Coyote Ugly

Liliana Lovell's Cabo San Lucas bar started out badly. Then it got worse. Back in 1993, Lovell, known as Lil, had founded the Coyote Ugly Saloon, a rowdy, honky-tonk dive in New York City's East Village. Seven years later her life as a barkeep changed drastically when Coyote Ugly, a movie set in a Hollywood version of her bar, was released. Seizing on the free publicity, Lovell ginned up plans to turn Coyote Ugly into an international chain.

Hey girls and boys, I thought this article was very interesting because almost everyone knows about the movie Coyote Ugly. However, I didn't know that the movie was made after an actual bar. The owner orginally wanted to expand the bar internationally, but that didn't work out too well. People started to copy her bar idea without paying royalties to her. The owner, Lovell, sued all the "counterfeit" bars. She was granted that royalties from other bars be given to her. Years later the bar had expanded beyond control, therefore Lovell had all but eight of the bars shut down. This article relates to our class discussion of the liquor counterfeit's. I thought that it was interesting because after the "brand" was made into a movie, its value soared, making people want to copy the idea.

By Ian Mount

Lauren Barnett