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The " Famous Amos" Cookie Tale began when the talent agent began using his bite-sized cookies as calling cards. Amos launched the Famous Amos Cookie Company in 1975 with a Sunset Boulevard storefront in Hollywood.
The Business grew and in 1985, Famous Amos cookies was a $10 million business.
While he left the brand after it changed hands several times between 1985 and 1998, he never lost his entrepreneurial zeal or passion for baking and promoting. His most recent venture is Long Island-based Uncle Wally's Cookie Company, which specializes in muffins, and in a deal with Famous Amos brand's new parent, Keebler Company, he is once again promoting his namesake brand.
Amos devotes a great deal of time and passion for literacy causes, serving as national spokesman for the Literacy Volunteers of America and acting as a board member for the National Center for Family Literacy and Communities in Schools.
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Eleanor Clift is a contributing editor for Newsweek magazine. She reports on the White House, presidential politics, and a variety of national issues. Her column, "Capitol Letter," is posted each week on Newsweek.com and MSNBC.com. Clift is a regular panelist on the nationally syndicated show, The McLaughlin Group. Clift's latest book, "Two Weeks of Life," tells the parallel stories of her husband's death at home with hospice alongside the national debate over the right to die of a young brain-damaged woman named Terri Schiavo (Basic Books 2008.) Clift is also the author of "Founding Sisters and the 19th Amendment" (Wiley 2003) which tells the story of the long struggle for women to gain the right to vote. The book accompanied the HBO movie, "Iron Jawed Angels," starring Hillary Swank and Anjelica Houston.
John Stossel joined the ABC NEWS newsmagazine 20/20 in 1981 and began doing one-hour primetime specials in 1994. The specials, which have consistently rated among the top news programs when broadcast, have earned Stossel uncommon praise: "The most consistently thought-provoking TV reporter of our time", said the Dallas Morning News.
In a new segment for 20/20 called "Give Me a Break," Stossel has taken skeptical looks at people who want to censor cartoons, regulate flagpoles and have Congress rule on what prices are "fair." Stossel has received 19 Emmy Awards.
He has been honored five times for excellence in consumer reporting by the National Press Club. Among his other awards are the George Polk Award for Outstanding Local Reporting and the George Foster Peabody Award.
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