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
Ratcliffe Culey Ratcliffe Culey Ratcliffe Culey is a village in Leicestershire, near the county boundary with Warwickshire. It is part of the civil parish of Witherley. The village has the Church of England parish church of All Saints, a pub called The Gate public house, a post office and a greyhound kennels. The toponym "Ratcliffe" is derived from Old English, referring to the local red clay and the fact that it is on high land. Culey is the name of a former lord of the manor. In June 1646 the town of Ratcliffe Culey submitted claims to the Warwickshire county committee for