Crazy Legs Conti has set up a myspace page to promote the DVD release of his documentary “Zen & the Art of Competitive Eating” That film will go on sale on July 24 and is available for preorder now.

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Josh Camerote, director of the Wing Bowl 13 documentary, “Swallow Your Pride” has set up a website and blog at http://www.joshcamerote.com/home.html The blog announces that a viewing of “Swallow Your Pride” has been scheduled for May 31 in Cleveland, but details have not been finalized yet.

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LATimes.com reports that talk radio hosts Opie & Anthony have been suspended from XM satellite radio for 30 days:

The hosts of “The Opie & Anthony Show” had apologized last Friday for airing a homeless man’s crude comments about wanting to have sex with First Lady Laura Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Queen Elizabeth II. But on Monday’s program, they sounded less contrite, complaining of having to adhere to their employer’s “dumb rules” and expressing sympathy for Don Imus and several other radio hosts who they said had recently lost jobs “just for trying to entertain people.”

An audio clip of the segment responsible for the suspension is available.

IFOCE competitor Pat Philbin is a frequent guest on the Opie & Anthony show and was temporarily suspended from IFOCE for appearing in a controversial video recorded at the Opie & Anthony studios.

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In addition to the 4 hours of eating contests to be rerun on ESPN2 tonight starting at 7pm eastern, CBS will rerun the competitive eating themed CSI at 9pm tonight that was originally broadcast on Thanksgiving weekend 2005.

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(From “The Savage” comment)

There was a hot dog eating contest in tonight’s episode of the NBC comedy, “The Office”. watchingtheoffice describes the contest in their recap of tonight’s episode:

Next event, Michael had Pam cooks up hundreds of hotdogs for a hotdog eating contest. No one is really keen on the idea and in his frustration Michael finally reveals his plan. Whoever excells at these challenges will be the next regional manager. Stanley starts stuffing his face.
Stanley: “I would rather work for an up-turned broom with a bucket for a head than work for anyone else in this office besides myself. Game on!”

Creed walks up, “No one told me we were having hotdogs.” The fish he caught earlier is now only bones.

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HerosTv.com describes some sections of the upcoming “Simpsons” video game:

The Wii version will include a mini-game where Homer is in a eating contest and players must use the Wii remote as a spoon.

The level that was shown at the event was called “Around the World in 80 Bits” and featured Homer eating a bunch of ethnic foods (including the Insanity Chili Pepper from the “Vision Quest” episode) and growing into a huge, Katamari-esque, ball of lard.

Hopefully the mini-game will be more successful than the most recent Wii / competitive eating fusion.

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(From Krystal Lovers) There will be 4 hours of competitive eating reruns on ESPN2 Saturday night The programs will be one hour long instead of the half hour edited reruns which are often televised.

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GameShowNet has a writeup of Crazy Legs Conti’s and Tim “Eater X” Janus’ appearance on “Cash Cab” on the Discovery Channel this past Monday.

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The hot dog eating contest from last season’s “Grey’s Anatomy”, won by the intern played by Sandra Oh, can be viewed at http://youtube.com/watch?v=ObmSkXjumLg

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philly.com has a short writeup of Joey Chestnut’s appearance on the NBC game show “Identity”

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From jinryuichi-hnph

In an event and press announcement in Tsuchiura – Tsuji Nozomi, Gyaru Sone and Tokito Ami will team up in a new Unit “Gyaruru”. It’s a ganguro fashion-based Para-Para gyaru unit, a trend that is popular in places like Shibuya, Tokyo. They each get a nickname for themselves – ‘Tsujiji’, ‘Amimi’ and ‘Sonene’. I think you can guess who is who.

Surprise #1[EDIT]: Guess what? Gyaruru will be releasing a new single produced by Tsunku, and fashion coordination will be handled by one Gyaru manager/entrepreneur – Fujita Miho of G-Revo. The single is called “Boom Boom Mecha Macho” c/w “Onna no urutora”, and will be released under TNX on 20th June this year.

The magazine spread in the previous blog entry was to promote the group. The upcoming single has a promotional page

Tsuji Nozomi is a former member of Morning Musume, which had the eating “contest” with Nobuyuki Shirota in their Christmas special.

Other sites: Hello Online, someboys, japtard

update: JPopMusic has a 14 page forum thread about the group. A live version of the single is available.

updated #2 A video clip about the press conference from a morning news show is also available

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(From Rhonda Evans) The episode of Animal Planet’s “Most Extreme” titled “Battle of the Sexes” featuring a cheesecake eating contest between Sonya Thomas and Eric “Badlands” Booker will be rerun tonight at 7pm and 2am this morning (Both times eastern)

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A clip of an egg eating contest from MTV’s “Adventures in Hollyhood” can be seen at http://youtube.com/watch?v=9IORDGSsIdY

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(From AICE News) ADLAW reports that the Federal Communciations Commission has fined CBS, the owner of 610 WIP of Philadelphia, $4,000 for banning Arnie “Chowhound” Chapman from competing in Wing Bowl 13 for being a member of AICE when no explicit rule prohibiting eaters from that organization existed:

The station said it disqualified him from competing in Wing Bowl 13 because he belonged to a competitive eating association, the Association of Independent Competitive Eaters (AICE). CBS stated that AICE is a rival of the group historically associated with the Wing Bowl, the Independent Federation of Competitive Eating (IFOCE).

CBS argued that Mr. Chapman should have known that he could not compete in the contest because members of IFOCE-rival associations previously had been disqualified from participating in the Wing Bowl 12 for the same reason. CBS also pointed to contest rules that allowed the station to disqualify contestants for subjective criteria, and a rule requiring contestants be station listeners. Mr. Chapman did not reside within the station’s broadcast area, so he could not be a listener, CBS argued.

The FCC noted that according to its rules, broadcasters are required to “fully and accurately disclose the material terms” of a contest. Further, such contests must be conducted “substantially as announced or advertised.”

The FCC concluded that CBS willfully violated these rules and fined the station $4,000.

update More information can be found in the document detailing Chapman’s complaint at fcc.gov CBS claimed that Joe Menchetti’s disqualification from Wing Bowl 12 should have made Chapman aware that non-IFOCE members were not welcome:

[Chapman’s] participation was incompatible with the IFOCE’s participation. Chapman had at least constructive or presumptive knowledge of this from the facts surrounding Gentleman Joe’s disqualification from Wing Bowl 12 and from the realities of the competitive eating world . . . In Wing Bowl 12, WIP established that with IFOCE eaters included as Wing Bowl competitors, professional eaters allied with national organizations that are active IFOCE rivals would not be welcome as competitors.

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The Spike TV website has been revamped and the page which previously had videos from the Saint Patrick’s Day Chowdown, http://www.spiketv.com/#shows/mle/index.jhtml is basically blank. (On the positive side, the commercial has been removed as well)

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A clip of an eating contest from a Spike TV program which is not the Saint Patrick’s Day Chowdown can be seen at http://youtube.com/watch?v=qWW9OKmp5bA If you are not satisfied with how Spike portrayed competitive eating in the Chowdown, this clip featuring a “hurl cam” shows that it could have been worse.

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Brian Seiken has uploaded the pretzel eating contest featuring Tim Janus and Seaver Miller from today’s episode of the Tyra Banks show to http://hometown.aol.com/beautifulbrian43/tyra.html

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A commercial for tommorow’s Tyra Banks show with Tim Janus and Seaver Miller can be seen at http://tyrashow.warnerbros.com/ (Click on Tuesday) The schedule for the show (varies locally) can be seen at http://tyrashow.warnerbros.com/showinfo/whenitson.html

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TyraNews.blogspot.com has the following show summary for Tuesday:

Tuesday, 10 April 2007: Doing What You’ve Always Wanted To Do

What is the one thing you’ve always wanted to try? Tyra grants the wishes of lucky viewers when she gives them the chance to fulfill their lifelong dream – no matter how crazy! A self-proclaimed mama’s boy risks his life and challenges a bull in order to bond with his distant, rodeo-loving father. Another woman competes in an extreme eating contest against trained professionals.

According to a January blog entry, Tim Janus and Seaver Miller are the eaters the woman competes against.

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MetroSpirit has an interview with Donn Pearce, who wrote the novel “Cool Hand Luke” the film starring Paul Newman was based on. Pearce has an interesting comment about the egg eating contest in that film:

He is referring to the many associations to the Bible people insist run through “Cool Hand Luke.”

“I didn’t plan any of that stuff. But everyone keeps telling me Luke is like Jesus. In the film it was heavy. That a**hole director [Stuart] Rosenberg actually posed [Paul] Newman out like Jesus on the crucifix after the famous egg eating contest. Subtle.”

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(From EmmaOnTheLoose comment) EmmaOnTheLoose.com has a video of her training for a hot dog contest with Crazy Legs Conti and then competing in a six minute contest where her results were announced as seven hot dogs.

To view the video, click on View, then click on the middle square on the left side.

According to the CBS Sportsline article by Roland Liwag, Crazy Legs Conti claims that Emma is Emma Wilson, daughter of The Weakest Link host Anne Robinson.

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TVRaiting.blog77.fc2.com reports that yesterday’s showing of “Gluttonous Queen II” received a 14.2% audience share. This compares favorably to the audience shares received by the current NCAA college basketball tournament (10% – 16% according to zap2it.com

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A commercial for Gluttonous Queen can be viewed at http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/ in the small screen. All the competitors wore cowboy hats in Hawaii.

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The documentary about Sonya Thomas at Wing Bowl 13 produced by Jenny Drumgoole will be screened at the New York Underground Film Festival as part of the “Fierce Creatures” program on Thursday and Monday.

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tvspot reports that Natsuko “Gal” Sone’s defense of her Gluttonous Queen title will be televised on TV Tokyo April 1 and provides a summary of the program(automatically translated by Google:)

Winning with the woman match which is held 1 years ago the is gal 曽 root.　Now we have become the star talent which is large active with variety program and the like.　In order that such a gal 曽 root firm position is built as a gluttonous queen, this time they are the appearance ~ new challengers 7 people and the schedule which unfolds the battle.

tvq has a list of participants in which Tomoko Miyake appears but Miyuki Iwata is absent.

The program’s home page is http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/oogui2007_4/ The page is solely a graphic so it cannot be translated by Google.

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