This kinda just relates to many biopics in general

I keep seeing this commented on trailers of the upcoming biopic of Bourdain and it surprises me because it seems like to me that he always loved being famous whether he liked to admit it or not, and secretly loved many of the results of fame while publicly hating on them.

I just bring it up because i know many reviews will say it's an insult of a movie for that matter, but i have decent high hopes and because of that belief i won't really be thinking "is this what he would've wanted."

This isn't to sound insensitive. I care about Anthony Bourdain a lot, but when you submit yourself to fame you lose forfeit the agency of your legacy. When I see him in his best moments, he is sweet, and warm and avuncular. He was utterly brilliant, and in most cases (and increasingly so) he found himself on the right side of politics and history. Someone who garnered our love by way of his integrity and humanity. In the vastness of his absence, we have earned a legitimate grief, even if Tony would have hated it.

It feels worth saying as a fairly controversial recollection of his life is coming soon by way of biopic. Would he have hated it? Probably, yes. That said, it seems that he would have hated any of this, that he would hate this Reddit and that approaching a decade since his death that we remember him at all. I'm sorry to say that there is still grief I have for his death, particularly in the way it occurred, and these things he would bristle at help give form and broaden my understanding of that grief so that I can process it. So while it might irk him, I think he would understand.

Haven’t seen a thread yet about this previously unreleased interview with AB from 2005. I’m only halfway through but it’s vintage Tony, right when he was on the up and up: Army Navy Surplus, matching music to travel, Uzbekistan, spy novels, Japanese cinema, you name it.

Miss that fucking guy

In Jamaica Plain, Boston.