To mark the premiere on Tuesday 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.<br />
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Conti, 33, donned a diving mask and snorkel on Tuesday inside the lobby of the Manhattan movie theater that will show the film and lowered himself into a "popcorn sarcophagus," a wooden, windowed structure, to begin munching.<br />
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He vowed to eat his way through the 50 cubic feet of salted, buttered popcorn in about eight hours, in time for the movie’s premiere on Tuesday evening.<br />
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For the full story (and pictures) see <a href="http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=5038171&section=news"><strong>Reuters</strong></a>.<br />
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UPDATE: The last report we can find is that Crazy Legs made it to his chest.
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