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The following data about Joey Chestnut comprise a row in the factoids matrix in the current issue of Sports Illustrated (page 37):
Person I’d most like to meet: Bill Clinton
Nickname as a kid: Puff (the Magic Dragon)
Most scared I’ve ever been: Being chased by a pack of wild dogs at age 6
Song that reminds me of summer: Take Me Out to the Ballgame
Book I’m currently reading: Eat This Book (Ryan Nerz)
Superhero I’m most like: Wolverine
(Perhaps Joey’s scary experience has resulted in a hatred of “dogs” which he displays at Nathan’s contests)
Tomoko Miyake (三宅智å), the fourth place finisher in April’s “gluttonous queen” contest has launched a personal website at miyaketomoko.com , making her the first Japanese female competitive eater with a home page. The website lists Tomoko’s birth year as 1958 (the last two digits should probably be reversed)
NPR.org has an article and audio from Jason Fagone’s interview Saturday morning.
nbc30 has an article, gallery and video of Pat Bertoletti at Friday’s goldenpalace.net ice cream contest. The article confuses pounds with gallons.
ESPN displayed a very brief clip of Pat Bertoletti (1 second at most) at the goldenpalace.net ice cream eating contest was shown on the Monday night / Tuesday morning Sportcenter. There might have been a longer video on an earlier edition of sportscenter.
Pat Bertoletti was also named athlete of the week by a Saint Louis Post Dispatch columnist.
Video from Jason Fagone’s interview on CNN Tuesday morning promoting “Horsmen of the Esophagus” is available at http://www.cnn.com/video/ (Bottom of page under Best of TV)
A Nathan’s qualifier will be held on June 22 in West Chester, PA (suburban Philadelphia). The qualifier will be televised on the shopping channel QVC, making it the first qualifier broadcast nationwide. It will be interesting to see what merchandise is sold during this appearance.
IFOCE has announced two new websites, competitiveeatingevents.com and competitiveeating.net in conjunction with the new qualifier. The first website has travel information for IFOCE contests. competitiveeating.net has a list of the websites of some IFOCE members in which the home pages of Sonya Thomas, Erik Denmark, Andrew Lane and Brian Seiken along with the Whaler’s fan blog for Tim Janus are not found. The list claims to only include “family friendly” websites which might be the reason why the last two of those web sites were omitted, but I have never seen anything on the first three home pages that was not G-rated. Brian Subich’s home page appears despite not having been updated since 2005 when I last viewed it.
Philly.com reports that “Swallow Your Pride”, a documentary about Bill “El Wingador” Simmons winning his fifth Wing Bowl crown in Wing Bowl 13, will be screened at the First Glance Film Festival in Philadelphia on Sunday night. Tickets are $10. Porn star/ former California gubernatorial candidate Mary Carey stars in a movie to be screened Saturday night.
Jason Fagone will appear on NPR’s Weekend Edition – Saturday tomorrow. He expects his segment will start at 8:40 am. A podcast should be available after the broadcast.
Loren Yarbrough has noticed that Joey Chestnut’s home page located at futureofeating.com has opened with a lot of pictures from Wing Bowl 14.
Fans waiting for a competitive eating movie might not need to wait for the Josh Heald and Wing Bowl projects to hit the multiplexes. The Dallas Morning News reports that “Taxidermia”, a Hungarian movie directed by György Pálfi in which one of the protagonists is a competitive eater was screened at the Cannes Film Festival last Thursday. It appears unlikely that the IFOCE will endorse this movie based on this description at msn. Pictures and trailers for the movie (in French and Hungarian) are available.
A clip of the hot dog contest between “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti and Boyd Bulot from “Ripley’s Believe It Or Not” is available at:
The clip from Ripley’s Believe It Or Not of the steak contest at the Big Texan steakhouse in which Rich LeFevre almost finished two 72 ounce steaks and Carlene sets a women’s record is available at:
Hall Hunt googled Josh Heald, who was listed as a screenwriter who ate 11 hot dogs in the Las Vegas qualfier in the IFOCE report, and found he had written a movie about competitive eating for Disney called “All You Can Eat.” The movie is supposed to come out later this year, but apparently it has not been cast yet.
Articles about studio pickup and director hiring for the movie.
(Thanks Loren Yarbrough) A Japanese competitive eating website has been set up at http://www.d2.dion.ne.jp/~193cm/ which has galleries of Nobuyuki “The Giant” Shirota at the 2004 Nathan’s finals and Tokyo qualifier.
The AICE news page lists the expected contestants for the United Pickle contest that will be held May 24 at the Carnegie Deli. According to that roster, “Krazy” Kevin Lipsitz will attempt to reclaim the pickle crown that he won in 2000. Joe Menchetti has also apparently decided that the contest is sufficiently lucrative to enter.
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Brian Seiken has uploaded his tenth video focusing on the Eats of Strength filming session. He does not have an official interviewee, but Crazy Legs Conti, Pat Bertoletti, Tim Janus and Don Lerman all make cameo appearances.
The 11th Hour, a sketch comedy group, has uploaded a 6 minute “mockumentary” about a female competitive eater to youtube at http://youtube.com/watch?v=CZ2oZgtbpAg The video includes footage of last year’s goldenpalace.com grilled cheese finals at Venice Beach and Sonya Thomas and other IFOCE members make cameos.
Liz attended the Feats of Strength recording session on Saturday and has a report and gallery from that event. Tim “Eater X” Janus (sporting a new haircut), Crazy Legs Conti and “Hungry” Charles Hardy all broke the records they attempted. Pat Bertoletti, Don Lerman, Brian Seiken, Allen Goldstein and Tim’s friend Joe (who looks like Joey Chestnut) attended as spectators.
Kevin Carr interviews Ryan Nerz at http://www.7mpictures.com/inside/mp3files/profile_ryannerz.mp3 (about 40 minutes)
Michael Smerconish interviews Jason Fagone at http://podcast.thebigtalker1210.com/wpht/9582.mp3 (about 17 minutes)
You Tube has a 9 minute video of the final contest of the “Gluttonous Queen” program broadcast last month at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAm8AJ-RMfk
Natsuko “The Gal” Sone claimed the crown by eating more bowls of spicy noodles than the other two finalists: Iwata and “The Nurse.”
As of May 12, 12:49 pm, two copies of “The Doughnut Dropout”, the book that inspired the eating career of Jed Donahue, are available on ebay (at prices of $7.00 and $4.85)
The New York Times has a column about the trend towards extremism in gastronomic literature which mentions both “Eat This Book” and “Horsemen of the Esophagus” prominently.
The Lefevres’ attempts to eat the famous 72 ounce steak at the Big Texan steakhouse recorded by Ripley’s Believe it or Not in 2000 will be rerun on the SciFi Channel at 4 pm (eastern) Friday This might be the first appearance of competitive eating on national cable TV. The steak contest segment will probably occur at the end of the show near 5pm.
The Genessee (Michigan) board of commissioners decided to use $150 of county funds to sponsor a hot dog eating contest at Capital Coney Island in Flint Township despite Commissioner Rose Bogardus’ opinion that the contest promotes gluttony and eating disorders. The contest will take place on May 20 from 2-6 pm and an entrance fee of $10 will enable competitors to eat as many hot dogs as possible in 15 minutes. Unspecified prizes will be awarded to the best performers. Funds will go towards the Consortium on Child Abuse and Neglect. Hopefully Sharon Scholten will not show up or there might not be any money left for charity after hot dog expenses have been deducted.
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