The Creative Arts Emmys were held over the weekend, and while there were a number of surprises, there were also some richly deserved tributes. To wit: The late Anthony Bourdain, along with his CNN show Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, picked up six Emmy awards.
Yesterday, a New York Times report came out claiming that Asia Argento had agreed to pay $380,000 to a young actor named Jimmy Bennett who claimed that she had sexually assaulted him in 2013 shortly after he turned 17. The two met while filming The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things in 2004, and Bennett says they…
Two months later, we’re still coming to terms with the death of Anthony Bourdain, the chef, author, and voraciously fascinated/fascinating cultural explorer. Bourdain held a unique place in the pop-culture landscape, taking on the role of everybody’s smartest, most smart-ass friend, the guy who was equally comfortable…
Back in the Food Network’s heyday, people went nuts for celebrity chefs. If you had some on-screen charisma, a repertoire of top-notch recipes, and a back pocket full of fun catchphrases, you could build yourself a little celebrity-chef empire that spilled out from the television screen into brick-and-mortar Michelin-…
The death of a celebrity has always been big news, but nowadays it’s maybe best described as all-encompassing. Tributes and thinkpieces flood every site, while your social media feed turns into a battle of competitive grieving. This can be cathartic for some, who, in the wake of the loss, want to immerse themselves in…
One of the many questions raised by the death by suicide of food truck-loving, beer-swilling evangelist of the good life Anthony Bourdain was this: What would happen to all the footage from the new season of Parts Unknown that Bourdain was filming when he died? The show’s parent network, CNN, has spent the last two…
“Famous fan fiction” is always a tricky concept to deal with; the oceans of online fan content are deep and strange, and it’s often hard to tell what’ll be a well-known inside joke for one set of readers, and some sort of bizarre, mutant cave fish for another. Still, a piece does occasionally float up to the top.…
Writer Maria Bustillos first connected with Anthony Bourdain after she wrote a lengthy piece for Eater diving into his early career as a crime novelist. Bourdain tweeted his appreciation for the article, which inspired Bustillos to ask for an interview with Bourdain for her blockchain-backed, “alt-worldly” website …
Emmys voting is currently underway, which means that a ripe crop of fantasy Emmys ballots and “who will win/who should win” speculation is on its way. Fueling those predictions will be today’s nominations for the TCA Awards, the annual honors bestowed by members of the Television Critics Association (like our own Erik…
New York City has been taking the death of chef-turned-television personality Anthony Bourdain especially hard: After all, he was one of their own, the son of a New York Times staff editor and a Columbia classical music executive who spent 20 years working his way up from a line cook to an executive chef at…
Whenever comic news junkie Seth Meyers pulls in a real newsperson to appear on Late Night, the war is always between talking shop and just swapping bewildered Trump putdowns. Meyers is therefore always happy to welcome CNN Chief Washington Correspondent Jake Tapper. Especially as Tapper, pulling the Sunday morning…
In recent years, mental health advocates have been pushing for a small, but significant, change in the way we report on suicide: “Do not write ‘committed suicide’— the term is ‘died by suicide,’” organizations like the WHO suggest. That signals a shift away from the stigma that taking one’s own life is a hurtful,…
As the pop culture world continues to wrestle today with the sudden death of chef, world traveler, and boundlessly enthusiastic experience-seeker Anthony Bourdain, his home network has announced at least one of the ways it’ll be paying tribute to him. Per Deadline, CNN—which, since 2013, has served as the home of…
This week’s question remembers chef, writer, and television host Anthony Bourdain:
During a recent Q&A session, celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain casually dropped a reference to Quentin Tarantino as an example of why it can be bad to value money too much, explaining that he once turned down a lucrative merchandising deal because he and his producing partners weren’t “comfortable” with the person…
Karen Berger helped change the course of comic books. As an editor at DC Comics, she was instrumental in the development of Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing and Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman, two titles that showed off superhero comics’ potential for more sophisticated, provocative storytelling. In 1993, she founded the DC Comics…
Pretty much ever since he was declared the winner of the second season of The Next Food Network Star, Guy Fieri has been the punching bag of the celebrity chef world. With his frosted tips, plethora of catchphrases, and deep love of big sloppy plates of cheese and meat, Fieri is seen as the embodiment of everything…
Vertigo Comics founder Karen Berger left the publishing industry 20 years after providing a platform for some of the most inspired (and twisted) auteurs and artists, including Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon, Neil Gaiman, and Marc Hempel, as well as the many people who’ve worked on Hellblazer. (Vertigo’s also published many…
We were pretty high on Edgar Wright’s latest, the thrilling, rhythmic Baby Driver, but not everyone is sold on Wright’s subversive take on the musical. Take Anthony Bourdain, for example, who took a break from his Fourth Of July celebrations eating dog in the foothills of Mount Rinjani or wherever to tweet his review.
