(from R Suzuki) Natsuko “Gal” Sone appeared on a “Star Search” type program which can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb7127Fmx24. The judges thought her singing was better than her male opponent’s by a margin of 7 to 3. Gal Sone did not eat, but Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota had a sushi eating contest against the two female members of the three person team that beat Gal Sone in a shish kebab contest.

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A clip of Natsuko “Gal” Sone singing (or lip syncing) on “Monomane Battle” can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zc1aMtbwh4 During an instrumental section, Gal Sone puts on a brief eating exhibition. “Monomane Battle” is a show in which people try to imitate celebrities. Laura Pasqualoni appeared on ‘Monomane Battle” as Mariah Carey.

update Gal Sone was trying to imitate Ayumi Hamasaki R Suzuki has a post about the appearance.

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I am curious if anyone has any news about “Swallow Your Pride”, a documentary filmed at the 2005 Wing Bowl. The movie’s website. swallowyourpridemovie.com is now defunct and I have not been able to find any information about screenings after the documentary won an award at the First Glance Film Festival in Philadelphia this summer.

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japanprobe reports that the clip of Kobayashi vs. an Alaskan bear was broadcast on Japanese television recently three years after it was originally recorded for Fox’s Man vs. Beast special. The clip with Japanese commentary can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=konJQH34PV8

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The LA Times has a section about Josh Heald, the author of “All You Can Eat,” a screenplay set in the world of competitive eating in its screenwriter column. The article describes Mr. Heald’s first hand experience in eating contests. The movie has yet to begin filming.

Unsurprisingly, the major challenge in moving “All You Can Eat” into production has been casting — it would take some very game comic actors who are willing to be seen stuffing food in their faces for two hours while potentially risking a disqualifying “reversal of fortune,” in the lingo of the sport.

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Pat “from Moonachie” Philbin will compete in an egg nog drinking contest on the Opie & Anthony show Friday (XM 202). Pat will also compete in the Atlantic City meatball contest on Saturday.

updated A Wackbag thread reports Pat won. His total and opponents are not listed.

updated #2 A rather gross post-contest video is available on youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjNaQm559Mw Watch at your own risk. forum thread with pictures

updated #3 A video capture of Pat’s reversal is after the jump if you are sure you want to see it

updated #4 The video has been removed from youtube due to terms of use violations. It can be seen at http://www.collegeslackers.com/video/592
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The documetary Crazy Legs Conti: Zen and the Art of Competitive Eating makes Cinematical’s list of seven documentaries to avoid following Thanksgiving Super Size Me is also on the list.

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Jason “Erbivore” Erb will also be appearing on “1 vs. 100”

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Duhneese had El Toro Jimenez as her hotel bellman when she stayed in Las Vegas. She said that El Toro claimed he would appear on the game show “1 vs. 100” in December.

This will make two NBC IFOCE appearances in about a month which is surprising since the IFOCE contests are on ABC/ESPN. Kobayashi appeared on Saturday Night Live recently.

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The episode of Cheap Seats using footage from the 2004 Nathan’s finals will be rerun at 4pm eastern on ESPN Classic. Cheap Seats will not appear on ESPN Classic after tomorrow, so this is your last chance to see it.

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The Heart Attack Grill reports that it will be the subject of John Stossel’s “Give Me a Break” segment on 20/20 tonight. 20/20 will start at 9pm instead of the usual 10pm airtime.

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With the biggest Canadian eating contest this weekend, I reposted the start of a blog entry that was originally on the Montreal Expos website in 2002. The blog entry describes a public access cable show on Ottawa cable that starred a woman named Celeste who would eat a large meal during the broadcast. The entry is in all probability a joke, but in the minor chance it was an actual program, I thought I would see if anyone had any additional information about it.

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The Heart Attack Grill announces that the ABC News program 20/20 will have a segment about that restaurant on Friday.

In other Heart Attack Grill news, “Nurse” Caterina defeated a radio DJ in a Quadruple Bypass Burger eating contest. Could “Nurse” Caterina be the successor to Carlene LeFevre as the Queen of the Southwestern competitive eating?

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Last night’s episode of Saturday Night Live had a cartoon about Kobayashi in Robert Smigel’s TV Funhouse that can be viewed at http://youtube.com/watch?v=4hkq6Qn0nQY The cartoon had a live action segment which Kobayashi describes the filming of in a blog entry. William “Refrigerator” Perry is the only person who has competed in an IFOCE contest besides Kobayashi to appear in the clip.

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Versus (formerly OLN) will broadcast a barbecuing contest. The competition will be in the format of a multiround tournament. You would think if they can show competitive cooking, they can also televise competitive eating.

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Adweek reports that the “Mr. Hot Dog Eating Contest Contestant” ad won a prize at the London International Awards for copywriting in the radio ads category.

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Berenice (Brazen) Baker has sent me the following request:

I’m a UK-based journalist and I’m planning an article that I hope will
promote a very positive image of competitive eating and also appeal to
people who wouldn’t normally read about the sport. I’d be very grateful if
you could put the word out on EatFeats for people to email me their
experiences.

Scheduled for the early months of 2007 when people might be slipping away
from their New Year’s resolutions, I want to talk about how people can
recover from overeating and return to healthy habits without feeling that
they’ve irretrievably fallen off the wagon. Who better than competitive
eaters to give advice about recovering from overindulgence?

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(Thanks Mike Wooldridge) There was a competitive eating records category on Thursday night’s episode of Jeopardy. The clues for that column can be seen at the Jeopardy archive for November 2. (If anyone recorded that show, a clip of its competitive eating questions would be appreciated) The 5 answers were about the feats of Rich LeFevre, Oleg Zhornitskiy, Cookie Jarvis, Sonya Thomas and Buffalo Jim Reeves.

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I uploaded an early version of the CSI hot dog contest clip with a messed up soundtrack yesterday. I have replaced that with the correct version and it can be downloaded at CSIHotDogContest.wmv

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I have uploaded the hot dog eating contest from last week’s episode of CSI: Las Vegas at CSIHotDogContest.wmv (13MB 5 min). The contest is sponsored The Extreme Eating Federation and has eaters based on Tim Janus, Carlene LeFevre, Cookie Jarvis and Sonya Thomas (who does not get an introduction). The Carlene LeFevre character wins the contest (or at least holds a trophy aloft at the end). The contest announcer repeats the defintion of a competitive eating situation involving cavemen and a rabbit given by the Sheas. (Despite all these similarities, some people would probably say that the EXEF paying a cash prize to the third place finisher of a hot dog qualifier would definitely place it in the realm of fiction)

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The USA Today TV Sports column has a section on the Krystal Square Off which says that Paul Page, who has appeared on several recent IFOCE broadcasts, will handle announcing duties for the Krystal Square Off III finals. Let’s hope that Page is correct in his assessment in the dangers of competitive eating versus auto racing.

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Blogcritics.org has a review of the Hungarian film Taxidermia which is playing at the London Film Festival. The review summarizes the movie’s competitive eating scenes. It appears unlikely that IFOCE will give its seal of approval to this motion picture.

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Thank “Wild Bill” Myers: The CSI episode set in the world of competitive eating that originally aired Thanksgiving weekend last year will be rerun on Thursday at 9pm on CBS. Here is the synopsis of that program:

706. Dog Eat Dog (Oct 26 2006)

An obese man is found dead in a Dumpster outside of a restaurant on Thanksgiving and his hands are filled
with mashed potatoes. The investigation leads Grissom and Catherine into the world of competitive eating.
Across town, Nick and Sara probe the deaths of a husband and wife on the verge of divorce who were
apparently attacked by a vicious dog. A golden retriever is found at the scene, but he hardly seems
like a killer.

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Not only will the Krystal Square Off finals be televised on ESPN2 on October 28 at 4pm eastern, 1pm Pacific, it will be followed by reruns of the two other televised contests: The Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating contest finals and the Johnsonville Bratwurst contest. The Krystal Square Off finals will be rerun on Oct 29 on ESPN at 3pm eastern, noon Pacific.

I was afraid that the Krystal Square Off program would be preceded by a game that would run long and eat into the broadcast time, but a college football scoreboard show is scheduled before, so if the noon football game runs long, the scoreboard show will be truncated and the Krystal Square Off should start as scheduled.

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“Eat This Book” by Ryan Nerz has been translated into a Japanese version by Basilico. The English translation of the Japanese title is “Banquet of Gluttony”

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