Yahoo! News - Competitive eater sets popcorn challenge

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To mark the premiere of a film about his life as a competitive eater, Crazy Legs Conti is trying to eat his way out of a telephone booth-size structure filled with popcorn.

Conti, 33, donned a diving mask and snorkel on Tuesday inside the lobby of the Manhattan cinema that will show the film and lowered himself into a "popcorn sarcophagus," a wooden, windowed structure, to begin munching.

He vowed to eat his way through the 50 cubic feet (1.4 cubic metres) of salted, buttered popcorn in about eight hours, in time for the movie's premiere on Tuesday evening.

Conti, who runs marathons and is built like a wrestler, is no neophyte to nibbling, having won the world oyster-eating championship. His dream is to defeat Japan's Takeru Kobayashi in the Fourth of July hot dog eating contest on New York's Coney Island, regarded as the Super Bowl of competitive eating.

"This guy is completely genuine. He is taking every action he needs to make his dream a reality," the film's director, Chris Kenneally, said of Conti, who is from Massachusetts.

The documentary, "Crazy Legs Conti: Zen and the Art of Competitive Eating," is part of the Tribeca Film Festival






Yahoo! News - Competitive eater sets popcorn challenge