Who was best known for negotiating the agreement that placed a peanut butter candy manufactured by The Hershey Company in with Steven Spielberg's "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"?
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John H. Dowd John H. Dowd (1922–2004) was a Hershey Chocolate Company brand manager, best known for negotiating the agreement that placed Reese's Pieces to tie in with Steven Spielberg's "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial".
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Reese's Pieces Reese's Pieces are a peanut butter candy manufactured by The Hershey Company solely for the North American market; they are oblate spheroid in shape and covered in candy shells that are colored yellow, orange, or brown. They can be purchased in plastic packets, cardboard boxes, or cup-shaped travel containers. The candy was introduced in 1977, and introduced to Canada in 1980. The then relatively new product became very popular with the 1982 release of "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial", in which the candy is featured.
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J. Willard Hershey J Willard Hershey (6 February 1876, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania – 27 September 1943) was an American chemist who was best known for his work on synthetic diamond production. There is, however, some doubt whether his success was real, or whether co-workers introduced the diamonds without his knowledge. He also studied the effects of rare gases such as helium on animal life.
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Trade Agreements Act of 1979 The Trade Agreements Act of 1979 (TAA), Pub.L. 96–39 , 93 Stat. 144 , enacted  26, 1979 , codified at (), is an Act of Congress that governs trade agreements negotiated between the United States and other countries under the Trade Act of 1974. It provided the implementing legislation for the Tokyo Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
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Stephen J. Friedman (producer) Stephen Jay Friedman (March 15, 1937 – October 4, 1996) was an American film producer known for "The Last Picture Show" (1971) and "The Big Easy" (1988). In 1980 he formed Kings Road Entertainment—named after the West Hollywood street where he lived—, making him one of the first independent film producers to raise substantial film funding through a publicly traded company.
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Sugar side letter The sugar side letter was added to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in last minute negotiations between the Clinton Administration and the Mexican Government before the Congress approved the North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act (P.L. 103-182). It altered NAFTA’s initial sugar provisions by adding one additional factor to the formula to be used to determine how much sugar Mexico could export to the United States through 2008. Mexican access to the U.S. market was initially set to be equal to the amount of its net sugar surplus (sugar production minus sugar consumption), subject to a maximum of 25000 t over the 1995-2001 period and a maximum of 250,000 metric tons in 2001-2008. The side letter changed this definition to add Mexican consumption of high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) to the "net production surplus" definition. This change effectively lowers the amount of sugar that Mexico can sell to the U.S. market.
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Lee Mendelson Lee Mendelson (born March 24, 1933) is an American television producer. He is best known as the executive producer of the many "Peanuts" animated specials.
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Candy Miyuki Miyuki is an amezaiku artist who had performed at Epcot's Japanese Pavilion inside the World Showcase since 1996; with her last performances occurring on November 23, 2013. She creates sculptures on a stick from soft rice dough, a taffy-like product made from corn starch and sugar. She makes animals at the request of guests, in mere seconds; the most popular request is dragon. She starts with a white base and adds color as needed. The candy she works with is heated to 200 degrees to make it malleable, which is one of the reasons so few people have mastered this art. She must work quickly before the sugar cools and hardens.
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Wye River Memorandum The Wye River Memorandum was an agreement negotiated between Israel and the Palestinian Authority at a summit in Wye River, Maryland, U.S., held from 15–23 October 1998. The Memorandum aimed to resume the implementation of the 1995 Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (Oslo II Accord). It was signed in the White House by Benjamin Netanyahu and Yasser Arafat, through negotiations led by U.S. President Bill Clinton, on 23 October 1998. On 17 November 1998 Israel's 120 member parliament, the Knesset, approved the Memorandum by a vote of 75–19. The Memorandum determined that it would enter into force on 2 November 1998, ten days from the date of signature.
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Forrest Mars Sr. Forrest Edward Mars Sr. (March 21, 1904 – July 1, 1999) was an American businessman and the driving force of the Mars candy empire. He is best known for introducing Milky Way (1923) and Mars (1932) chocolate candy bars, and M&M's (1941) chocolate candy, as well as orchestrating the launch of Uncle Ben's Rice. He was the son of candy company Mars, Inc. founder Frank C. Mars and his first wife Ethel G. Mars (née Kissack).
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James Ferris James "Jim" P. Ferris (1932 – March 4, 2016) was an American chemist. He is known for his contributions to the understanding of the origins of life on Earth, specifically by demonstrating a successful mechanism of clay-catalyzed polymerization of RNA, providing further evidence for the RNA World Hypothesis. Additionally, his work in atmospheric photochemistry has illuminated many of the chemical processes which occur in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn's moon, Titan.
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William Kotzwinkle William Kotzwinkle (born November 22, 1943) is an American novelist, children's writer, and screenwriter. He was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. He has won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel for "Doctor Rat" in 1977, and has also won the National Magazine Award for fiction. Kotzwinkle wrote the novelization of the screenplay for "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial".
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Reese's Fast Break Reese's Fast Break (or, in Canada, Hershey Sidekick) is a chocolate bar produced by the Hershey Company. Like Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, another Hershey product, Reese's Fast Break has a milk chocolate coating over a peanut butter filling. However, the Fast Break also has a layer of nougat beneath the peanut butter.
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Walter Sherman Gifford Walter Sherman Gifford (January 10, 1885 – May 7, 1966) was best known as the president of the AT&T Corporation from 1925 to 1948, after which he served as United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1950 to 1953.
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Intergalactic Thanksgiving Intergalactic Thanksgiving, sometimes known as Please Don't Eat The Planet, is a Thanksgiving television special first aired in 1979. It revolves around farmers and aliens who try to get along after a serious accident happens. It has been included on several Nelvana compilations, such as Animated Ink and Nelvanamation.
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Toyetic Toyetic is a term referring to the suitability of a media property, such as a cartoon or movie, for merchandising tie-in lines of licensed toys, games and novelties. The term is attributed to Bernard Loomis, a toy development executive for Kenner Toys, in discussing the opportunities for marketing the film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", telling its producer Steven Spielberg that the movie wasn't "toyetic" enough, leading Loomis towards acquiring the lucrative license for the upcoming "Star Wars" properties.
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Project E Project E was a joint project between the United States and the United Kingdom during the Cold War to provide nuclear weapons to the Royal Air Force (RAF) prior to Britain's own nuclear weapons becoming available. It was expanded to provide similar arrangements for the British Army of the Rhine.
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The Hot Choc-late Soldiers The Hot Choc-late Soldiers, also stylized as "The Hot Chocolate Soldiers", is an American animated short film that was made by Walt Disney Productions for MGM's 1934 film "Hollywood Party", which released on 1 June 1934. It is prefaced in the film by a scene where Mickey Mouse appears at the party, performs a brief Durante impression, and then sits down at a piano, after which "The Hot Choc-late Soldiers" begins to play. Due to stipulations in the contract between Disney and MGM the short was edited out of the film when it was screened on TNT, however MGM was able to negotiate the licenses so that the footage was included in a 1992 VHS release of "Hollywood Party" and for subsequent releases.
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Blum–Byrnes agreement The Blum–Byrnes agreements (in French accord Blum-Byrnes) were a series of commercial French-American agreements, signed May 28, 1946, by the Secretary of State James F. Byrnes and representatives of the French government Léon Blum and, especially, Jean Monnet. The agreements aimed to eradicate France’s debt to America and obtain new credit in exchange for opening France’s markets to American products, especially film productions.
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Charlene Barshefsky Charlene Barshefsky (born August 11, 1950) served as United States Trade Representative, the country's top trade negotiator, from 1997 to 2001. She was the Deputy U.S. Trade Representative from 1993 to 1997. She is a partner at the law firm of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr. She is also an advisor at Moelis & Company.
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (video game) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (also referred to simply as E.T.) is a 1982 adventure video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. for the Atari 2600 video game console. It is based on the film of the same name, and was designed by Howard Scott Warshaw. The objective of the game is to guide the eponymous character through various screens in a cubic world to collect three pieces of an interplanetary telephone that will allow him to contact his home planet.
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Carole E. Handler Carole Enid Handler is an American lawyer who specializes in intellectual property litigation in the areas of trademark, copyright and antitrust laws, particularly those related to entertainment and media industry. She is commonly known as the "lawyer who saved Spiderman."