Lebedev called on a list of famous backers, submitting character reports written by John Malkovich, Elton John and Hugh Grant begging the court for leniency.
Slash was followed by the other members, while Rose exerted increasingly dictatorial control over a string of replacements, who had to submit to character analyses by the singer's guru.
It would be awkward if parts of Rush like his neck were left over after they combined, so what was I supposed to do?" The Robot Masters featured in some of the previous Mega Man games were the result of design contests held in Japan, in which fans of the series would submit their character ideas to Capcom.
The judge who sentenced Brock Turner, the former Stanford swimmer convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman, said at the sentencing hearing that a positive character reference submitted by Turner's childhood friend "just rings true", according to a newly released court transcript.
"My judgment is based on what I have witnessed," Newman wrote in a character reference submitted on behalf the defence prior to Ururyar's sentencing.
The exhibit featured selected artwork of the character submitted by artists and fans.
The most remarkable thing about the act was not that a comedian, staying in character, submitted a serious request to the FEC, but that he got a majority of the commissioners to agree to anything.
"All fates are 'worse than death,' " he noted in his diary in 1963, and he delighted in submitting his characters to unlikely varieties of doom and dénouement.
Fans could also participate in a promotion called "Tweet Your Maglia Rosa" where they would submit 140-character or fewer Twitter messages describing what the pink jersey means to them.
Australia submitted Rolf de Heer's stirring character portrait Charlie's Country as its entry for best foreign language film, but no such luck.
