Pocahontas (1995 film) character flowered into the idea of a grandmotherly spiritual adviser to Pocahontas. Because of Katzenberg's opposition to having Grandmother Willow in the story, Joe Grant assisted fellow veteran story artist Burny Mattinson with coming up tree puns such as "My bark is worse than my bite", "The roots of all problems", and "They're barking up the wrong tree." Mattinson reluctantly added them to his pitch for the next morning, and during the story meeting, he exclaimed, "Everybody loved it! All of a sudden: 'Oh, I want her in!' 'Let's build her part bigger!'" In September 1992, Disney began casting actors
Disappearance of Joanne Ratcliffe and Kirste Gordon Disappearance of Joanne Ratcliffe and Kirste Gordon Joanne Ratcliffe (born 1962) and Kirste Gordon (born 1969) were two Australian girls who went missing while attending an Australian rules football match at the Adelaide Oval on 25 August 1973. Ratcliffe and Gordon's disappearance, and presumed abduction and murder, became one of South Australia's best known crimes. The presumed murders are sometimes thought to be related to the disappearance of the Beaumont children in 1966. The case is sometimes called in the media, The Adelaide Oval Abductions. Kirste Gordon had been at the football in the care of her maternal grandmother while