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TIL John Cleese turned down the role of Cogsworth in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast in order to play Cat R. Waul in Amblimation’s An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

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d8lOK TIL Courtroom drawing as we know it in the United States was born in response to the 1935 media circus over the kidnapping and killing of aviator Charles Lindbergh’s infant son. The American Bar Association put forth a ban on cameras—leaving news outlets to seek alternate means of coverage.
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