‘Tony’: What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in the Anthony Bourdain Origin Story

The movie stars Dominic Sessa as a 19-year-old Bourdain—“spoiled, miserable, narcissistic, self-destructive, and thoughtless,” in the writer’s own words—decades before he became a celebrated memoirist and TV host. But just how much of Tony is true?

Matt Johnson's captivating origin story details the bumpy rise of a ne’er-do-well who made good

Author,TV host, food genius Anthony Bourdain was a master in and out of the kitchen, a genuine star, and a man who seemed to have it all until his life took a tragic turn at age 61 and resulted in his suicide. Certainly that is the stuff of a highly dramatic biopic, but not at…

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