movie review TONY Running time: 106 minutes.<em> </em>Rated R (pervasive language, drug use, and sexual content/nudity). In theaters Aug. 7. I can’t say I had “No Reservations” when it was announced that an Anthony Bourdain biopic was in the works. I had plenty. How could any movie about the bad-boy chef, author and TV star … Read more
Paula Deen is speaking ill of the dead. Deen, 78, took shots at fellow celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain — who died by suicide at age 61 in 2018 — in her new documentary, “Canceled: The Paula Deen Story,” that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday. “Anthony Bourdain did call me the most dangerous … Read more
He’s got no reservations. Dominic Sessa, the breakout star of the Oscar-winning movie “The Holdovers,” is in talks to play legendary chef and travel documentarian Anthony Bourdain in a biopic that will be called “Tony,” according to Deadline. A24 is reportedly in talks to produce the project. Sessa, 21, rose to fame in “The Holdovers” … Read more
The tragic suicides of Robin Williams in 2014 and of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain in 2018 led to a surge in suicidal thoughts and behaviors among the public, a troubling new report from Columbia University finds. Columbia researchers developed a computer model that estimated the amount of suicidal ideation and the number of suicides that … Read more
Anthony Bourdain struggled with fame and heartbreak in the days leading up to his death by suicide, a new book reveals. In an unauthorized biography titled “Down and Out in Paradise: The Life of Anthony Bourdain,” journalist Charles Leerhsen includes text messages sent by the late celebrity chef in his final days that give insight … Read more