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Sloppy Joe's Bar. In December 1980, [7] manager of Sloppy Joe's Bar Michael Walton read about a Bad Hemingway Contest in which writers parody Hemingway's writing style. As a promotional stunt for Sloppy Joe's Bar, he decided to centre a look-alike contest and other events around Hemingway's birthday on July 21, during a slow, humid season for the bar.
In late 2024, multiple news outlets reported a large rise in the prevalence of look-alike contests across the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland and Australia, as well as later contests in India and Brazil, which were attributed to the initial popularity of a Timothée Chalamet look-alike contest in October that year.
The International Imitation Hemingway Competition, also known as the Bad Hemingway Contest, was an annual writing competition begun in Century City, California.Started in 1977 as a "promotional gag", [1] and held for nearly thirty years, the contest pays mock homage to Ernest Hemingway by encouraging authors to submit a 'really good page of really bad Hemingway' in a Hemingway-esque style.
On Nov. 24, there was a Glen Powell look-alike contest in his hometown of Austin, Texas, which drew hundreds of people. The Top Gun: Maverick star called into the event, at which his mother and ...
At first, it was just a news story that made us all smile: the Dune and Wonka star surprised and delighted his fans by turning up in person to a "Timothée Chalamet lookalike contest" organized by ...
On his 68th birthday, a white-bearded Wisconsin man won the Hemingway Look-Alike Contest, a highlight of Key West’s annual Hemingway Days celebration that ends Sunday. Gerrit Marshall, a retired ...
This festival “consisted of a King Kalākaua beard look–alike contest, a barbershop quartet contest, a relay race, a re–creation of King Kalākaua's coronation, and a Holoku Ball among other events.” [10] Kumu hula Napua Greig (right, in red) and her hālau, Hālau Nā Lei Kaumaka O Uka, backstage at the 2015 Merrie Monarch competition
Po said he only planned to draw a crowd of a thousand for the look-alike contest, however around 10,000 attendees showed up. He and team spent around $4,000 including labor, wardrobe, a cardboard ...