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Anthony Bourdain dead at 61
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CNN confirmed Bourdain's death on Friday and said the cause of death was suicide.
"It is with extraordinary sadness we can confirm the death of our friend and colleague, Anthony Bourdain," the network said in a statement Friday morning. "His love of great adventure, new friends, fine food and drink and the remarkable stories of the world made him a unique storyteller. His talents never ceased to amaze us and we will miss him very much. Our thoughts and prayers are with his daughter and family at this incredibly difficult time."
Bourdain was in France working on an upcoming episode of his award-winning CNN series "Parts Unknown." His close friend Eric Ripert, the French chef, found Bourdain unresponsive in his hotel room Friday morning.
"Tony was an exceptional talent," CNN President Jeff Zucker said in an email to employees. "Tony will be greatly missed not only for his work but also for the passion with which he did it."
Aside from Parts Unknown, he was also the driving force behind Mind of a Chef, a fierce advocate of keeping NYC a little dirty, and a lover of fine alcoholic beverages.
He will be missed.
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Let's play Mario Kart or something...
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Edit: The National Suicide Prevention hotline is 1-800-273-8255. If you find yourself low or in need of help, remember there are those who want to help you and you deserve help.
This is a real bummer.
He advocated for NYC being a certain way and sometimes it was pretty hilarious.
Like when he called Guy Fieri’s now-closed restaurant in Times Square a “terror dome”
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
His episode with Obama in Thailand was really wonderful.
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Was that the one where Jason Rezaian and his wife were arrested shortly thereafter?
I remember that one, he ended up hanging out with some 20-somethings and their cars late at night with a beer in his hand.
One fun scene I remember was an increasingly hangry Bourdain having to murderize a bunch of chickens for coq au vin someplace in Africa (Congo maybe?) because their boat was late or wasn't permitted to sail or something.
Ignore the TMZ logo, this has none of their packaging, just Tony riffing on food, talking about what his last meal would be, debunking booze myths, just being awesome in general.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
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Damn.
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I'm gonna make all my friends have one of these at some dive bar in Arizona tonight.
That episode humanized Iranians for me in a way that nothing else had.
Bourdain really was a part of me growing as a person, becoming a more worldly and a kinder, more understanding human.
We need people like him more than ever.
I don't usually care about celebrity deaths, but damn this one hits hard.
There's a very short list of people whose writing I will read no matter the subject. I'm not really a movie person, but Roger Ebert was a genius.
Anthony Bourdain was absolutely a lifetime member of that list.
I liked his forays into the poorer areas of the world. South America. SE Asia. Middle east.
One that stands out to me this morning is the episode in Spain where he visits the family doing the onion grill. This one sticks out because it is people doing shit that everyone else does. Its the core of what he did best. Show that throughout the world we, the individual person, are all the same in our core values be it Iran or India or Detroit or upper Amazon. Its something he commented on all the time and the best thing of his work I hope lives on.
OD is always possible with him
Dude had hell of troubles with addiction.
It freezes you up pretty good when you find out the guy who is (outwardly) living your ideal lifestyle decides it’s not worth living
I thought Obama was Vietnam. He loved Vietnam and SE Asia in general. It was a big reason I ended up falling in love with those same things.
Without reading the articles referenced, I've seen at least one PAer express disappointment with an article giving details as to the scene, so
yeah, looks like
They don't give details.
Still really gutted by this.
Yeah, his SEA episodes got me to go there, and fall in love with it myself.
If it helps, think of his decision as being that his life wasn't worth living anymore, which could be understandable for any number of reasons.