Now everyone who's watched high intensity TV chef Gordon Ramsey knows he brings the heat into the kitchen. Some people are now saying that the loud mouthed celebrity chef is too hot too handle. The somebody is his fellow Hot Potato TV judge Eric Ripert. Ripert lashed out at Ramsey via social networking site Twitter following the death by suicide of their colleague Joseph Cerniglia.
Cerniglia has his problems. His restaurant was 80 000 in debt. To make matters even worse he'd recently gotten busted for cocaine. The bust took place in his restaurant. Now that leads to a whole other bag of trouble. In addition to jail time, he could've wound up losing the business, depending on whether or not prosecutors felt like making a federal case out of it. So Cerniglia decided to beat them to the punch by jumping the gun. He jumped off of a bridge into the Hudson River.
Though Cerniglia had plenty of personal problems not everyone is willing to let Ramsay off of the hook. Ramsay's co judge on his latest reality TV chef show, Eric Ripert, took to Twitter to give Gordo a blast. Said Ripert via the social networking site:
"Nothing personal against Gordon Ramsay but he is a poor inspiration for
professional chefs in his shows," Ripert tweeted. "I have my bad days to but
always try to improve. TV or not - its no excuse! Ultimately I believe in the
goodness of Gordon but he is very wrong."
Ramsay can be hard to take. On one episode he made reference to Cerniglia's personal troubles by telling him that his business was about to swim down the Hudson. Nor is this the 1st Ramsay chef to cash in their chips. In 2007 a Hell's Kitchen chef, Rachel Brown, shot herself in her Dallas home. There's another Ramsay connection - the chef's brother is a long term heroin addict. For the uninitiated, heroin is a major pain receiver. So some are speculating that Ramsay is a hard man to deal with. At the very least he's probably not the guy to call if you're standing on the George Washington Bridge thinking about jumping and looking for some one to hand you a life line.
This kind of casual, cool realism has given the new British films easy ascendancy. Room at the
Top features the new cool realism. Not only is it not a success story, it is as much an
announcement of the end of the Cinderella package as Marilyn Monroe was the end of the star
system. Room at the Top is the story of how the higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his
backside. The moral is that success is not only wicked but also the formula for misery. It is very
hard for a hot medium like film to accept the cool message of TV. But the Peter Sellers movies I'm
All Right, Jack and Only Two Can Play are perfectly in tune with the new temper created by the
cool TV image. Such is also the meaning of the ambiguous success of Lolita. As a novel, its
acceptance announced the antiheroic approach to romance. The film industry had long beaten out
a royal road to romance in keeping with the crescendo of the success story. Lolita announced that
the royal road was only a cowtrack, after all, and as for success, it shouldn't happen to a dog.
~Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media
