The coming-of-age drama is enjoying some solid reviews (we saw it and mostly liked it — there's a blurb for you).
Afterward, we were recalling when CNN aired the final season of Bourdain's "Parts Unknown." The finale, which aired posthumously in November 2018, took Bourdain through the East Village and Lower East Side and featured Harley Flanagan, Lydia Lunch, Richard Hell, Fab Five Freddy, Jim Jarmusch, Debbie Harry and Chris Stein, and John Lurie, among many others.
Bourdain, a former LES resident, visited neighborhood haunts including Ray’s Candy Store, Veselka, John’s of 12th Street, Max Fish and Emilio’s Ballato. EVG flashback here.
The chef, author and TV personality died in June 2018. His employer, CNN, reported that Bourdain took his own life. He was 61.
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So depressing
I worked with Tony at two restaurants in the late ‘70s and early’80s. Montana Eve on 7th ave south, and WPA in soho. He then lived on the UWS. I was unaware that he lived on the LES. we certainly scored lots of drugs downtown. People in our circle became addicted, died, went to prison, and sold their ass on the “stroll” , east eleventh and twelfth streets.
I worked at the NYC auction house that in 2019 sold some of his personal property that his widow consigned to us so she could start a scholarship in his name at the Culinary Institute of America. In my career I worked a number of celebrity auctions, but nothing came even remotely close to the insanity surrounding this one - people all over the world, including any number of celebrity chefs, were desperate to own something, anything that had belonged to him, and the battles to triumph were epic. It showed the power of his personality, even after he left us...
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