . Braum now knowing what i know, yes. Alfonsi what do you think was going on . Braum they figured out that they altered all those reports. And they wanted to hurry up and have. They called me braum braum, get braum to sign off on this quick. So if braum wasnt thinking or if braum didnt care, he would just sign his name 200something times, and they were off the hook. And that wasnt happening with me. Alfonsi insu have argued the reason the engineering reports were changed was to allow for a peer review process, a Standard Practice in the insurance industry. Braum peer review to me would be amongst my peers of an equal licensing or education level and review a report and discuss it. But not peer review when i send my final report and its changed without my knowledge. Thats not peer review. Alfonsi in february, the offices of hirise engineering were raided by the new York Attorney generals office, which is conducting a criminal investigation into hirise, as well as the Insurance Companies that hired them. Hirise, wright flood, and u. S. Forensic all declined our requests for an interview. They have denied allegations of criminal activity and all three say they are cooperating with the investigation. More than 2,000 sandy victims have filed lawsuits in federal courts. Mostyn you know, we thought originally it might be one engineer, right . And then we find multiple engineers inside the same company. And as we dug into it, its other engineering companies. Well, then you got to start looking for a different common denominator. Alfonsi and in this case all of those companies are overseen by fema, the federal Emergency Management agency. More than five million homeowners living in designated flood zones all around the country are required to buy Flood Insurance policies backed by fema and taxpayer money. Brad kieserman is the new head of femas flood program. We spoke to him when hed been on the job just three weeks. Hes already had to answer to allegations of fraud and criminal activity at the expense of some of sandys hardesthit families. Brad kieserman im not going to sit here and conceal the fact that it happened. Because in the last three weeks, ive seen evidence of it. Alfonsi you say youve seen evidence of these fraudulent reports. Kieserman yes. Alfonsi youve seen evidence of what could be criminal activity by using unlicensed engineers . Kieserman yes, which is why i referred it to the inspector general. Alfonsi when did fema learn that there may be a problem here, that fraudulent reports may be used to deny claims . Kieserman i think that there were signals. Based on what ive seen, if you will, signals in late 2013 early 2014 that there were problems that our survivors were experiencing with engineering, with the claims process, with appeals. But those were signals. And i think those signals got louder, if you will. Alfonsi it was more than signals. This is. This is a letter to fema in the summer of 2013 that clearly says that the person conducting, doing the inspections here wasnt a licensed engineer. This is to fema. Kieserman so. Alfonsi . Inin the summer of 2013. Kieserman so. Youre right. This is dated august 19, 2013. And, you know, ive seen this. Alfonsi the document, sent to fema, was an appeal from another family who felt badly cheated by their Insurance Company. In it they provide proof that the engineer who inspected their home, working for the firm u. S. Forensic, was not licensed to work in new york. Kieserman this upset me very much. Because this piece of information, had it been elevated in the agency, would have been very helpful in helping us help people earlier. Alfonsi why wasnt it elevated in the agency . I mean, this to me is the type of thing you run to the boss kieserman this would be the type of thing that i would run to the boss with. And i need to find out why that didnt happen. Alfonsi but as far as you know, no one at fema ever said to the Insurance Companies, ever said to the engineering companies, keep the claims down . Kieserman as far as i know no one at fema has ever done that. Alfonsi but lawyers paid for by fema have gone after sandy survivors in court, accusing them of fraud. Bob kaible, who took the photo of his altered engineering report, was accused in court of stealing the report done on his own home, which he denies. We have homeowners who went through the appeals process. And the attorneys who are being paid for by fema called them thieves, said they were trying to conduct fraud. Those are your dogs at the end of the leash. Do you take any responsibility for that . Kieserman yes, i take responsibility for the fact that when fema funds activities, the people who are getting paid by those funds need to behave in a professional, ethical manner. Alfonsi more than two and a half years after sandy neighborhoods still bear the scars of the storm, but settlement talks are underway. Femas Brad Kieserman and a team of attorneys have flown to texas to negotiate with steve mostyn to settle more than 2,000 sandy claims. These people are Truck Drivers nurses, firefighters. They said they fought as much as they could. And they feel like fema just gutted them. They just gutted them. Kieserman the fact that thats the experience they had with their Insurance Companies their engineers, their adjusters in a femafunded program, thats unacceptable. Alfonsi so are you going to make it right . Kieserman i am. As you know, im doing everything i can in the midst of negotiations to try to make that right. Lets face it, i dont have unlimited authority. I cant wave a magic wand and make all of this right for everyone. Alfonsi this past week after four months on the job Brad Kieserman announced he is leaving his post at fema to work at the red cross. He told us he delivered on his promises to make it right for sandy victims. But since our story first aired, only a handful of homeowners have received new settlement checks. And now our cbs sports update brought to you by leer ca. Davidlingmere collected his first pga tour win on the third hole of a playoff over justin rose. 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Today, you have no excuse. As we first reported in february, he had quite a year, winning acclaim for two roles that couldnt be more different one on stage, portraying a sensitive soul with a horrible affliction. Hes up for best actor for that role at tonights tony awards. And the other on film as a stoic, solitary navy seal in Clint Eastwoods american sniper, which earned cooper his Third Academy award nomination in as many years, something only ten male actors have ever done before. It puts him on a list with names like marlon brando, jack nicholson, spencer tracy, and gregory peck. And it announces his arrival not just as a major movie star but as a committed, talented and versatile actor. A friend of yours said, i think theres part of bradley that doesnt quite believe this has happened to him. Bradley cooper well, believe it, inasmuch as i believe im sitting here, talking to you. But the thrills still there. Dont get me wrong the thrill is still massive, you know . I mean, i. I wake up very happy every day, ill tell you that. Kroft its where Bradley Cooper wakes up these days thats more problematic. For the past few weeks, hes been parachuting into l. A. For 24hour binges of obligatory preoscar hoopla. This year, its american sniper, which well get to later. The rest of the week, he wakes up 2,700 miles away in new york. Thats him with the backpack the toast of broadway, locked into one, sometimes two performances a day of the elephant man. Cooper you know, i always sort of talk about, to myself at least, or to my friends, about wanting to just keep life very simple. Ive found it most simple here in new york. You know, its basically i have a. In a way, a ninetofive job, you know . I do eight shows a week. I live in new york city. I get to walk everywhere, and you know, just be one of the people of the city. And its a. Actually wonderful. Kroft you can move around all right . Cooper oh, yeah. I mean, theres nobody with me. I just came here, you know . I. I do everything on my own. So, its great. Kroft and no paparazzi . People dont bug you . Cooper no, they get. They get me on the way from where i live to the. To the subway station. But for some reason, they dont want to spend the 2. 50 and ride the subway with me. And so, i lose them in the subway. Kroft the elephant man has been a huge success, smashing attendance records, and winning cooper excellent reviews from broadways toughest critics for a role thats been part of his consciousness for decades. At age 12, he decided he wanted to be an actor after watching the movie version. It tells the story of john merrick, a horribly deformed british man with a saintly soul whos rescued from a 19th century freak show and given sanctuary at a london hospital. 28 years later, cooper has produced, cast, and arranged the financing for the current broadway production. You play john merrick . Cooper yeah. Kroft without any makeup . Without any prosthesis . Cooper uhhuh. Kroft just you, Bradley Cooper . Cooper yeah. Kroft and you have to convince the audience that youre him . Cooper yeah. Kroft how do you do that . Cooper by believing im him. Thats how i do it. If im acting like im him or i dont quite make that leap of faith, theres absolutely no way youre going to believe it. I had to do a tremendous amount of work to get to a place where i do believe im him. Kroft part of the work was 20 years of research, and part of it is a performance unlike any he has ever given. The transformation from cooper to merrick is shared by the audience in one of the early scenes. Cooper as the doctor is speaking to the pathological society, which actually is the audience of the play, and you see an actual photograph of Joseph Merrick in between us, he is then describing all of his afflictions. Doctor from the upper jaw that projected another massive bone. Cooper and then i then interpret each one in a physical manner. Doctor the right hand was large and clumsy, a fin or paddle rather than a hand. Cooper almost mimicry, almost like a mime. Doctor to add a further burden to his trouble, the wretched man, when a boy developed hip disease, which left his permanently lame so that he would only walk with a stick. Cooper and once hes finished with that presentation, im fully physically transformed but the soul hasnt been injected yet. He brings the cane over, steps away, and then says please. Doctor please. Time you hear merrick alive. That is the moment where the transformation occurs. And if i dont. If i dont make that leap at that moment, the rest of the play is not going to work. cheers and applause kroft but it has through 111 performances, each one ending with a standing ovation, and hundreds of people outside the stage door behind Police Barricades waiting for coopers autograph or a picture, or a chance to touch someone People Magazine had once declared the sexiest man alive. But its a moniker that belies his intelligence and talents. Hes an excellent cook, speaks fluent french, and after graduating with honors from Georgetown University with a major in english, he borrowed 70,000 to get a masters degree from the actors studio. Cooper how you doing, mr. De niro . My name is Bradley Cooper. My question is regarding awakenings. Kroft but Bradley Cooper was never a struggling young actor. He was making out with Carrie Bradshaw on sex in the city while he was still in grad school. A year later, had a tv series, alias, alongside jennifer garner. And promptly paid off that college loan. But he was not an overnight sensation, either. You may remember him as the obnoxious fiance who made a big hit in the wedding crashers. But it took him four more years and a road trip to vegas for a Bachelor Party to make him a movie star. The hangover grossed nearly a halfbillion dollars world wide. Really, things started to change, i guess, with the hangover. I mean, that was huge. Cooper massive, oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, any time youre part of a movie that makes that much money in the box office, its going to provide opportunities for other studios to take chances with you, just on a very mathematical level. That is the way it works. I mean, everyone has a number next to them about what their value is. And when they are casting a movie, any producer will tell you, every actor has a certain amount of currency that an investor will allow them to make so that you can get your money and get your movie made. Kroft you had a perfectly good career. You would play, generally, either leading men or. Or main supporting actors. And nobody during that time said, you know, Bradley Coopers really a great actor. And now, youve got three Academy Award nominations. Howd that happen . Cooper opportunity. People believing in me. I mean, people that have power willing to take a chance. That. Thats everything. You know, youve got to walk through the door and show them why you should be in the room, but you know, the doors got to, you know, be open for you to walk through it. Kroft and one of those opportunities was Silver Linings playbook. Cooper absolutely. Kroft in this quirky romantic comedy, cooper played a bipolar teacher who is discharged from a psych ward intent on reconciling with his exwife, only to meet jennifer lawrence, who is just as mixed up as he is. It landed cooper his first oscar nomination. The next year, cooper was nominated again in a supporting role for his portrayal of whacked out fbi agent Richie Dimaso in american hustle. Both films were written and directed by david o. Russell the first to realize coopers potential. Why do you think he cast you . Cooper you know, i think that he saw something that he believed in. I remember him saying to me, you know, ive only seen you in first and second gear, and i think youve got about six gears. So, i want to go to those gears. Kroft once again, in american sniper, cooper has turned in a performance that is vastly different than anything he has ever done, in a film the new yorker called a subdued celebration of a warriors skill, and a sorrowful lament over his alienation and misery. It has generated heated debate about the morality of the war in iraq, and nearly 300 million at the box office. Do you think this is a political movie . Cooper you know, my reaction is, like, no. But then, we could have a discussion about everythings political, do you know what i mean . But no, i. No, i never saw that. I saw it as telling a personal story. Kroft its the story of chris kyle, a Navy Seal Sniper who survived four tours in iraq with 160 confirmed kills protecting the backs of u. S. Marines in places like fallujah and sadr city, and its about the toll it took on him and his family. Most challenging role youve ever had . Cooper oh, without question. And for nothing else other than, steve, that he was a real human being. Its like, you just work hard, work hard, work hard, do all the work, do all the. And then hopefully, you just pray that it just starts to happen, so that when you walk on that set that first day, hes there. Kroft to make it happen, cooper decided he needed to put on 40 pounds of muscle to capture kyles enormous physical presence and calm demeanor. For three months, he ate 6,000 calories every day, and spent eight hours working out and perfecting kyles texas accent. The weekends were spent on Sniper Training with former seals. What were you trying to convey with this movie . I mean, what did you hope to convey . Cooper if we were able to hit the bulls eye. One was, thats men and women in the service who watch the movie feel like they see their story up there, or they can relate to it. Number two would be people. The 99 of the population that has. Knows nothing about what military men in service go through, or their families would see it in a different light and say, oh, wow, i had no idea. Hold on. I got a woman and kid 200 yards out, moving towards the convoy and shes carrying something. Shes got a grenade. Shes got an rkg, russian grenade. Shes handing it to the kid. You got eyes on this. Can you confirm . Im on the gun, and ive shot live ammo through it, and ive seen what it does. I know that i can take them out if i want to, but my whole stomach, steve, turned like that the minute i saw them through the crosshairs even though it was an empty gun, there were no bullets, you know, theyre actors, its not a real russian grenade. But because of the work that i had done, it was enough so that my body physically changed. So those Little Things key you into what. Maybe having a glimpse of what a. Any soldier has to go through. Kroft cooper gives much of the credit to director clint eastwood, who allowed him to observe and participate in every aspect of the production. And in cooper, eastwood sees a little bit of himself. Clint eastwood hes probably as professional of any actor his age ive ever met, and i never caught him acting. And that is a compliment. Hes going to be a great director one of these days, when he gets tired of acting, which we hope is not too soon. Kroft Bradley Cooper just turned 40, so there are lots of things he plans to do, including eventually having a family, when he has the time and all the right things fall into place. He grew up in a tight irish italian clan in philadelphia which he still considers home. We spent an afternoon there with his entourage, which consisted of his dog, charlotte, his cousin, colin compano, and his mother gloria. When the elephant man ended its run on a saturday night in february, they had just enough time to get to l. A. For the oscars on sunday. So, you. You are going as his date . Gloria oh, yeah. Kroft this is, like, the third year in a row. Gloria i know, its. Kroft arent you getting tired of it . Gloria i love it. No. I love it. When my son. Are you kidding . This is his third time, and i think, this year, hell do it. I really do. Cooper oh, jesus. Kroft as we now know Bradley Cooper did not win the oscar for his role in american sniper. Well see what happens tonight at the tony awards, where hes up for best actor for his role in the elephant man. We live in a world of mobile technology, but it is not the device that is mobile, it is you. When there is a game when there is a training when there is a goal, our duty is to bring that information as fast as possible to the people. Real madrid have about 450 million fans. Were trying to give them all the feeling of being at the stadium. The microsoft cloud gives us the scalability to communicate exactly the content that people want to see. 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