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Anthony Bourdain, R.I.P.

This is a shock! Nobody sees this coming. We all know him as the cool guy and almost everybody loves him
 
Friends Were 'Worried About Anthony Bourdain's Crazy Love for Asia Argento' Before She Was Spotted Embracing a Journalist in Rome, and Say the
Chef was 'Giddy' in the Days Before His Suicide

By Hannah Parry and Chris Spargo for Daily Mail.com/ News/ Daily Mail.com/ dailymail.co.uk

  • "Friends of Bourdain revealed he'd fallen head over heels for Argento, describing him as 'a teenage boy just absolutely lovestruck'
  • 'He would have done anything for her, and that was a little red flag for some of his friends. Like, he was crazy in love with her, crazy being the keyword'
  • Bourdain, 61, was found hanged to death in his French hotel room on June 8
  • His tragic suicide took place days after Argento was pictured with journalist Hugo Clement in Rome
  • The pair were photographed holding hands, dancing together and sharing a close embrace
  • Argento's friend Rose McGowan said the Italian actress and Bourdain had a 'free relationship' and 'loved without borders of traditional relationships'

Usually I take this stuff with a grain of salt because people never know the whole story. But some of those bullet points taken together are believable and disturbing.

One thing we know is that he was vulnerable --- he made some references to his suicidal thoughts over the years.
 
Anthony Bourdain was 'Regularly Suicidal' After End of First Marriage
By Michael Kaplan/ Page Six/ pagesix.com

His state of mind improved upon meeting a woman in London. At that point, wrote Bourdain, “my nightly attempts at suicide ended.”...
Richard
His state of mind was well known to his family, friends and fans (based on his books). Somewhere along the line they should have advised him to seek mental health help. This is where it is good if society is more open about such issues, and treatment is not anything to be ashamed about.
 
New Jersey Looks to Remember Anthony Bourdain With 'Official Food Trail'
By Catherine Carrera, The (Bergen County, N.J.) Record/ News/ USA Today/ usatoday.com

"Anthony Bourdain’s favorite New Jersey eateries from Fort Lee to Atlantic City would become an official food trail named in honor of the celebrity chef, who died unexpectedly June 8.

“A designated trail of his favorite dining spots is a fitting way to honor the memory of one of New Jersey’s best-known chefs,” said Assemblyman Paul Moriarty, D-Gloucester.

Moriarty introduced a resolution Monday calling for the Legislature to officially mark the honor and remember Bourdain, a New Jersey native whose suicide this month prompted many in the state to remember his roots, and his impact worldwide.

The resolution calls on the Division of Travel and Tourism to establish the “Anthony Bourdain Food Trail,” which would include the 10 spots he visited in a 2015 episode of “Parts Unknown,” his CNN food and travel show that ran for 11 seasons....."

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January 22, 2015: Anthony Bourdain (left) and his brother Christopher Bourdain filming Parts Unknown in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Courtesy of CNN


Richard
 
first time I read it, I thought it was just a hoax because I see him as a strong man. To the Elvis of bad boy chefs, may you rest in peace
 
Anthony Bourdain's Ex Has Shown 'Best Mothering Imaginable' to Their Daughter After His Suicide
By Karen Mizoguchi/ Food/ People/ people.com

"Five weeks after Anthony Bourdain‘s death, his estranged wife Ottavia Busia continues to be a rock for their 11-year-old daughter Ariane.

Busia’s best friend Doug Quint, who is a co-founder of Big Gay Ice Cream, gave an update on how the mother of one is doing following Bourdain’s suicide on June 8. Tweeting a series of statements from his company’s verified account, Quint alluded to Bourdain, though he was not mentioned directly by name.

“Five weeks ago my best friend’s husband killed himself. Five weeks ago the father of the ring-bearer at my wedding killed himself,” Quint’s first two tweets read.

“For five weeks I have watched my best friend display more poise and grace than I could ever imagine, in the face of a global publicity s–t-storm,” another tweet read.

“For five weeks I have seen the best mothering imaginable. This whole f–king thing sucks so horribly and it always will but I discovered she’s not just my best friend,” Quint wrote in follow-up tweets.

Concluding, “Ottavia is my idol.”

Although Bourdain and Busia separated in 2016 after nine years of marriage, their divorce was not finalized before his death. (Bourdain and girlfriend Asia Argento began dating after meeting during the filming of his CNN show Parts Unknown in 2016.)
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Richard
 
Les Halles in NYC, the restaurant where he worked when "Kitchen Confidential" was published, closed last year. But that didn't stop fans from using the storefront as a makeshift memorial of sorts...

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This Just-Published Anthony Bourdain Interview Is a Scorcher
By Caroline Siede/ Great Job Internet/ AV/News/ The A.V.Club/ new.avclub.com

"Writer Maria Bustillos first connected with Anthony Bourdain after she wrote a lengthy piece for Eater diving into his early career as a crime novelist. Bourdain tweeted his appreciation for the article, which inspired Bustillos to ask for an interview with Bourdain for her blockchain-backed, “alt-worldly” website Popula. Bustillos was hoping for a 15-minute phone interview. Instead she got to spend two and a half hours chatting with Bourdain in a “comfy Irish bar,” where their warm, casual conversation ranged from politics to the #MeToo movement to the importance of creating an empathetic global culture and how food can play a role in that.

Though it was published this week, the interview took place back in February, four months before Bourdain’s death. That makes it likely one of the last interviews Bourdain gave and certainly one of the most unique. Bustillos opens and closes the piece with thoughts on both Bourdain’s life and his death. But rather than polish up the interview itself into a more formal piece, Bustillos simply shares the raw transcript of their conversation, including its many stops, starts, and tangents.

There are plenty of headline-grabbing pull quotes from the interview, especially when it comes to Bourdain’s political opinions. He passionately vents about his frustrations with the op-ed writers at The New York Times, and has an immediate response to Bustillos’ tongue-in-cheek question about which Times writer he’d like to strangler first (Thomas Friedman). In perhaps the interview’s most provocative section, Bourdain answers a question about the Monica Lewinsky scandal by calling Bill Clinton, “A piece of *bleep*. Entitled, rapey, gropey, grabby, disgusting.” He also has a lot of vitriol for the way he believes both Bill and Hillary Clinton handled accusations of sexual assault leveled against Bill, saying, “The way they efficiently dismantled, destroyed, and shamelessly discredited these women for speaking their truth is unforgivable.”

Later, in a particularly provocative end to the interview, Bourdain dreams up an elaborate death scenario for Harvey Weinstein (Bourdain’s then-girlfriend Asia Argento was one of the women to publically accuse Weinstein of sexual assault):...."

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Photo: Craig Barritt (Getty Images)


Richard
 
Remembering Anthony Bourdain As Only His Fixers Could
By Lisa Abend/ Hollywood/ Vanity Fair/ vanityfair.com

"The local experts who guided Anthony Bourdain in Vietnam, Peru, Japan, and beyond had a view of the larger-than-life figure that few were privy to.

Michiko Zentoh was Anthony Bourdain’s first fixer. A freelance television producer in Japan, she worked with Bourdain on the initial two episodes of his first series, A Cook’s Tour, which were set in Tokyo and the onsen towns of Atami and Yugawara. It was 2000, and Bourdain was no longer working the same kind of schedule at New York’s Les Halles brasserie as he had before writing his best-selling Kitchen Confidential. Yet in those early shows it’s clear he still thinks of himself as a chef first, expertly evaluating a piece of bluefin and remarking on how much he’d like to get an octopus he sees at Tsukiji Fish Market back into the kitchen. What Zentoh remembers most from those days is his enthusiasm. “He told me, ‘I feel like I won the lottery,’” she recalls. “He spent so many years never leaving the kitchen and now he was traveling the world.”

Bourdain’s enthusiasm is evident in those early episodes. The characteristic intonation is there, but his voice seems an octave or two higher, and as he delights in a kaiseki meal or struggles through a bowl of mucilaginous nattō, there’s a sweetness to his demeanor, a naïveté, that belies the confidence of later years. He’s the quintessential innocent abroad—eager for new experiences but left vulnerable by them, too. On-screen, he admits to feeling intimidated, not only by the sumo wrestlers whose practice sessions he attends but even by the bullet train, where the crew shot him eating a bento lunch of eel. “He was very modest, very cautious about protocol,” Zentoh says. At one point she corrected his bowl handling, gently suggesting that he stop using both palms to cup it. “He asked me at every step, ‘Am I doing it right?’ He was the opposite of arrogant.”....."

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Anthony Bourdain prepares for a trek through the streets of Hanoi, 2016.
William Mebane



Richard
 
The Most 'Uknown' Part of All: What Happened to Bourdain?
By Adam Buckman/ Commentary/ TV Blog/ Media Post/ mediapost.com

Opinions will inevitably vary on this subject, as opinions do on any subject, but for some (if not for many), CNN's insistence on continuing to air its Anthony Bourdain show “Parts Unknown” following his death by suicide last June feels inappropriate.

Last week, CNN began promoting the upcoming final season of “Parts Unknown,” set to get underway on Sunday, September 23.

On Thursday, the cable channel made an official announcement: The final season of “Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown” will consist of seven episodes that will be assembled from footage and some narration that producers were able to obtain before Bourdain made the decision to end his life in a hotel-inn in France on June 8.

CNN's press release said filming for the 12th (and now final) season of “Parts Unknown” was “in progress” when Bourdain killed himself.

As a result, CNN had enough material to produce five “location-based” shows (the ones in which Bourdain was seen visiting locales abroad and sampling the food).

Bourdain provided narration for only one of these five shows, however -- a visit to Kenya -- before his untimely death.

Narration for the other location-based shows will now have to be provided by someone else. Those shows will have Bourdain visiting Spain, Indonesia, West Texas and Manhattan's Lower East Side.

The two other shows rounding out this seven-episode season will be styled as tributes to Bourdain and the people who worked with him to produce this CNN series......"

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Richard
 
One of my favorites is the time that Anthony Bourdain visited Waffle House:

 
Anthony Bourdain rexts Pubishea in New Biography Reveal Grim Final Days: Hate My Fans..l Hate Being Famous.I
Hate My Job" - Report




Richard
 
Oh my goodness, why do famous people hate enough like that to go to that extreme to end it all. Just get out of the spotlight and find something you want to do. It's crazy to me.
 
Oh my goodness, why do famous people hate enough like that to go to that extreme to end it all. Just get out of the spotlight and find something you want to do. It's crazy to me.

One of the seriously famous food TV personalities walked into the place I was working in Las Vegas. This guy is *beloved* by his fans. Has a reputation of being one of the "good guy" TV personalities.

Walked in and loudly announced that nobody was to speak to him or even look at him. "I'm not in the mood for fans today."

With the exception of Hubert Keller from PBS, who is exactly as nice as he seems on his show, all the food TV types are basically the polar opposite of how they appear on TV. I saw Bourdain a few times in Las Vegas. (He was partial to a Strip steakhouse during jiu-jitsu competitions.) And he always had a crowd of hangers on, telling him how much they loved his work. And if he didn't arrive with a crowd, one always gathered. Everyone wanting a piece -- a signature, a selfie.

Another celebrity I once worked for (famous actor with a Key West restaurant) called it "life in the fishbowl."

Some people can't handle life in the fishbowl. The fishbowl cracks. They crack. Reinvention is not in most peoples' nature. So picking up the pieces, pulling stakes, buggering off to Nepal and becoming a yak herder isn't in the cards. "But they have fame and all that money!" Doesn't matter. For a lot of people, that's a millstone around their neck. I think if you slipped sodium pentothal to a wide cross-section of celebrities, you'd find most of them are sick of their fans.
 
Oh my goodness, why do famous people hate enough like that to go to that extreme to end it all. Just get out of the spotlight and find something you want to do. It's crazy to me.

Depression and suicide can‘t be easily resolved. Many people are depressed and suicidal. Many teens from good happy families are depressed and suicidal. But many depressed and suicidal adults also had a terrible childhood and have been depressed and suicidal on and off their entire lives. Even out of the spotlight, these individuals would probably end it all.
 
The other was to look at depression and suicidality is like diabetes. You can be born with a chemical imbalance like type 1 diabetes. Or your lifestyle and traumas can create depression and suicidality, just like lifestyle creased type 2 diabetes. Either way mental illness is like a physical illness.

Trauma can be defined many ways. It does not have to what we call big T trauma like war and rape. It can be little T trauma. My daughter has trauma from being legally adopted and repeatedly abandoned by 2 previous families by the time she was 8-3/4 when we got her. In addition she was born drug addicted and removed at age 2 months and put into foster care. She is not depressed but she gets stressed and anxious easily and she is hypervigilant about everything going on around her especially at home.

Of course, type 2 diabetes can be cured with a healthy lifestyle. Depression and suicidality can be cured if you get the right therapy and/or medication.
 
Anthony Bourdain rexts Pubishea in New Biography Reveal Grim Final Days: Hate My Fans..l Hate Being Famous.I
Hate My Job" - Report

Uh, Richard... Can I have some of your drugs?
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The Lesser-Known Things About Anthony Bourdain's Life




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