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Word: meerkats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first act. The pop-up cactus plants need to inflate sooner. The "bug boxes" that roll across the stage, displaying grubworms, spiders and other crawly creatures, are moving too slowly. More troublesome, the number lacks a little oomph at the end. She tells Max Casella, who plays Timon the meerkat, to try some twirls and flourishes, and maybe a wave to the audience, as he exits and the curtain falls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: THE LION KING A DIFFERENT BREED OF CATS | 7/28/1997 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATHAN LANE--UNCAGED | 3/25/1996 | See Source »

Earp epic outgunned; maybe he should have thrown in a meerkat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winners & Losers: Jul. 11, 1994 | 7/11/1994 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: The Mouse Roars | 6/20/1994 | See Source »

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