Word: lions
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...back (along with the director-writers Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath) in Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, which is the surest money-getter this year short of an email to Obama supporters. The first film sent four denizens of New York City's Central Park Zoo - Alex the lion (Ben Stiller), Marty the zebra (Chris Rock), Gloria the hippo (Jada Pinkett Smith) and Melman the giraffe (David Schwimmer) - across several seas to an island off Africa. Madagascar was Oz with even more monkeys. It was smart, sitcommy and nicely congested. The sequel is more of the agreeable, strenuous same...
...just lazy? We do what's easy for us. We're evolutionarily wired to behave like that because we're supposed to save our energy for when the lion attacks and we have to run very, very fast. We will conserve our own energy if we can. We're so good that we now have this ridiculous spectacle of people going out specifically to exercise. We never had to do that until recently...
...Wicked Witch of the West.” Few, however, know as much about the man behind the legend, Gregory Maguire. When the fantasy-fiction author made a pit stop at the Harvard Book Store to chat about his new venture into Oz, “A Lion Among Men,” FM took the opportunity to sit down and chat about the perks and pitfalls of writing in a fantasy world...
...glaring exception: “If You’re Out There” is a sentimental attempt at a political call to action, with overly theatrical, Disney-esque drumming and gospel backup vocals that produce something far too reminiscent of the soundtrack to “The Lion King.” The lyrics are unoriginal (“If you’re out there / Sing along with me / If you’re out there / I’m dying to believe that you’re out there...”), and the placement is illogical...
...letterhead or even on the Internet. Aside from Bohnett, 52; Gill, 55; Hormel, 75; Stryker, 50; and Van Ameringen, 78, the other members of the Cabinet are Jonathan Lewis (49-year-old grandson of Joseph, co-founder of Progressive Insurance) and Linda Ketner, 58, heiress to the Food Lion fortune, who is running for Congress against GOP Representative Henry Brown Jr. of South Carolina...