Bull’s-eye.
That’s the idea behind “Top Shot,” History Channel’s hit series about marksmen who take on challenges in a 12-week elimination match. This season kicks off at 8 p.m. Tuesday, and Alex Charvat of Conifer is one of the 16 sharpshooters in the game.
Charvat is an engineer, a dad and a darn good shot. He can’t reveal how he does in the shoot-off, but it sounds like it worked out OK.
This first week is described online: “A shoot-off using one of the most powerful handguns in history; a race where each team must carry a pole weighing over 200 pounds between 8-foot-tall firing platforms. An elimination challenge inspired by the stagecoaches of the old West.”
Charvat says the show involved “virtually anything you can think of that involved marksmanship” — handguns, rifles, arrows, tomahawks, bazookas. One target is 500 yards away, and I don’t know what they’re using to go that far or what they’re aiming for.
“It was a pretty good time,” Charvat says of the trip to California for the series. “It was something I never expected to do in my lifetime. Some things I could never do logically or even legally. And I met a great group of people.”
Sounds like “The Bachelorette” with ammo.
“I don’t watch that,” says Charvat. “If I had to guess, I think this is more like ‘Survivor.’ “
Speidi.
“If you don’t know who they are, first of all, congratulations,” said Anderson Cooper on CNN’s “AC360” Wednesday night as he inducted Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt onto his RidicuList. He also called the duo “demon spawn” from the MTV show “The Hills” with no “intrinsic worth.”
Montag is from Crested Butte, so the ski hamlet and the rest of Colorado watched her appear on TV and then undergo multiple plastic surgeries. She and Pratt made money by pretending to be famous — which they aren’t anymore. They are broke and living with Pratt’s parents. “It’s like what 70-year-olds do,” explains Pratt. “We’re reading a lot of books and eating a lot of tacos and burritos.”
Burp!Denver’s Jack Barreca and Michael Ballard of Beverage Resources International debut their line of alcoholic drinks Jakk’d at Full Throttle Saloon at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, which starts Monday. Thirsty bikers can fill up on “flavored booze in a bottle” (now there’s a slogan), including Lunatic Lemon, Raging Orange and Punched Out Pomegranate Berry. The drinks will be available in Denver soon. They promise, “Jakk’d will get you there quicker and keep you there longer.”
City spirit.
Chris Daniels is back at it with the Kings tonight at Lannie’s Clocktower, and Will Durst will be talking politics there Saturday . . . Arnold Schwarzenegger‘s divorce lawyer is Robert Kaufman — but he’s not the same guy as Denver top-gun divorce lawyer Robert Kaufman . . . Sez who: “Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I’m used to having a few guns around to protect me.” Loretta Lynn
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