Wow. That's crazy. Only 61. Just read it was a suicide.
I read his first cocaine and bjs book in 2001 or so. Seemed like a cool cat. Unfortunately the hipster crowd glommed onto him and treated him like some kind of beatnik Rock and Roll poet God for food and it turned me off of him.
Between him and Guy Fieri, who I want to punch in the fucking face, if I had a restaurant in the US Guy would be the one I'd want to visit me. That dude has done more for small businesses in the food industry in the US than any 10 Anthony Bs could ever do.
That said, it's curious why he'd go the way he did and now. Is there some kind of "OMG he made me feel bad in my pee pee spot once eleventybillion years ago and now I'm writing a tell all about it" revelation coming about?
Not a huge Guy fan. All that douchy jewelry and bleached hair reminds me of a retired Backstreet Boy.
He gave me the creeps
I'd much rather watch Guy go to places I'm likely to have to travel to than watch creepy bum a plate of alley rat off a peruvian drifter.
Why? He was a bit quirky but his shows and books were good. Guy rolls around safe areas in the US and eats his weight in food. Never seen him cook anything...
I didn't watch his show much, so maybe I only caught the outliers, but he had some dixie chick style politico rants in some foreign country on the episode I saw. I don't care for late in life tattoo man telling me how the world should work when all I signed up for is watching people eat roadkill.
But Guy is the best thing to happen to those small businesses, ever.
Anthony came across as trying too hard to be some beatnik. THough I didn't watch much of his later stuff since CNN turned from a news agency to a entertainment site.
Between him and Guy Fieri, who I want to punch in the fucking face, if I had a restaurant in the US Guy would be the one I'd want to visit me. That dude has done more for small businesses in the food industry in the US than any 10 Anthony Bs could ever do.
And the name of his program was... ?Ballah06 said:some local dives Guy does
While driving cross-country with my daughter, we went to the DDD website to find places that had been featured on the show.
Every single place we tried was boarded up and gone.
The backwards sunglasses and painted hair are very annoying to me, too.
And the name of his program was... ?
Only reason i've ever heard of the dead guy is cuz my daughter used to binge watch food shows, and his ads were attached to some of them.
Is that what "Flahr-rid-ah" rednecks are like?You talking about Fieri? It was DDD. Kinda reminded me of that Robert dude who goes 'fixing up' failing restaurants; most are no longer in business of course. Fieri is like a Florida redneck who tries too hard to hype things up.