In the Weeds
Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain
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Tom Vitale
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In the nearly two years since Anthony Bourdain's death, no one else has come close to filling the void he left. His passion for and genuine curiosity about the people and cultures he visited made the world feel smaller and more connected. Despite his affable, confident, and trademark snarky TV persona, the real Tony was intensely private, deeply conflicted about his fame, and an enigma even to those close to him. Tony’s devoted crew knew him best, and no one else had a front-row seat for as long as his director and producer, Tom Vitale.
Over the course of more than a decade traveling together, Tony became a boss, a friend, a hero and, sometimes, a tormentor.In the Weeds takes readers behind the scenes to reveal not just the insanity that went into filming in some of the most far-flung and volatile parts of the world, but what Tony was like unedited and off-camera. From the outside, the job looked like an all-expenses-paid adventure to places like Borneo, Vietnam, Iran, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Libya. What happened off-camera was far more interesting than what made it to air. The more things went wrong, the better it was for the show. Fortunately, everything fell apart constantly.
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Great way to remember Tony
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Fascinating & Heartbreaking
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The behind the scenes view of years making of television with Tony is well told through Tom's eyes. Tom's unique voice comes through his writing in this book but it is so comfortablely familiar to anyone who also enjoys Anthony's writing, as if Tom was a long suppressed part Tony's psyche given life — Cautious, self-depricating and yet seemily hungry to live a life bathed in chaos.
I am a fan of Anthony's. His perspectives on our place in the world, on food and the time he gave to appreciate and present cultures played a role in my development and maturity as a somewhat functioning human being. I have been filled with swirl of emotions with every posthumous project that has been released or speculative article online rehashing something or other from his life. I typically shy away from these things. They've all been weird or controversial or too ready to provide their own conclusions. I bought this book out of curiosity hoping for a sincere telling of Anthony's stories. I have only just finished it and I am impressed with the perspectives offered. I am impressed by how much the writing moved me by not only Anthony's experiences but the perspectives of Tom and the crew who worked so closely with him for years. I am impressed by how careful, analytical and considerate the writing can be and yet leave things so equivocally. The book raises wonderfully ponderous questions, explores them in exquisite emotional detail and does the reader the service of leaving them there for personal contemplation.
I found more in this book than I was expecting.
For a fan of Anthony's, of his books and especially his television shows dating back to the first, this book is a welcome experience.
Wonderfully detailed, reflective and heartfelt
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Worthwhile for Bourdain fans.
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