‘Tony’ Makes Bourdain Unlikeable, and That’s Why It Works
Culture Index
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Relevance
9/25
Freshness
25/25
Authority
10/20
Brand Signal
6/15
Depth
5/15
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I went into Tony, Matt Johnson’s new Anthony Bourdain biopic, as I imagine many people in the food world did: hesitant and somewhat hoping to hate it, by virtue of my aversion to the way the chef has been mythologized in the eight years since his death. While I think Laurie Woolever, Bourdain’s longtime assistant […]
