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How one man destroyed the Food Network: Guy Fieri

It seems like almost no one can be famous for a considerable period of time without becoming an insufferable whatever.

Think about the reality distortion zone around a celeb. They can't really trust anyone or not wonder about their motives and interactions, from TMZ to crooked investment schemers to glad-handers and people who just wanna somehow be in their shadow. Many normal people just act weird and giddy around celebs.

Plus, there are so many people for whom celebrities' success smacks them in the face of their own personal failures or perceptions of sorts....I always call it the "high horse" thing, where someone is always trying to knock someone else down notches because they dared to stand up and be noticed. It's very tiresome and it happens often within families.

I always got the impression that Fieri is just a Sonoma Cty bro' who got famous and all the others around him just love to find a flaw in character, a slip of the tongue whatever to then fixate on for life. People just do that.

And people who have celebrity often have that burning inner need to be recognized. It's not a pretty thing.

All the fame in the world doesn't solve a person's inner issues, in fact, it seems to amplify them, I say, on the week of Robin William's suicide.

Don't know the guy (Fieri) though my family up North have friends who have known him and had varioys interactions.. don't care much for the show but it doesn't surprise me that he might come off that way to at least someone.
 
I've heard the exact same thing about GF as was stated previously. Someone who lives a block away from him said they used to be freinds with him. Now that he is famous, he doesn't know them.
 
I must admit I have hunted down a few of the places I've seen on TV like HRD Coffee Shop and Ikes Sandwiches.
 
westie said:
I must admit I have hunted down a few of the places I've seen on TV like HRD Coffee Shop and Ikes Sandwiches.
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Ditto. Found a sandwich shop in San Mateo and a southern comfort food place in Berkeley because of Diners, Drive-ins and Dives.
 
It must be like those special cats in Indonesia where they eat coffee beans and then their poo becomes some of the most expensive coffee in existence.
 
Bay Arean said:
It seems like almost no one can be famous for a considerable period of time without becoming an insufferable whatever.

Think about the reality distortion zone around a celeb. They can't really trust anyone or not wonder about their motives and interactions, from TMZ to crooked investment schemers to glad-handers and people who just wanna somehow be in their shadow. Many normal people just act weird and giddy around celebs.

Plus, there are so many people for whom celebrities' success smacks them in the face of their own personal failures or perceptions of sorts....I always call it the "high horse" thing, where someone is always trying to knock someone else down notches because they dared to stand up and be noticed. It's very tiresome and it happens often within families.

I always got the impression that Fieri is just a Sonoma Cty bro' who got famous and all the others around him just love to find a flaw in character, a slip of the tongue whatever to then fixate on for life. People just do that.

And people who have celebrity often have that burning inner need to be recognized. It's not a pretty thing.

All the fame in the world doesn't solve a person's inner issues, in fact, it seems to amplify them, I say, on the week of Robin William's suicide.

Don't know the guy (Fieri) though my family up North have friends who have known him and had varioys interactions.. don't care much for the show but it doesn't surprise me that he might come off that way to at least someone.
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I always thought Guy Fieri was a fake name for a grown up Mark McGrath
 
Tony Bourdain talked about the change of the Food Network.

First he excludes Bobby Flay from any criticism. He is a real chef, a long time host of the FN.

But he points out that while FN is barely about quality cooking and food any more, the channel is widely successful.

Unfortunately, that is what matters, ratings not quality.
 
aminalmutha said:
Bourdain is a dickbag.
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disagree
Ive been a fan since way before the shows (reading his stuff).
while being an admitted junkie and developing a narcissistic Rockstar complex when he was younger he has changed into a well rounded honest person.

(based on the tone of his writing, I've never met him)
 
part of his appeal is his snark.he lays it on a little thick at times
and do much prefer his to disingenuous bullshit from most others.
 
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