Gino

Born and raised on the tough streets of New York City, Gino seems average on the surface, if just a bit too into the growing disco scene. Let him open his mouth, however, and you'll regret it. All he ever wants to talk about is food, whether it's rambling about his food preferences, theorizing his next meal, or worrying about his weight. Inside, he doesn't have the brain space to think about much else and desires little else; even sex makes him yawn.

But underneath these tendencies that people often find annoying is a man tortured, even in his sleep, by two competing voices. One says that he needs to be thinner. The other says to order a double cheeseburger with french-fried potatoes, a vanilla malt, and maybe some apple pie afterward before he dies in a freak accident and can never eat food again. For now, he's mostly in denial that his relationship with food is anything but normal. But some days he desperately craves a single hour of silence in his mind.

Perhaps a holiday in L.A. will reinvent himself. After all, they say the disco clubs are great... and so are the restaurants... But the clubs! The clubs! Music! Girls! What good are restaurants, anyway, when his last job at one blacklisted him for nibbling off their chicken tender supply? The chance to show off his physique will surely be the perfect motivator to breakup with carbs and be a healthier Gino.