Long before Whoopi Goldberg was dicing it up in the often-controversial talk show "The View," the actress showed she could survive in the jungle – as part of a trio of hyenas in 1994's "The Lion King.

Maybe not as seriously as the hyena researchers that filed a lawsuit against Disney upon the release of the animated film The Lion King back in 1994. While Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed — the three main ...

In the original animated Lion King, the hyenas were depicted as crass lowlifes that many interpreted as thinly veiled stand-ins for minorities. The new version goes in a different direction. In case ...

For generations of viewers, "The Lion King" is sacred ground. But Keegan-Michael Key embraced the opportunity to appear in Disney's photorealistic remake (in theaters Friday) of the 1994 animated ...