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• Tiger Woods makes good money playing golf, but not anywhere near what he receives from Nike, Gillette, and Gatorade for endorsing their products. In 2007, Woods’ golf earnings were about $12 million, while his earnings as a spokesman were closer to $100 million.

With heartbreak I have learned to cry in my beer Still with each new season they’ll get my cheer Every play gives me hope and for some I will die I’ll even accept a cheese head if a winner it’ll buy

• At age four, Jane Withers had her own Saturday morning children’s radio program on an Atlanta station, “Dixie’s Dainty Dewdrop.” By age 12, she was starring opposite fellow child star Shirley Temple in the 1934 film Bright Eyes. Thirty-eight more films followed over the next 12 years. At age 15, she ranked sixth on the list of top ten boxoffice attractions. Yet she is probably best known as Josephine, television’s perky lady plumber dressed in white overalls touting the benefits of stain-fighting Comet cleanser. At age 76, she was still hard at work, doing voices in Disney’s animated films.

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• Some people might remember Brooke Shields more for her many endorsements than for her work in movies and television. Over the years, this Princeton graduate has been the spokeswoman for Calvin Klein, Ford, Tupperware, Colgate, Volkswagen, Ivory, and a pharmaceutical product that remedies sparse eyelashes. • Although McDonald’s, as we know it, was officially founded in 1948, their spokesman Ronald McDonald didn’t come along until 1963. The first person to portray Ronald was none other than Willard Scott, former weatherman on The Today Show. A study among school-age children indicates that Ronald McDonald is the second most recognized figure in the world. Only Santa Claus is more well-known. • Fantasy Island fans will remember Ricardo Montalban as the suave lord of the manor Mr. Roarke, but Chrysler owners recall him as a pitchman for the Cordoba and its “rich Corinthian leather” upholstery. The Mexico City-born actor made a big switch when he portrayed the wicked title character in The Wrath of Khan, part of the Star Trek movie series.

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