Word: matata
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dining Services Director Michael P. Berry was exploring a whole new world at Disney, the search for his successor wasn't all hakuna matata...
...Love! Valour! Compassion! Yet Lane has also been hailed for such all-American straight roles as Nathan Detroit in the 1992 revival of Guys and Dolls, and his movie parts have ranged from Michael J. Fox's brother in Life with Mikey to the voice of the Hakuna Matata-singing meerkat in The Lion King. Lane has little interest in being treated as a standard bearer for gay roles in movies. "I'm just an actor," he says. "I'm not a politician...
...though, the Katzenberg era at Disney -- one of phenomenal growth, an eerie stability and that amazing revival of the precious cartoon heritage -- has ended. Oh well, as the Lion King would say, hakuna matata. Not to worry. Eisner will reinvent his company, and soon, perhaps, Katzenberg will invent his own. For the moment, he's in the hot seat. His former colleague -- and future competitor -- is sitting in the Katzenberg seat...
...hyenas as his goons: clever Shenzi (Whoopi Goldberg), giddy Banzai (Cheech Marin) and idiotic Ed (Jim Cummings), who says little but is happy to chew voraciously on his own leg. The hero's helpers, who save Simba in the desert and teach him their live-for-today philosophy, Hakuna matata -- Swahili for "What, me worry?" -- are Timon (Nathan Lane), a streetwitty meerkat, and the lumbering wart-hog Pumbaa (Ernie Sabella). They chew beetles...
...time-honored fashion of ambitious young interns, Kanzi became involved in language experiments by catching the boss's eye. Savage-Rumbaugh noticed that the young ape was learning words she was struggling to teach his mother Matata. The language was a system of abstract visual symbols developed by Savage-Rumbaugh's husband Duane Rumbaugh during his first language experiments with chimpanzees. "If Kanzi could learn without instruction, I wondered, Why teach?" says Savage-Rumbaugh. From then on, Kanzi learned language much the way human children do: by going through the ordinary activities of his day while humans spoke in English...