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BabaYaga

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To quote Brit Hume, in the wake of the Kate Spade suicide, 

" Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always."

Begs the question of medication/drug side effects (psychotropics)?  We know he suffered from depression for most of his life.  Tragic

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BabaYaga

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Just now, Anastasis said:

uh oh, there might be a pussy undefeated angle here. Looks like his GF was getting cozy with some other guy in Rome last week. 

Wasn't she a Weinstein accuser as well?  And he was a recovering heroin addict.  Just a cocktail of crap to deal with.  

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5807979/Asia-Argento-embraces-Hugo-Clement-shared-attack-Harvey-Weinstein-Cannes.html

 

I don't know shit man, and maybe I am misreading this, but they seem pretty cozy in those pics. Its like the person who captioned the pics and wrote part of the story didnt realize that that isnt bourdain. 

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5 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5807979/Asia-Argento-embraces-Hugo-Clement-shared-attack-Harvey-Weinstein-Cannes.html

 

I don't shit man, and maybe I am misreading this, but they seem pretty cozy in those pics. 

Holmes, I think you're onto something.
Pussy is not defeated.


Also he's 2 years from a supposed "amicable" divorce from his wife (mother of his daughter).,
I think running around the world from place to place and not really having that centering element probably didn't help, even though he was back home quite a bit in between.
No matter how "fun" it seems tooling around the globe, it can get awfully, awfully, lonely.  Those here who travel a lot know what I mean.


 

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1 hour ago, Anastasis said:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5807979/Asia-Argento-embraces-Hugo-Clement-shared-attack-Harvey-Weinstein-Cannes.html

 

I don't know shit man, and maybe I am misreading this, but they seem pretty cozy in those pics. Its like the person who captioned the pics and wrote part of the story didnt realize that that isnt bourdain. 

ugh that's sad.  i can't imagine the torment someone has to go through to drive them to suicide, but how much worse would it be if it were the result of something like that article suggests.  just terrible.

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Well, those photos are undeniable.  That's not a platonic weekend jaunting about Rome.

I read Bourdain's book after getting into his TV shows.  It wasn't a masterpiece and it rambled but the stories and behind the scenes revelations were terrific.  And his shows, well, he was just a very compelling, charismatic person who could seemingly get along with just about anybody, although I'm sure he didn't suffer fools gladly.  Given his addictions and general disposition, it doesn't surprise me that he had some heavy darkness going on to this day, but suicide?  Fuck.

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Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean favored, and imperially slim.
 
And he was always quietly arrayed,
And he was always human when he talked;
But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
"Good-morning," and he glittered when he walked.
 
And he was rich—yes, richer than a king—
And admirably schooled in every grace:
In fine, we thought that he was everything
To make us wish that we were in his place.
 
So on we worked, and waited for the light,
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet through his head.
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He was a real inspiration to me - his whole philosophy of travel and eating (and eating while traveling) is something I still aspire to. I will admit that the last few seasons of his show were a little less interesting personally - they often seemed to devolve into fun trips he took where he would meet up with friends from the industry and dine like Gods in a remote location. It just didn't seem as attainable or important. The original series of his was really far more profound, and searched to find commonality in foreign places by bonding over food and what people found to be important in their lives. It was good stuff. His writing, though, was always on point and implored us to explore and embrace the unknown.

I simply can't imagine the demons one has in their head which would make you take your life when you have a young child who likely still depends greatly on your love and attention (he wrote a cookbook based solely on the foods she liked to eat). His depression must have been oppressive, and I hope he's at peace. But I sure as hell will miss his voice.

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1 hour ago, Biff Tannen said:

This is the forum where this deserves to be discussed.  Food and Travel.  This is upsetting me more than I thought it would.  We need more people like him in the world, but instead we're getting fewer.  Less?  Whatever.

I embraced his globetrotting several years ago and looked to emulate his style of travel off the beaten tourista path. Times change, priorities change and work inevitably wraps it's tentacles around your legs once again. I've got to plan another expedition in his honor. My passport is embarrassingly spacious.  

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I embraced his globetrotting several years ago and looked to emulate his style of travel off the beaten tourista path. Times change, priorities change and work inevitably wraps it's tentacles around your legs once again. I've got to plan another expedition in his honor. My passport is embarrassingly spacious.  
May i suggest one of his favorite places...vietnam

Wont run ya much either besides the flight

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I was always a bit disturbed by the fact that he was a recovering heroin addict that still drank.  I use the term "recovering" loosely.


dunno that he was one of us. i’ve always had the impression he just put it down.

nevertheless, this is a gut punch to me. i really liked the guy. he reminded me of my cousin to the slightest detail, even their posture and physical mannerisms.

ironically, my cousin committed suicide 12 years ago. wrote a note and spiked a massive dose of heroin.

go figure.
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Not going to embed the whole thread because it's quite long. Good story that women especially will appreciate.
 
 


Story contains this:

“He tells us stories about healing foods. And the way people express love through feeding each other. And food as religious ritual and celebratory feast.”

The dude just fucking got it.
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I normally don't care too much about celebrity deaths, but this one makes me sad. Anyone could go to exotic places and eat local foods on TV, but AB did it with a brilliant style and charisma that made it so much more enjoyable to watch. He will be greatly missed.

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This is definitely a downer. I have thousands of dollars of Global cutlery, because that’s what my favorite chef, Anthony Bourdain used. My spaghetti is legendary, it is from the episode of No Reservations, where Tony picked out simple foods all people should be able to master. I still never fail to give him credit.

 

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The Italian actress and director Asia Argento was among the first women in the movie business to publicly accuse the producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault. She became a leading figure in the #MeToo movement. Her boyfriend, the culinary television star Anthony Bourdain, eagerly joined the fight.

But in the months that followed her revelations about Mr. Weinstein last October, Ms. Argento quietly arranged to pay $380,000 to her own accuser: Jimmy Bennett, a young actor and rock musician who said she had sexually assaulted him in a California hotel room years earlier, when he was only two months past his 17th birthday. She was 37. The age of consent in California is 18.

That claim and the subsequent arrangement for payments are laid out in documents between lawyers for Ms. Argento and Mr. Bennett, a former child actor who once played her son in a movie.

The documents, which were sent to The New York Times through encrypted email by an unidentified party, include a selfie dated May 9, 2013, of the two lying in bed. As part of the agreement, Mr. Bennett, who is now 22, gave the photograph and its copyright to Ms. Argento, now 42. Three people familiar with the case said the documents were authentic.

 

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The Times has tried repeatedly since Thursday to get a response to the matter from Ms. Argento and her representatives. She did not reply to messages left on her phone, sent by email and sent to two of her agents, who agreed to forward it to her. Carrie Goldberg, her lawyer who handled the matter, read email messages from The Times, according to two people familiar with the case, but she has not responded. A woman who answered the phone at Ms. Goldberg’s office on Friday said the lawyer would not be available to discuss this article.

Mr. Bennett, who lives in Los Angeles, would not agree to be interviewed, said his lawyer, Gordon K. Sattro. “In the coming days,” Mr. Sattro wrote in an email, “Jimmy will continue doing what he has been doing over the past months and years, focusing on his music.”

 

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In an April letter addressed to Ms. Argento confirming the final details of the deal and setting out a schedule of payments, Ms. Goldberg characterized the money as “helping Mr. Bennett.”

“We hope nothing like this ever happens to you again,” Ms. Goldberg wrote. “You are a powerful and inspiring creator and it is a miserable condition of life that you live among shitty individuals who’ve preyed on both your strengths and your weaknesses.”

But for Mr. Bennett, who as a child actor charmed Harrison Ford and Bruce Willis and earned the nickname Jimmy Two-Takes because he rarely flubbed his lines, the 2013 hotel-room encounter was a betrayal that precipitated a spiral of emotional problems, according to the documents.

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The fallout from “a sexual battery” was so traumatic that it hindered Mr. Bennett’s work and income and threatened his mental health, according to a notice of intent to sue that his lawyer sent in November to Richard Hofstetter, Mr. Bourdain’s longtime lawyer, who was also representing Ms. Argento at the time.

Ms. Argento, who lives in Rome, subsequently turned to Ms. Goldberg — a prominent lawyer for victims of online attacks — to handle the case. (Mr. Hofstetter is now handling the estate of Mr. Bourdain, who killed himselfin June. Although Mr. Bourdain helped Ms. Argento navigate the matter, neither Mr. Hofstetter nor Kimberly Witherspoon, Mr. Bourdain’s longtime agent and now a spokeswoman for his wife, Ottavia Busia, from whom he was separated, would comment for this article.)

Mr. Bennett’s notice of intent asked for $3.5 million in damages for the intentional infliction of emotional distress, lost wages, assault and battery. Mr. Bennett made more than $2.7 million in the five years before the 2013 meeting with Ms. Argento, but his income has since dropped to an average of $60,000 a year, which he attributes to the trauma that followed the sexual encounter with Ms. Argento, his lawyer wrote.

In October, a month before Mr. Bennett sent his demand for money, The New Yorker published an article by Ronan Farrow that included Ms. Argento among 13 women who accused Mr. Weinstein of harassment and rape.

Ms. Argento, whose father, Dario Argento, is a noted director of Italian horror films, began her acting career as a child. She went on to win two David di Donatello Awards, the Italian equivalent of Oscars, and has directed films, written a novel and recorded music.

After she spoke out about Mr. Weinstein, Ms. Argento quickly emerged as a powerful voice for women who have been mistreated by men. In May, she gave a riveting speech at the Cannes Film Festival in which she called the festival Mr. Weinstein’s “hunting ground.” She said he had raped her there in 1997, when she was 21.

The relationship with Mr. Weinstein continued for years afterward and sometimes included sex, The New Yorker reported. Ms. Argento, who had acted in a movie Mr. Weinstein produced, told the magazine that she feared angering him. It was a complicated situation in which she said she felt powerless. “After the rape, he won,” she told Mr. Farrow.

 

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Mr. Weinstein has pleaded not guilty to six felony counts in New York, including first-degree rape; none are related to Ms. Argento. His lawyers have said their relationship was consensual.

Mr. Bourdain, long a fan of her father’s work, met Ms. Argento when he was shooting an episode of his CNN show “Parts Unknown” in Rome in late 2016. The two became a couple, and Mr. Bourdain became her champion as she emerged as a leading figure in the battle against sexual assault and harassment, speaking at conferences and at Harvard.

For Mr. Bennett, seeing Ms. Argento present herself as a victim of sexual assault was too much to bear, his lawyer wrote, and called up memories of their hotel reunion. “His feelings about that day were brought to the forefront recently when Ms. Argento took the spotlight as one of the many victims of Harvey Weinstein,” Mr. Sattro wrote in the notice of intent to sue.

 
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Jimmy Bennett, playing Asia Argento’s son, in this image from the 2004 film “The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things.” Mr. Bennett has claimed that Ms. Argento assaulted him in 2013, when he was 17.

Ms. Argento, who is divorced and has two children, was both a mentor and a mother figure to Mr. Bennett, the document says, and the two were intermittently in contact as he grew up. “Jimmy’s impression of this situation was that a mother-son relationship had blossomed from their experience on set together,” Mr. Sattro wrote.

Mr. Bennett began acting at age 6, when he was cast in a commercial for a Dodge Caravan. He went on to appear in dozens of other commercials, and secured roles in several television shows. His prolific movie career started in 2003 with “Daddy Day Care,” which starred Eddie Murphy.

Mr. Bennett was 7 when he was cast in “The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things,” a 2004 film Ms. Argento directed, starred in and helped write.

 

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The script, based on a book by the pseudonymous writer JT LeRoy, depicts the grim relationship between a drug-addicted prostitute played by Ms. Argento and her son, played by Mr. Bennett and two other young actors. Ms. Argento’s character dresses her son as a girl to lure men, and the boy is ultimately raped.

In interviews and subsequent social media posts between the two over the years, they referred to each other as mother and son.

On May 9, 2013, the day they met for a reunion in her room at a Ritz-Carlton in Marina del Rey, Calif., she posted on Instagram: “Waiting for my long lost son my love @jimmymbennett in trepidation #marinadelrey smoking cigarettes like there was no next week.”

Mr. Bennett responded, “I’m almost there!:)”

Mr. Bennett, who has an eye condition that prevents him from driving, arrived at Ms. Argento’s hotel room that morning with a family member, according to his notice of intent.

The document lays out Mr. Bennett’s account: Ms. Argento asked the family member to leave so she could be alone with the actor. She gave him alcohol to drink and showed him a series of notes she had written to him on hotel stationery. Then she kissed him, pushed him back on the bed, removed his pants and performed oral sex. She climbed on top of him and the two had intercourse, the document says. She then asked him to take a number of photos.

Later that day she posted a close-up of their faces on Instagram with the caption, “Happiest day of my life reunion with @jimmymbennett xox,” and added that “jimmy is going to be in my next movie and that is a fact, dig that jack.” That post and others were included with the notice of intent, along with three photos apparently taken by Mr. Bennett that depict him and Ms. Argento in bed, their unclothed torsos exposed. (Only one of the photos taken in bed shows both their faces.)

The two had lunch, and Mr. Bennett headed home to Orange County, where he lived with his parents. As he was driven home, according to his claim, he began to feel “extremely confused, mortified, and disgusted.”

 

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But a month later, on June 8, he sent Ms. Argento a Twitter message, “Miss you momma!!!!” that included a photograph of an engraved bracelet she had given him to commemorate the movie. (His Twitter account has recently been shut down.)

That same month, he confronted his mother and stepfather over the state of a trust into which some of his earnings as an actor had been deposited, according to a lawsuit he filed in Orange County Superior Court in October 2014.

Mr. Bennett claimed his parents had barred him from the family’s house and kept his possessions, and over the years had cheated him out of at least $1.5 million in earnings. He said he was broke and two months behind on his rent. The case was settled in December 2014, but the terms were not disclosed.

In the agreement between Ms. Argento and Mr. Bennett, she agreed to pay him $380,000 over the course of a year and a half, starting with an initial payment of $200,000 that was made in April, according to a letter to Ms. Argento in which her lawyer, Ms. Goldberg, outlined the terms of the deal.

The agreement does not prevent either party from discussing it. In the letter, Ms. Goldberg explained that California law does not allow nondisclosure agreements in civil contracts involving the types of allegations made by Mr. Bennett.

One alternative, Ms. Goldberg wrote, would be to work around the California law by using New York lawyers and arguing that the laws of New York govern the agreement.

“Ultimately, you decided against the non-disclosure language because you felt it was inconsistent with the public messages you’ve conveyed about the societal perils of non-disclosure agreements,” she wrote to Ms. Argento.

 

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“Bennett could theoretically tell people his claims against you,” she wrote. “However, under this agreement, he cannot sue you for them. Nor can he post the photo of the two of you.”

“At the very least,” Ms. Goldberg added, “he is not permitted to bother you for more money, disparage you or sue — so long as you comply with your obligations in the agreement.”

Although it is unclear whether Mr. Bennett and Ms. Argento have spoken since the payment was made, Ms. Argento seems to remain supportive. On July 17, she added a “Like” to a moody portrait of himself he had posted on his Instagram account. The account has since been scrubbed of much of its content.

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Brisketexan

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13 hours ago, Anastasis said:

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Take crazy, double it, then square it.  Then MAYBE you'll be close to where she is.

BUT....is there any doubt that she's an absolute FREAK in the sheets (and on a roller coaster, and in a treehouse, and everywhere else that human beings could conceivably get freaky, and several places where they usually can't)?

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