The name, she says, refers to “when you get so drunk that the next day you wake up in bed with some awful guy and you’d rather chew your arm off than wake them up.” “It’s been interesting remembering some things.” CourtesyĪn NYU grad and briefly an apprentice broker on Wall Street, Lovell, a Westchester native, saved up tips from bartending at the Village Idiot to open her first Coyote Ugly in 1993. Who the f - - k would do that?” Truth is crazier than fiction Liliana Lovell, the owner of Coyote Ugly, has been writing stories for a project she can’t yet discuss. “I will never see it more than once because the Lil character bought the bar a round when the health department comes in,” said the self-described “hardass” Lovell, 52. ‘Hell no H2O.’ I still remember some of the lines.” ©Touchstone Pictures/Courtesy Everett “She’s never seen it before and had such joy the next day quoting all of the lines. “She called me and said, ‘Oh I couldn’t sleep so I found one of your movies in the middle of the night,’” Bello said. Maria Bello said her fiancée, Michelin-star chef Dominique Crenn, just saw “Coyote Ugly” for the first time in July. “I watched it once in my whole life,” Liliana Lovell told The Post of the film, loosely based on the real-life Coyote Ugly Saloon at First Avenue and 10th Street, which has grown into an international franchise of bars with 29 locations as far as Kyrgyzstan.Īs far as similarities go, she said, the booze and babes are about it. Just don’t tell that to the owner of the wild joint that spawned it all. I didn’t know how gigantic it would be and that it would turn into this cult classic.” “I really think this movie travels generationally. “I get, ‘You’re the owner from ‘Coyote Ugly’!” Bello, 53, told The Post. Though she has dozens of film and TV credits under her belt, actress Maria Bello said she’s most often stopped by “Coyote” fans, both men and women, of all ages. “I look at the screen, though, and ask, ‘Who is that girl?’ Because she’s so much wiser and … wider. “It’s so funny, I was in the movie so briefly, yet still feel very connected to its legacy,” supermodel Tyra Banks, 46, who had a cameo as bartender Zöe, told The Post. The Post’s review declared it “soulless,” while the Village Voice critic said he’d “rather eat ball bearings.”ĭespite being skewered by critics, the cult classic grossed $113 million and is that type of movie fans watch again and again, doing shots and quoting lines like “Hell no H2O!” The cheesy “small-town girl with big-city dreams” trope was not a hit with big-screen pundits. Released 20 years ago Tuesday, the movie starred Piper Perabo as Violet, an aspiring songwriter from New Jersey who winds up bartending at the raunchy and rowdy NYC saloon owned by Lil (played by Maria Bello) and helmed by a trio of bartender babes (Tyra Banks, Bridget Moynahan and Izabella Miko). It gave haters a massive hangover - but to die-hard fans, “ Coyote Ugly” has aged like a fine whiskey. Michael Cera, TV's strangest son, turns 33 today 'B Positive' star Linda Lavin: 'Alice' was the first blue-collar single mom on TV Yes, really: Why Madonna is better than The BeatlesĬan you spot the human legend behind E.T.'s iconic alien eyes?
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