Played by 26-year-old British newcomer Ben Barnes as a kind of Mediterranean, pretty-boy Hamlet, the prince escapes a plot by his uncle King Miraz (Sergio Castellitto) -- who has usurped his throne -- and falls in with a rag-tag band of talking badgers, valiant mice, dwarves, minotaurs, griffins and centaurs.

CNN: Review: A glowing 'Prince Caspian'

Kent Caperton, principal of the Ben Barnes Group, said in an interview that his firm was hired in July 2010 on Mr. Armstrong's behalf for a lobbying effort aimed, in part, at raising concerns about Jeff Novitzky, a Food and Drug Administration special agent who was leading the investigation into Mr. Armstrong's U.S. Postal Service cycling team.

WSJ: Armstrong Hired Lobbyist to Raise Concerns About Investigator

According to the Dallas Morning News, on September 8th, a former speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, Ben Barnes, was about to testify in a lawsuit that Sidney Adger, a close friend of Mr Bush's father and a prominent Houston oil-man, approached Mr Barnes in 1968, seeking help to get the younger Mr Bush a spot in the National Guard.

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