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> Dee Randall wrote:
>> "Nancy Young" > wrote in message
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>> > "Dee Randall" > wrote
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>> >> Yes, Bourdain's is really a smoker, and you can tell the toll it (and
>> >> probably other things?) takes on him.
>> >
>> > I believe he's a recovering (?) heroin addict. I think he's
>> > really likeable and pretty damm funny. Did you see him in
>> > Japan with the vending machines, so funny.
>> >
>> > nancy
>>
>> I haven't seen that yet (as far as my fading memory serves me - short
>> term
>> memory loss). I have the Asian (and Japan) recorded and all I can get.
>> We
>> watch one when we can. DH and I both enjoy the shows.
>> He's certainly more entertaining than most of the travel/food shows --
>> maybe too over-the-top for some, tho.
>>
>> I figured he had or had/had a problem with drugs. Too darned skinny.
>
> He was on the Letterman show several months ago, and Letterman teased
> Bourdain about how he didn't have an ounce of fat on him. Then
> Letterman observed that, in most of his travel shows, Bourdain seemed
> to smoke a lot and consume a lot of the local spirits. "That's how I
> get to keep this girlish figure," Bourdain quipped.

I would've loved to seen that. Letterman and he must've been a pair -- a
pair of skeletons. So! Bourdain also knows that he has girly legs and girly
arms; must've been his intent.
Anyway, I hope he's beat the heroin.
Dee Dee