Hollywood just made a movie about 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain finding his calling in a Provincetown kitchen in 1975.
What the movie can't show is that the calling kept him broke for the next 24 years.
Bourdain spent his 20s and 30s as a line cook and a heroin addict. At 42 he was running the kitchen at a Manhattan bistro with no health insurance, months behind on rent, and he couldn't qualify for a credit card.
So he wrote an essay about the ugly truths of restaurant kitchens. His mother, an editor at the New York Times, sent it to The New Yorker without telling him.
It ran in April 1999. A publisher offered $50,000 to expand it into a book. Kitchen Confidential spent 44 weeks on the bestseller list and got translated into more than 20 languages.
Bourdain opened his first savings account at 44. The same age he became the most famous food voice in America.
The kid in this movie believes the Provincetown summer is where his story begins. It took another quarter century, and 2,000 words his mom mailed behind his back, before the world agreed.
LeBron James longevity notes:
- Roughly 140 active players born after his NBA debut
- Played against ~37% of all players in NBA history
- Outlasted every player from 2003-06 draft classes
- Spent more than half his life as an All-NBA player
- Oldest opponent was born in 1962 (Kevin Willis)
- Youngest opponent was born in 2006 (Cooper Flagg)
- Played against 1,857 different opponents
- Played with 250 different teammates
- Played against 12 father-son combinations
- Played against 4 of his son's AAU/HS/college teammates
- Older than 6 active head coaches
- Played against 5 active head coaches
'THE BATMAN 2' DELAYED AGAIN
Matt Reeves and Robert Pattinson's "The Batman Part II" will now open in in theaters on February 18, 2028. That release date is nearly six years after the March 2022 opening of #TheBatman.
Reeves announced the news alongside the first camera test footage of Robert Pattinson's return as the Dark Knight.
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