Tony is delicious—but is it true?
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What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in Tony
A new coming-of-age biopic follows Anthony Bourdain through a formative summer in the kitchens and beaches of Provincetown. But was he really forced to sleep on a porch?
Aug 21, 20266:23 PM
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The film traces Anthony Bourdain's dreams of "culinary grandeur" to their origins in Provincetown
The Anthony Bourdain biopic “Tony” explores a pivotal summer in 1975 when the future chef-traveler worked in a Cape Cod kitchen.
In the acclaimed new drama Tony, the early career of the late food writer and chef is brought to life, and those who knew him…
Writers Todd Bartels and Lou Howe went to Provincetown to retrace the steps Bourdain took as a directionless young man. A few…
Dominic Sessa stars as a young Anthony Bourdain in this drama about his summer spent working in a Cape Cod restaurant
Tony is a biopic of Anthony Bourdain, the late, great chef who, in fact, considered himself a writer first – his memoir Kitchen…
