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Eddie Huang’s TIFF Doc ‘Vice Is Broke’ Takes Shot at Company and How Media Has Evolved: ‘I Really Want To Do the Vice Scripted Show’
Eddie Huang TIFF Doc ‘Vice Is Broke’ Takes Shot at Company.
Then, he noticed that he was owed money for his on-camera work for Vice, including the TV series “Huang’s World,” in which he traveled and experienced other cultures in the style of his role model and late friend, Anthony Bourdain. The bankruptcy was the moment I was like, ‘I’ve amassed all of this information over the last few years just on personal curiosity.’” Huang, with the leverage of the money owed him, negotiated out of his non-disclosure agreement; this film is his attempt to present what it was like inside the convoluted world of Vice. But his iconoclastic nature — he didn’t like, and left his role at, the sitcom adaptation of his book, and as a chef became known as, per one magazine headline, “The Bad Boy of Pork Buns” — led him to a place where outsiders were welcomed.
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