Posted on 07/20/2014 4:20:06 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Wally Collins of Phoenix triumphed over 130 other entrants, including his son Matt Collins, late Saturday night at Sloppy Joe's Bar. The bar was a favorite of Ernest Hemingway during the 1930s.
A white-bearded Arizona restaurateur has won Key West's annual "Papa" Hemingway Look-Alike Contest on his sixth attempt.
Wally Collins of Phoenix triumphed over 130 other entrants, including his son Matt Collins, late Saturday night at Sloppy Joe's Bar. The bar was a favorite of Ernest Hemingway during the 1930s.
Related: Hemingway Look-Alikes "Run With the Bulls" in Key West Competitors in sportsman's attire paraded before a judging panel of former winners during two preliminary rounds and the finals, trying to prove their resemblance to the real Hemingway.
Other look-alike entrants included celebrity chef Paula Deen's husband, Michael Groover of Savannah, Georgia.
Collins, who also has researched the role concussions may have played in Hemingway's 1961 suicide, said he admired Hemingway's ideals and taste for adventure.
"I didn't have as many wives as he had, and I have a lot more children and grandchildren, but there are a lot of things that he stood for that I really like," Collins said.
The contest is a highlight of the annual Hemingway Days celebration honoring the Nobel Prize-winning author who lived and wrote in Key West from 1931 until late 1939. Hemingway's home in the city, where he wrote the novels "To Have and Have Not" and "For Whom the Bell Tolls," is now a museum.
British Scholar Wins Hemingway Writing Competition The festival also includes a short story competition directed by Ernest's granddaughter, Lorian Hemingway, and a spoof on the running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain. It ends Sunday with an arm wrestling contest at Sloppy Joe's
Looks like Burl Ives to me.
Actually more like an old football player.
Name escapes me...
"A little bit of beer let me down....."
This contest is sexist, ageist, and racist. . . And specieist. . . It wasn’t open to women, young men, blacks, Asians, or animals! It was also discriminatory against Bronze statues, or that bust would have won! — Liberal thinking complainer who didn’t enter, but who’s pissed off that she didn’t win.
It’s also an example of micro-aggressive discrimination against illiterate people who have no idea who Ernest Hemingway was!
You’re right, he looks far too kindly, especially in the eyes.
Ernest Hemingway had mean looking hooded eyes.
The genuine article, that.
The original “most interesting man in the world”.
Genuine, invaluable and absolutely one of a kind.
I don’t think I’d enter a contest like that — I hate to lose, and if I did lose, I’d probably shoot myself.
Where’s Cate Blanchett?
And he loved cats ... a real man in full.
Ha!
I have a couple myself.
There are a couple great scenes in the posthumous Islands in the Stream featuring Hem’s felines, one with a fearsome tom up in a tree, which Thomas Hudson notices and is exquistely described...and the other of the great loyal tom named Boise that has been trained to retrieve Hudson’s prescription pill (heart medicine? I can’t recall at the moment) from under the bed...”Bring the medicine Boy...bring the medicine to Papa...”
He also loved his women and his drink, ennobling qualities as well.
Indeed
The curators of his home in Key West spend half their funding on vet care and food for the Hemingway cat relatives. IIRC, they said there are around 30 cats roaming the property.
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