He kept things confidential in the kitchen, stood by a friend who failed to launch and for his thesis, played a doubly afflicted man. What two conditions are now postulated to have afflicted that man?

Boycie75

A combination of Proteus syndrome and Neurofibromatosis type I. Bradley Cooper starred in the TV series Kitchen Confidential and the movie Failure to Launch. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0177896/bio Immediately after Bradley Cooper graduated from the Honors English program at Georgetown University in 1997, he moved to New York City to enroll in the Masters of Fine Arts program at the Actors Studio Drama School at New School University. There, he developed his stage work, culminating with his thesis performance as John Merrick in Bernard Pomerance's "The Elephant Man," It was suggested that Merrick may have suffered a combination of Proteus syndrome and Neurofibromatosis type I http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Merrick Nov 18 08, 10:57 PM

edmund80

Yes, a current theory is that Joseph Merrick suffered both conditions at the same time. See picture below of what he would have looked like without those diseases. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-07/dhc-ada071803.php Nov 18 08, 11:20 PM