Word: simba
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...purring offspring of Iago and Cruella De Vil, hires a pack of 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...
...most boneheaded decisions ever made by a municipal authority -- Keystone Kops reinventing Vietnam as a minifarce in which a neighborhood is destroyed in order to save it. For Cudjoe, the big bang represents creation in the form of a mysterious survivor, a boy known as Simba Muntu (Lion Man) seen walking away from the burning wreckage. The search for Simba provides the novel with an open-ended structure that allows Wideman to display his talents...