#Coyote ugly song bar dance movie#

The female-led cast - including Piper Perabo - were featured on billboards and posters and the soundtrack went multi-platinum, with the help of LeAnn Rimes and songwriter Diane Warren.

#Coyote ugly song bar dance movie#

Wesley is most annoyed by patrons who come to the bar after seeing the movie and insist on calling her 'Tyra.A 27-year-old Tyra Banks was elated when she landed the role of Zoe, the no-nonsense bartender in “ Coyote Ugly.” Although there weren’t high expectations for the movie, which starred a cast of mostly unknowns who play rowdy dancers at a seedy bar, the movie became a sleeper summer hit for Touchstone Pictures, grossing $60 million domestically on a $45 million budget. She complains about the calls and stupid questions the bar has been fielding since the film opened.įirst, there was the guy who called asking if he needed a reservation to have a shot of tequila, and then there was the one who asked 'Are the girls here as hot as the girls in the movie?' She's throwing back shots of Southern Comfort and raising a Rolling Rock to a fast-paced country song. Next to the bar, off-duty Coyote Dana Wesley, 25, unwinds. It reads: 'A down-home country saloon in the heart of the East Village.'īut he does know what the term 'Coyote Ugly' means: After a long night of hard drinking, 'you wake up in the morning, she's lying on your arm,' and she's so ugly, 'you'd rather chew off your arm than wake her up.' He whips out his Palm Pilot and punches in 'Coyote Ugly' to get a quick description. Punky East Village kids, Wall Streeters, stylish model types and more make for an unexpected mix of drinking buddies.īob Groves, 37, in a gray business suit, admits he probably wouldn't have walked in if not for the publicity. 'These guys would've never come in here before the movie,' says midtown resident and teacher Casey Magee, 28, as a couple of blazer-jeans-and-cell-phone types exit the bar. Regulars and not-so-regulars soak up the smoke-filled scene and enjoy the show. Tucci has makeup artist ambitions, but right now, she's singing along with 'Islands in the Stream.' This performance, which isn't interfering with Tucci's ability to slide Bud after Bud on to the bar, bares little resemblance to the scene in the film where stage-shy Vi finds courage, picks up a microphone and purrs a karaoke 'One Way or Another' to calm a bar brawl. And like Vi, Coyotes tend to have artistic career aspirations. They taunt customers dim enough to order what Lovell calls 'pansy drinks,' a k a martinis or anything that comes in a fancy glass or involves water. Talk to them and watch for a while, and you'll discover some of the movie's points are accurate: Coyotes do grab customers and pour liquor down their throats. This month, Lovell and some of her Coyotes are profiled on the Web site of Maxim. 'The bar did well before this,' Lovell says. And even though the film has raised her business' profile and increased patronage for now, this is no bar rags-to-riches story. Lovell knows it's part and parcel of Hollywood to simultaneously exaggerate and simplify, as anyone who has seen the lavish, roach-free apartments on 'Friends' knows. 'You'd have to have a gun to my head before I'd ever say, 'Free drinks for everyone,' ' Lovell says. Take the scene where Coyote-in-Chief Lil buys the entire bar a round. The film also had other less than authentic moments. 'I don't do that.' If she's feeling like she can't take anymore - which isn't too often, she says - she tosses the shot over her shoulder. 'One of the girls who trained me taught me that,' says Tucci, grasping a double shot of vodka. In the film, the women pretend to slam them, but then spit the liquor into a beer bottle. In the film, and in the bar, customers are constantly buying shots for the Coyotes.

Holly Zoley, 24, who has just come down from the bar, where she joined the Coyotes for a dance, notes, 'The drink a little bit more than the girls in the movie.' His brother Andy, 26, is on his cell phone reporting to his friends in San Francisco that he is indeed at the real Coyote Ugly.

'They haven't set the bar on fire yet,' says John Freeman, 25. Many of tonight's patrons came with Hollywood-inspired ideas.

'I put the first coat of paint on these walls.' 'I have to admit, I enjoy the attention,' he says. And there's Lou, in slightly more formal duds than the leather vest and bandanna he's sporting tonight. There are Joey Fatone and Lance Bass of boy band 'N Sync, hanging with the Coyotes. There's the real Lil, looking like a movie star herself next to Maria Bello, who plays her in the film. Safro is sharing pictures from the 'Coyote Ugly' premiere party with bouncer 'Redneck' Lou Catanese, a Coyote Ugly veteran.