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From: dcm@wlbr.UUCP (Dave Miller)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: ads in movies
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Date: Tue, 4-Sep-84 10:36:35 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  4 10:36:35 1984
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(-: Sacrificial offering to the voracious line chomper :*)


>I remember hearing/reading that M&M`s were replaced with Reses` Pieces
>in E.T. because Mars objected. (but perhaps they weren`t willing to
>pay the price?)

The way I heard it was that someone at Mars thought that it might not be
in the company's best interest to be associated with an "alien space 
monster" and refused.  I heard rumors that the person who made the
suggestion all but disappeared from the company's hierarchy.

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                            David C Miller
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