The Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest on ESPN didn’t hit an all-time low in TV ratings this year, but the annual July 4 special was unable to crack one million total viewers.
Saturday’s socially distanced version of the Coney Island staple averaged 966,000 viewers, which is the lowest draw for an initial airing of the contest since 2005. Back then, the niche “sport” received 860,000 viewers.
At the time, the new-to-tv contest was in its cultural infancy, and was dominated by Japanese eater Takeru Kobayashi. It is now much more mainstream.
Also Read: Wrong Again, President Trump: NASCAR Races Are Not Getting Their 'Lowest Ratings Ever'
This year, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the event was held indoors with plexiglass partitions between the “athletes” and their gross work stations. Travel restrictions narrowed the field of competitors to only five men and five women. Americans Joey Chestnut and Miki Sudo won — again.
Saturday’s socially distanced version of the Coney Island staple averaged 966,000 viewers, which is the lowest draw for an initial airing of the contest since 2005. Back then, the niche “sport” received 860,000 viewers.
At the time, the new-to-tv contest was in its cultural infancy, and was dominated by Japanese eater Takeru Kobayashi. It is now much more mainstream.
Also Read: Wrong Again, President Trump: NASCAR Races Are Not Getting Their 'Lowest Ratings Ever'
This year, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the event was held indoors with plexiglass partitions between the “athletes” and their gross work stations. Travel restrictions narrowed the field of competitors to only five men and five women. Americans Joey Chestnut and Miki Sudo won — again.
- 7/7/2020
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
Henry Jaglom makes movies about women for women. Certain kinds of women. Women who suffer from "Eating" issues and have "Babyfever" and enjoy "Going Shopping." Women who gather by the pool and drink cocktails and talk talk talk, baring their most intimate thoughts and feelings to each other and to us while his camera, listening in, pans their faces, zooming in and out.
In the latest addition to his 18-title oeuvre, the writer-director-usually editor (though not this time)-independent distributor profiles a familiar femme: the Midwestern ingénue who arrives in Los Angeles, according to Hollywood mythology, on a Greyhound bus and hangs out at sidewalk cafes hoping to get discovered, like, legend (inaccurately) has it, Lana Turner at the Schwab's soda counter.
That's the rough sketch of 2006's "Hollywood Dreams," entwined with a tragic love story. "Queen of the Lot," Jaglom says, is "a further exploration of themes" and "an...
In the latest addition to his 18-title oeuvre, the writer-director-usually editor (though not this time)-independent distributor profiles a familiar femme: the Midwestern ingénue who arrives in Los Angeles, according to Hollywood mythology, on a Greyhound bus and hangs out at sidewalk cafes hoping to get discovered, like, legend (inaccurately) has it, Lana Turner at the Schwab's soda counter.
That's the rough sketch of 2006's "Hollywood Dreams," entwined with a tragic love story. "Queen of the Lot," Jaglom says, is "a further exploration of themes" and "an...
- 11/19/2010
- Moving Pictures Magazine
I mentioned that I can no longer eat or drink. A reader wrote: "That sounds so sad. Do you miss it?" Not so much really. Not anymore. Understand that I was never told that after surgery I might lose the ability to eat, drink and speak. Eating and drinking were not mentioned, and it was said that after surgery I might actually be able to go back to work on television.
Success in such surgery is not unheard of. It didn't happen that way. The second surgery was also intended to restore my speaking ability. It seemed to hold together for awhile, but then, in surgeon-speak, also "fell apart."
A third surgery was attempted, using a different approach. It seemed to work, and in a mirror I saw myself looking familiar again. But after a little more than a week, that surgery failed, too. Blood vessels intended to attach the transplanted tissue lost function,...
Success in such surgery is not unheard of. It didn't happen that way. The second surgery was also intended to restore my speaking ability. It seemed to hold together for awhile, but then, in surgeon-speak, also "fell apart."
A third surgery was attempted, using a different approach. It seemed to work, and in a mirror I saw myself looking familiar again. But after a little more than a week, that surgery failed, too. Blood vessels intended to attach the transplanted tissue lost function,...
- 1/9/2010
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
Henry Jaglom, the iconic writer/director whose films include: Eating, Someone To Love, New Years Day, Hollywood Dreams, and most recently Irene in Time, was kind enough to sit down with me and talk about his life, his art and his new play Just 45 Minutes From Broadway. Joining us was his muse, and very talented actress, Tanna Frederick who stars in Irene in Time, Hollywood Dreams and currently in Henry's new play. I can't think of anyone who makes films like Henry does. He is an artist in the true sense of the word. His lead characters are often women, and I'm not talking Lara Croft (Tomb Raider), but real women who share their deepest thoughts and feelings. Henry told me he gets his understanding of women from his mother. She allowed him to explore...
- 10/31/2009
- by Irene Rubaum-Keller
- Huffington Post
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