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He was a turd.
Oh, no he didn't!
“Every time I was with him, I wanted it to go longer,” says Anderson Cooper
Fighting to keep my coffee down. Gross!
One of the few times I saw Bourdain, he was complaining that the crackown on illegals from Mexico was making it difficult for restaurants to find good employees.
he was a cook... feh
Always struck me as a very dark and troubled man...
Liked the program; disliked him.
thought he was a pretentious arrogant nobody!
Man, already on shaky ground mentally, completely loses it in middle age with help of younger woman. Basic story, really.
That said, if you like travel shows, I highly recommend the Youtuber Bald and Bankrupt. It's addicting. He travels exactly how I like to travel.
WHO? Sheesh!
He was “nobody” when he was alive and an even bigger nobody now that he’s dead.
Pretty funny. So he was a professional grifter who conned other professional grifters. No wonder they wanted to be around him.
You can’t make this stuff up.
I have learned that it’s very risky to look into the history of people you admire. Their public persona rarely holds up to serious scrutiny. They are commonly revealed to be small, egotistical and vindictive. The real standouts, for me, are those who turn out to be the real deal. Ronald Reagan comes to mind as a man who was, apparently, as advertised. I believe George Washington was as well.
I really enjoyed his book Kitchen Confidential. I worked in food service in HS. Brought back alot of memories, good and bad, working the line.
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Heroin is something that once you start, you it take along with you everywhere and all the time.
Lots of damaged people out there, and he was just one of many. Charm is an effective camouflage for a lot of personal issues.
The ‘darker side’ was seriously dark: cannibalism?
https://www.henrymakow.com/2019/01/bourdain-leonard-cohen.html
“Bourdain’s Instagram account contained disturbing images suggesting he either knew about or was involved in dark practices e.g. cannibalism. He tweeted some negative comments about Hillary Clinton and Harvey Weinstein. There were rumours he had been planning to expose pedophiles in Washington just before his suspicious death by hanging in France.”
“Cohen and Bourdain moved in similar elite entertainment circles, and no one who makes it in that world is left untainted by criminal connections.”
He didn't murder anybody.
He wasn't a stalker.
He didn't like the restaurant business all that much.
He got addicted to heroin while working in restaurants in NYC. Shocker!
He replaced his addiction with an obsession for Brazilian Ju-jitsu--(I read he attained a blue belt +, = certified mid-level ass-kicker)
His relationships with his colleagues was, apparently, collegial.
He had a hard time maintaining relationships with contemporary women.
Nevertheless he still liked women.
Because he liked women, he was uninterested in any deep, probing relationship with Anderson Cooper.
In general, he kept his business off the street.
In short, as celebrities go, he seems to have been a decent guy. So lets go piss on his grave!
I enjoyed No Reservations back when I had TV. There was one episode, in Africa I think, where the person he was talking to shared the Gospel with him. I was surprised it made the cut and...in reruns, it didn’t. But it was a powerful moment and the look on Tony’s face was heartbreaking. You could see the struggle within him, the Holy Spirit nudging him, but the carnal man pushing back.
I hope he made his peace with God, in spite of his bitter end.
And don’t forget... Raw hamburgers. That’s the worst transgression.
The good news... If you eat enough of them you never get food poisoning ever again... I know. My father served us nothing but raw hamburgers when we were kids and I didn’t have a cooked hamburger until I ate at a McDonald’s when I was 11. I can’t recall every getting food poisoning in my life and eat out at restaurants’ all the time.