Russell Crowe donates $5,000 to Beirut restaurant loved by Anthony Bourdain, which was damaged in the massive Beirut explosion.
broke out. Beirut was heavily bombed, and Bourdain and his crew were eventually evacuated by the U.S. Marines, along with other foreigners trapped in the city.Crowe’s generosity comes as Beirut again struggles to get on its feet after last Tuesday’s explosion that ripped through the city.
A fixture in the city’s Gemmayze neighborhood since 1967, Le Chef is a simple restaurant known for its homestyle cooking and the booming “Welcomes!” of its owner, Charbel Bassil. The country was already struggling with an economic crisis before the explosion. With government services nearly nonexistent, Lebanese generosity and resilience, strengthened during 15 years of civil war in the 1970s and 80s, took their place.Neighbors and strangers alike came together to rush the wounded to hospitals, and in the aftermath, clear the debris and begin the slow process of rebuilding.
Numerous GoFundMe campaigns and donation drives for NGOs have been launched. They’ve raised millions of dollars for everyone from first responders to individual families to museums and restaurants. Bourdain looked back on Beirut in an interview for the Emmy Awards years after that first, ill-fated trip, “It got all of us thinking about a lot of things, you know, what’s important in life…it was a big, everything-changed-sort-of-thing.”
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