Hacking Netflix reports that a movie called Gluttonous will be available tomorrow. The Netflix website has the following description for the movie:

Based on a popular Japanese manga, this pair of sidesplitting live action comedies follows the screwball exploits of a host of unconventional participants in the ferociously intense world of competitive eating. While most people try to temper their food intake, these competitors pride themselves on swallowing as much food as they can in the shortest possible time — and keeping it down long enough to win!

Gluttonous is known in Japan as Gourmet Fighter Both Natsuko “Gal” Sone and Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota appeared as competitive eaters in Gourmet Fighter. Volume 1 and Volume 2 are included in the Netflix rental.

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The TV Funhouse clip in which Takeru Kobayashi dunked his hot dog buns to avert a flood was not shown on last night’s compilation of sports themed segments from Saturday Night Live, but a fake commercial in which John Belushi plays a champion decathlete who attributes his success to his diet was broadcast and the captured clip is attached below

belushidecathlon.mp4 (2.4 MB)

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Summing the cash purses in the IFOCE contests list (and adding the missing 2008 Krystal finals) reveals that the combined amount of the purses increased from $128,650 to $156,050 ($10,000 was not awarded due to the Kolache Factory’s contest cancellation by Hurricane Ike) The increase was mainly due due the adding of the Oklahoma BBQ ($10,000 purse) and Famous Famigia pizza ($14,000 purse) and the increase of the Krystals finals purse from $35,000 to $50,000.

Combining the first half purses of $51,750 (2007) and $28,250 (2008) from a previous blog entry produces a total purse of $180,400 for 2007 and and $184,300 for 2008 (of which $174,300 was awarded)

The 2007 purse does not include any amounts for the Las Vegas Spike TV contests since those values have never been publicized.

A list of all the contest purses is available after the jump.
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There does not appear to be any information about an upcoming Wing Championship Series on ESPN Radio 1250’s website. The first qualifier last year took place on January 9.

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Badlands Booker’s new CD, Entrees & Leftovers, the Best of Hungry & Focused is now available for purchase via paypal (click on the B above iTunes digital downloads) on Booker’s myspace page.

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The new poll asks what you think was the top competitive eating themed television program of the previous year.

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Brian Seiken has set up a website at the http://beautifulbrian.com/ URL. There is not as much content as the site had when it was hosted on hometown.aol.com, but additional material will be forthcoming.

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• Krispy Kreme eating contest at Arkansas Harley Davidson tommorow, 1st prize is a $500 Harley Davidson gift certificate
• Taco eating contest for charity in England with four qualifiers
• Jelly doughnut eating contest on January 8 at Dick’s Last Resort in Myrtle Beach, SC in honor of Elvis’ birthday
• Chip Simpson is excited for 2009 now that he no longer has a “huge weight keeping me down”
• Dale Boone’s Apple Ugly victory makes the list of strange news of 2008 in Rowan County, NC

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Several galleries of New York City IFOCE contests have been uploaded to flickr recently:

• Famous Famiglia pizza contest gallery with French captions. There are additional pictures in the slideshow embedded in the blog entry about the contest
• Gallery with pictures from both the 2005 and 2006 Nathan’s finals
• 2005 Nathan’s gallery, mainly of the TV van
• 2006 Nathan’s gallery, with no pictures of the actual contest
• The men’s record is not turned on in a picture of the Wall of Fame taken today

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• January, Eddie “Bozo” Miller – listed as the “world’s greatest trencherman” in the Guinness Book of World Records, lived to be 89 despite a daily calorie consumption that reportedly reached 25,000
• February, Adam Deely of Birmingham, UK. This was one of the BBC’s top 10 Welsh stories.
• August – unnamed Ukrainian varenik dumpling contest participant
• September – Paul Newman – his egg eating scene in Cool Hand Luke is probably the most famous eating challenge in cinematic history
• October – unnamed graduate student at Dayeh University in Taiwan
• November – Saurav Sabbarwal – solutions engineer at Nokia Siemens in Guragon, India
• December – Carson “Collard Green” Hughes – the top eater from southern Virginia in IFOCE history. The author of the 2003 New York Times article about Hughes has a blog entry from 2006 about it

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