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Bezig met laden... In the Weeds: Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdaindoor Tom Vitale
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Intention. the public can't read Vitale's mind, so some assumptions can be made. In working with someone for more than a decade, it's likely to desire to be considered a friend. Vitale comes off as if he was forever frustrated that Bourdain would never really accept him and be his friend. He definitely captures a grueling situation of, what is the real relationship? However, a relationship requires two people and he doesn't seem mature enough to accept that he could have made his own choices. In the end, no one will know how Bourdain truly felt. However, on the other hand, when it came down to it, he gave him the drive. It could have gone to anyone. So Vitale was indeed trusted in some way. The irony of course being that, in less than three years after Bourdain's suicide, his colleague and "friend" was busily prepping a tell-all. There are a lot of moments when I felt uncomfortable reading this memoir of a life in television, as while you'll learn a great deal of what it took to make Tony Bourdain's TV shows, it's also quite self-lacerating on the part of Vitale. His goal is to purge himself of grief and emotional baggage, and get on with his life, as, to be honest, living a twenty-year adventure can just become a good way to avoid dealing with one's own emotional issues; the better not to wind up like his boss and friend. As for whether Bourdain could have been helped with a timely intervention, who knows? Vitale does believe that there were some signs ahead of time that a crisis point was fast approaching, but they were easy to miss in the whirl of making television. I would also note that the more you're familiar with the shows Bourdain and his "pirate crew" made over the years, the more you will get out of this book. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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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 interest in the cultures he visited made the world feel smaller and more knowable. Despite his affable, sometimes arch TV persona, the real Tony was intensely private, deeply conflicted about his fame, and an enigma even to those close to him-except for the crew following him around the world. And almost no one knew him better than his long-time producer and director Tom Vitale. Over the course of ten years traveling together, Tony became a boss, a friend, a hero and, sometimes, a tormentor. In the Weeds takes readers behind the scenes and behind the guise, to reveal not just the insanity that went into filming in some of the most volatile places in the world, but the complicated man behind the Anthony Bourdain persona. Tom tells the stories behind-the-scenes of traveling to places like Borneo, Mozambique, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Libya, and many more, all while trying to film a TV show"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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*(I'm glad I read this and I agreed with another review that said it was an excellent companion to the Bourdain Oral History. I'm glad I read that one first, because it gave me a lot of background on Anthony Bourdain's life and childhood.)* ( )