My Life as a Blog: Sonya Thomas is The Black Widow

By Reid Rosefelt
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/blog/item/my_life_as_a_blog_sonya_thomas_is_the_black_widow_20100809/
Years ago, I wanted to make a documentary on the 105-pound competitive eater Sonya Thomas, a.k.a “The Black Widow.” Here was a tiny woman who kept beating all these huge men in contest after contest. Of course, the idea of me actually doing a movie about Sonya was preposterous. Who would ever give me the money to do it? And even if somebody did, I didn’t really want to spend a year or two of my life traipsing around to the world’s eating contests. But I felt there was a really good feature there if somebody else would do it.