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4 unusual facts about Reese


Fiction Factory

"(Feels Like) Heaven" was used in a 2009 television advertisement for Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.

Peanut butter cup

The most popular brand of peanut butter cup is the Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (sold as Reese in Canada), now a Hershey brand.

Reese's College All-Star Game

The Reese's College All-Star Game, founded by the NABC, is a men's college basketball game showcasing 20 of the best senior players in the NCAA Division I.

Reese's Puffs

Reese's Puffs (formerly Reese's Peanut Butter Puffs) is a breakfast cereal manufactured by General Mills.


An Unkindness of Ravens

In 2000, a film adaptation was made directed by J. Nathaniel Berke and starring Sean Thibodeau as Simon Reese.

Battle of the Damned

There, he is introduced to the survivors including group leader Duke (David Field), Reese (Matt Doran), Elvis (Jen Sung), Lynn (Lydia Look), and Anna (Oda Maria).

Big Reese

The song "Ride", personally chosen by director John Singleton and Music Supervisor Paul Stewart, was performed and produced by Big Reese.

Booker Reese

Booker Reese (born September 20, 1959) is a former American Football defensive end who played four seasons for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Los Angeles Rams from 1982 to 1985 in the National Football League.

Reese only lasted two seasons with the Bucs before being traded to the Rams for a 12th round draft pick in 1984.

Boris Schapiro

They conferred with Alan Truscott, the The New York Times bridge editor, and agreed they would all observe Reese–Schapiro and record how many fingers were visible when each held his cards in each hand.

Cavendish Beach Music Festival

In 2012 the festival included major acts Rik Reese & Neon Highway, Dierks Bentley, Alabama, and Rascal Flatts.

Major acts in 2010 included Rik Reese & Neon Highway, Keith Urban, Little Big Town, Taylor Swift, and Lady Antebellum.

Charley Reese

In 1999, when C-SPAN viewers were asked to vote for their favorite columnist, Reese finished in first place.

Christopher Makins, 2nd Baron Sherfield

In 1975, he married American photographer, writer, and illustrator Wendy Whitney Cortesi, daughter of John Sargent Whitney of Evergreen, Colorado and jewelry designer Minna Reese Marston.

Curtis Turner

Turner's 1967 Daytona 500 car designed by Smokey Yunick, seen to the right, was the inspiration for the car driven by the Talladega Nights character Reese Bobby.

Damien Dragonetti

In 1996, Dragonetti met with producer/songwriter Bobby Reese, also from Pascagoula, who is credited with writing the song "Everlasting Love" for R&B act Tony Terry along with Terry Antonio Meguel.

Denmark Township, Michigan

Vassar is a few miles southeast on M-15; Reese is a few miles to the north by county roads; I-75 is seven miles west on M-46, and Saginaw is just west of I-75; and Bay City is about 15 miles northwest on M-15.

Frank Proffitt

Frank was born in Laurel Bloomery, Tennessee and was raised in the Reese area of Watauga County, North Carolina where he worked in a variety of jobs and lived on a farm with his wife and six children.

Gustave Reese

Reese is known mainly for his work on medieval and Renaissance music, particularly with his two publications Music in the Middle Ages (1940) and Music in the Renaissance (1954); these two books remain the standard reference works for these two eras, with complete and precise bibliographical material, allowing for almost every piece of music mentioned to be traced back to a primary source.

Hell-Rider

The latter starred a rough but basically goodhearted biker gang that Reese had encountered, consisting of leader Animal; Afro-haired Deke; weaselly Slinker; tall, blond Curly; and blond biker-babe Ruby.

Jimmie Reese

In the film Jack Reacher, Tom Cruise in the title role uses the name Jimmie Reese when trying to conceal his identity from a suspiciously, sexually overt local girl, Sandy (Alexia Fast).

Joe Smyth

Alongside stablemate Eder Kurti, Joe Smyth is trained by Paul Reese at the Monster Gym in Cheshunt and is managed by Michael Helliet Management.

John L. Reese

In 2005, Reese co-founded the Rockstar Taste of Chaos with fellow industry executive, producer and entrepreneur Kevin Lyman.

Karen Sortito

An example of one of the first product tie-ins was in the movie E.T. In the story, the stranded alien character, E.T. was lured out of hiding with a trail of Reese’s Pieces.

Kyle Reese

Michael Biehn almost did not get the role of Reese because, at his audition, he spoke in a Southern accent after having just auditioned for a role in a stage production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof earlier that day and couldn't shake the accent, and the producers did not want Reese to seem regionalized.

Lavoy Allen

On April 1, 2011, Allen participated in the 2011 Reese's College All-Star Game held at the Reliant Center in Houston, Texas.

Little Major

First with Schapiro and then with Jeremy Flint, Reese created the bidding system as "an Awful Warning of what might happen if every country playing international championships were to arrive with its own wholly artificial system".

Magdalena: a Musical Adventure

Arthur Kay conducted Irra Petina, Dorothy Sarnoff, John Raitt, Hugo Haas, Gerhard Pechner, A. Garcia, Melva Niles, Henry Reese, Ferdinand Hilt, J. Arthur, Betty Huff, Christine Matsios, Leonard Morganthaler, John Schickling, Lorraine Miller, Gene Curtsinger, Patrick Kirk, Betty Brusher, and Jack Cole (soloists).

Mason Reese

Mason Reese is a former child actor who appeared in numerous television commercials in the 1970s, particularly for Underwood Deviled Ham, Post Raisin Bran, and Dunkin' Donuts' Dunkin' Munchkins-brand "donut holes".

Mayday at 40,000 Feet!

Later, as Flight 602 prepares to push back from Gate 37-A, Chief Pilot Jenson introduces the captain and first officer—and Second Officer Mike Fuller (Don Meredith)—to United States Marshall Sam Reese (Broderick Crawford) who will be travelling on Flight 602 to pick up a prisoner in Salt Lake City and transport the prisoner to Chicago.

Merrill Reese

Reese's current broadcast partner is former Eagles wide receiver Mike Quick, who joined Reese in the booth in 1998.

Aside from Swift and Adderly, Reese has previously been joined in the booth by Jim Barniak (1978–82), Bill Bergey (1982–83, also filled in when Quick had knee surgery during the 2004 preseason), and Stan Walters (1984–97).

Mike Reese

Reese was born in Mount Pleasant Township and graduated from Mount Pleasant Area High School.

Not on Your Love

"Not On Your Love" is a song written by Tony Martin, Troy Martin, and Reese Wilson, and recorded by American country music artist Jeff Carson.

Old Gray Cemetery

At the suggestion of Reese's wife, Henrietta, the cemetery was named after English poet Thomas Gray, author of Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.

Peanut butter cup

The Reese's Peanut Butter Cup is considered the "finest creation" of H. B. Reese"H. B."

Philip Reese Uhler

Philip Reese Uhler (3 June 1835, Baltimore - 21 October 1913) was an American librarian and entomologist who specialised in Heteroptera.

Rachel Reese

Reese shares her family life with English-born former cricketer, Richard Harden.

Ralph Reese

Also during the 1980s, Reese illustrated more than a dozen titles in Bantam Books' Choose Your Own Adventure series.

Reese River

The river is named after John Reese, who explored the area in 1854 as part of the expedition of Colonel Edward Steptoe, and who later served as a guide to Captain James H. Simpson's survey of a military road through central Nevada.

Simmone Jade Mackinnon

Mackinnon is known for her role in the Baywatch spin-off series Baywatch Hawaii, where she played the role of 'Allie Reese' opposite David Hasselhoff.

Skylon Tower

Costing $7 million at the time of its construction, the Skylon Tower was owned by a private partnership called Niagara International Centre, which was financed by the The Hershey Company shareholdings of Charles Richard Reese, former co-owner of the H. B. Reese Candy Company of Hershey, Pennsylvania.

Sydenham Edwards

Edwards was born in 1768 in Usk, Monmouthshire, the son of Lloyd Pittell Edwards, a schoolmaster and organist, and his wife, Mary Reese, who had been married on 26 September 1765 at Llantilio Crossenny Church and where Sydenham was christened in 1768.

Terence Reese

Examples of bridge logic abound in Reese, for instance, a player who overcalls but does not lead his suit is likely to lack one or two key honours; this concept is often called 'the dog that did not bark in the night' (after Sherlock Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle's Silver Blaze).

Thomas J. Reese

Following his resignation, Reese spent a year-long sabbatical at Santa Clara University before being named a fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center in Washington, D.C. The center is scheduled to close on June 30, 2013 due to a lack of Jesuit staff.

Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann

There, he meets a beautiful woman, Claire Cygne (Belinda Bauer), who gives him a safe place to hide and severely wounds one of Reese's men (Tracey Walter).

University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences

Lee Giles, (Ph.D.) David Reese Professor of Information Sciences and Technology, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems, Pennsylvania State University; Fellow of the ACM, IEEE and INNS.

Virgin Produced

The Chief Executive Officer is Jason Felts and Chief Creative Officer is Justin Berfield (who played Reese in American sitcom Malcolm in the Middle).

Winter Passing

When Reese learns that the kitten she rescued from the streets is dying of feline leukemia, she drowns it and buys a bus ticket.


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