The LA Times did a post in 2006 about "All You Can Eat", a competitive eating screenplay by Josh Heald, writer of Hot Tub Time Machine 2, (The project appears to have been tabled; it no longer appears on Heald's IMDB page). To research the script, Heald competed in the 2006 Nathan's Las Vegas qualifier where Joey Chestnut became the first American to hit 50 hot dogs. (The post claims that a competitor at that event fainted and needed to be removed by stretcher, which is the first I had heard about that incident.)
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anonymous said
February 20, 2015 @ 7:21 pm
What hurt Joey chestnut was something as simpl as the name.Its dull sounding almost as dull as john doe or david kagle. It lacks pizzazz. If he came on scene as joey the destryer or chizz chestnut it would have done wonders for his media image. But on the name joey chestnut one doesn’t cut it
anonymous said
February 20, 2015 @ 7:43 pm
That’s why Tim has face paint and goes by “Eater X”, with a story line to match. He and some others have a distinctive look and shtick, which helps their notoriety.
anonymous said
February 21, 2015 @ 12:09 am
Exactly 743 Can you enjoy plain pasta with no marinara sauce? Very few can