The Bear’s Cousin Richie, played by Ebon Moss-Bachrach, has come a long way from when viewers first met him as a curmudgeonly creature of habit who’s quick to fight his cousin, Carmy Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White), and his sous chef Sydney (Ayo Edebiri) at every turn. When Carmy returns to …
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This post contains spoilers for Season Two of The Bear, which is now streaming on Hulu. Late in the finale of this extraordinary season of The Bear, Sydney (Ayo Edebiri) runs out to the alley behind the FX dramedy’s eponymous restaurant to puke. She still has PTSD from the incident …
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“Sandoval, have you slept with anyone else since you and Raquel started sleeping together?” Andy Cohen asks Vanderpump Rules star Tom Sandoval at the show’s Season 10 reunion. Only weeks prior, it was revealed that Sandoval and Raquel Leviss were having a monthslong affair behind Ariana Madix’s back, despite Sandoval …
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A very strange thing happened to me early in the second season premiere of FX‘s The Bear. An early scene features Carmy (Jeremy Allen White), Sydney (Ayo Edebiri), and the rest of the restaurant dramedy’s colorful group of characters arguing over everything they will need to do and spend in …
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For Anthony Bourdain, success came late in life — he was 43, ancient by celebrity standards — but when it did come it came suddenly and surely. One morning — it was April 12, 1999 — he woke up as he usually did, a man with no credit cards or …
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