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
Willow Springs International Motorsports Park 1969 Disney film The Love Bug, under the guise of "Jackrabbit Springs". The track was featured in the Japanese Best Motoring International "American Touge" video special. The track is in the 1985 Christopher Cross music video "Every Turn of the World" The movie "Fast Girl" (2008) was filmed and based at Willow Springs Raceway. On 3 February 2013 the track featured on the British BBC program Top Gear, while Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May were being chased by aeroplanes. Willow Springs International Motorsports Park was the venue of a photoshoot session by Playboy for its Playmate pictorial and