Celebrity Death: Anthony Bourdain

[John Price]

CNN Announces the Final 5 Episodes of Parts Unknown

 

[Frankie Blueberries]

This was and still is incredibly sad.

I was never a huge fan of his, but I'd watch his show from time to time because my dad loved it. Now I've been avidly watching his show and realize what a great person he was. He really comes off as a man of the people and always standing up for what he believed was right and defending those that are most vulnerable (having just seen the Jamaican episode).

Not sure if this has been posted already, but his toxicology report found no drugs or alcohol in his system. To me, that makes it even more depressing, as he soberly contemplated his life for many days.

Bourdain’s toxicology report released

 

[spintheblackcircle]

Anyone catch the first of the new episodes last night?

 

[Led Zappa]

Anyone catch the first of the new episodes last night?

I've got it on the DVR. Didn't have time yesterday. Probably won't watch it till the weekend.

 

[spintheblackcircle]

It's pretty great, and not really because of him. He took W Kamau Bell to Kenya, great episode.

The last scene with Bell......it's pretty amazing.

And before that, there was a great scene that I am sure wasn't going to be used in the regular episode had he not died. They were just shooting background footage and Bourdain and Bell were just talking....

W. Kamau Bell on Anthony Bourdain’s ‘I Pinch Myself’ Moment

“The idea that I’m sitting here with you, doing this now, knowing where my life and career have come, it’s pretty cool,” Bell, whose CNN series United Shades of Americawas directly inspired by Bourdain’s, tells the host. He asks himself, “Whose life is this?”

Bourdain, who had been traveling the world doing this type of show for 17 years, tells Bell that “as soon as the cameras turn off,” when he and his crew are sitting around having a cocktail, “I pinch myself.”

“I cannot f***ing believe that I get to do this,” Bourdain continues. “Or see this, ever. Or that I ever would, because 44 years ago, dunking fries, I knew, with absolute certainty, that I would never, ever see Rome, much less this.”

 

[John Price]

 

[John Price]

 

[Chaels Arms]

Bourdain's death is one of the few "celebrity" deaths that really did hit hard. He is one of the few personalities you felt you genuinely knew and he seemed like such an all around just great guy.

A few weeks ago I noticed his early show "A Cook's Tour" was free on Amazon Prime and I binged the hell out of it. Amazing, amazing stuff even though some of it looks like it was filmed on a camcorder.

 

[spintheblackcircle]

"Nothing feels better than going home. And nothing feels better than leaving home,"

 

[Baby Punisher]

I can't even watch re-runs of his shows.