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    Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent

    Director Lydia Tenaglia traces Jeremiah Tower's progression from Chez Panisse to the 1984 opening of his own restaurant, Stars, the spectacularly successful San Francisco brasserie where he reigned as a new model of celebrity chef until 1999, when the place closed. .

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    By Joe Morgenstern • Apr 22, 2017 • 3m Listen

    Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent is an unusually enjoyable portrait of a legendary chef who can be insufferable, as his most ardent admirers acknowledge, but who is also a brighter-than-life charmer, raging perfectionist, world-class hedonist, self-styled dandy and all-too-human survivor of the highest-end restaurant wars.

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