Sizzling women wowed the crowd at last week's steamy Coyote Ugly bartender competition.By LISA CHINN
Sizzling women wowed the crowd at last week's steamy Coyote Ugly bartender competition. By LISA CHINN
By LISA CHINN
Date published: 1/18/2004
ASHINGTON--Cigarette smoke hovered heavy like fog inside the packed F Street Sports Bar and Grill last week. But it wasn't the close quarters at the Washington club that had the mostly-male crowd perspiring.
Seventy-seven ladies, dressed in skin-tight jeans and micro-minis, thigh-high boots and spiky stilettos, steamed up the bar like a sauna last Wednesday night.
They wiggled and writhed, shimmied and shook, in hopes of landing the bar-tending job of a lifetime.
But only about 30 would win the chance to work at Washington's new Coyote Ugly Bar & Dance Saloon. The four-story club, which also will feature a rooftop deck, is scheduled to open on Sixth Street in February.
Known for its sexy, tough-talking female bartenders, Coyote Ugly became more widely known, thanks to the 2000 release of the blockbuster film of the same name. Several bars are scattered across the country, including sites in New York, Dallas, Chicago, Boston and Tampa, Fla.
Coyotes, as the sultry lady bartenders are called, have smoking bodies and take-no-prisoners attitudes. And they're known for their fiery antics like dancing on the bar, spraying water into the crowd and twirling alcohol bottles like batons.
The women also blow fire, perform body shots and dance to choreographed routines--whatever it takes to whip the room into a frenzy and drive the men wild.
"These are really strong A-personality girls who can get up on the bar and draw a crowd," said Jennifer Worthington, co-owner of Coyote Ugly Las Vegas and associate producer of the movie.
"These are just cool chicks," she said.
Worthington, who is also owner of the new Coyote Ugly in D.C., flew in to preside over last week's competition. Choreographers from her Las Vegas bar also came to teach Coyote wannabes some signature dance moves.
The hopefuls had less than two hours to nail the boot-stomping, hip-shaking, lasso-twirling routines to "Cowboy" by Kid Rock and "Foxy Lady" by Jimi Hendrix.
"If you can't dance," the teachers told the girls, "just get crazy."
Worthington doled out some more last-minute advice just before the first 10 contestants filed out to face the crowd:
"Have fun out there, smile," she said. "Good luck to everybody."
Date published: 1/18/2004
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