Bourdain

By MARK KENNEDY - AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Biographers try as best they can to walk in the shoes of their subjects. Charles Leerhsen took it a step further: He slept in the same French…

When  Roadrunner, a documentary about late TV chef and traveler Anthony Bourdain, opened in theaters last month, its director, Morgan Neville, spiced up promotional interviews with an unconventional disclosure for a documentarian. Some…

Around that time, Mr. Bourdain wrote to his friend and artist David Choe: “David, this is a crazy thing to ask, but I’m curious,” describing his life with an expletive, “You’re successful, and I’m successful, and I’m wondering: Are you…

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Early in Morgan Neville’s enthralling and unsettling “Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain,” a documentary feature playing in theaters, the filmmaker is heard speaking softly behind the camera. Gossip isn’t what he’s after,…

Laurie Woolever, who co-wrote ‘World Travel: An Irreverent Guide’ with Anthony Bourdain, says the book is an artefact of the world as it was when the chef, author and television host, visited it One would imagine a travel guide has no…

“I’ve come to think of the film as an act of therapy for the public,” Neville said in an interview. “I think for people who only know Tony as someone they were a fan of, like me, there was just this giant question mark hanging over his life…

In a trailer out Thursday for “Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain,” the viewer sees a man whose life was simultaneously all about food and not about food at all. The story of celebrity chef-turned-travel documentarian Bourdain, who…