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06-08-2018 , 09:37 AM

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06-08-2018 , 09:51 AM

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06-08-2018 , 11:38 AM

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Jesus Christ - so much for my hero. I don't get how you can do that to your daughter. Kate Spade too - "Ask your dad". Obviously I don't really understand depression though.

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06-08-2018 , 12:35 PM

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Goddammit. A personal hero of mine. Great writer, the very best TV shows known to man, and one helluva cook. Also made meeting new people and making them feel special into an art form.

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06-08-2018 , 06:17 PM

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Yuck:

Asia Argento was cheating on Anthony Bourdain with a french Journalist. The second and third pictures appeared online a few hours before he committed suicide.

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This will probably be heavily down voted, but Asia Argento is quite the piece of work. Despite her then-current boyfriend's, Vincent Gallo, willingness to support her claims against Weinsteins' sexual harassment, she basically denied it, after telling Gallo about it, and went on to have a relationship with Weinsten, apparently. This from a woman who was wealthy, had a famous director father and would have not had much to lose in reporting his crimes. I posted an except below from this article:https://www.thewrap.com/vincent-gall...vey-weinstein/

“I was close to Asia Argento, but we were never engaged. I do remember though threatening Harvey Weinstein for what Asia claimed he did to her,” wrote Gallo, who says he then became a target of Weinstein’s wrath. “That created a real enemy in Harvey who certainly went out of his way to marginalize my work and my opportunities as much as he could. By calling him out, then I was his enemy and no one from the press would repeat any of my claims against him.” "Gallo, who broke through as a director on “Buffalo 66” added, “My clash with him was costly to me in a real way. Naturally, it felt bad when, instead of speaking out along with me, Asia then denied and changed her story and went on to work with him, carry on a personal relationship with him, and repeat additional things I said about him to further enrage him against me. Her appearance in recent press regarding Harvey is very uncomfortable for me.”

I don't know if she had anything to do with Bourdain's death, but she doesn't seem like a person that would have helped.

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06-08-2018 , 09:38 PM

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06-08-2018 , 10:45 PM

#182

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one of my favs

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06-09-2018 , 12:06 AM

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I made the Corvette Summer drinks from that episode. Delicious. The key is Patron and fresh squeezed grapefruit juice - no substitutes.

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06-09-2018 , 12:06 AM

#184

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Lol the Costa Rica Times apparently thinks Jamie Oliver is Bourdain.

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06-09-2018 , 12:40 AM

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Best article I've seen yet: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/an...ling-the-truth

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Another way of putting it is that Anthony Bourdain built his career on the telling of truth. The son of a French father and an American mother (Gladys Bourdain, writing as G. S. Bourdain, was a writer and a copy editor at the Times), he was a novelist before he became an essayist, but, even in the realm of fiction—as in his series of sardonic crime thrillers, including the novels “Bone in the Throat” and “Gone Bamboo”—he evinced a fascination with how people lived within and around their ill behaviors. “Guys who wake up every morning, brush their teeth, shower, shave, then go to work at the serious business of committing felonies,” he wrote in “A Life of Crime,” an essay in his collection “Medium Raw.” “These are the characters who continue to dominate my reverie.” In crime there’s not just transgression, there’s clarity: being in the conspiracy, knowing the inner workings of the machine, seeing what’s really going on. This was the engine that powered “Don’t Eat Before Reading This,” Bourdain’s 1999 New Yorker story that stripped the elegant window dressing from the world of high-end restaurants—the article that, in short order, evolved into his blockbuster 2000 memoir, “Kitchen Confidential.”

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06-09-2018 , 12:58 AM

#186

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R.I.P.

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06-09-2018 , 10:16 PM

#187

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Oh man, thanks for reminding me of that. Probably my favourite Parts Unknown moment of all time.

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06-11-2018 , 01:48 AM

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I'm watching the CNN retrospective on him now. This sucks. He had so much more to contribute.

I have a whole blog post on this - still working on it. Hopefully some day I can find some niche to reach a tiny fraction of the people Bourdain touched in his life.

Holy **** - Anderson Cooper was just breaking up saying Bourdain actually gave him hope, for what one's life could become at 61 - which is exactly how I felt

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