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The Lion King is a 1994 American animated ___MASK47___ ___MASK76___ , produced by Walt Disney Feature ___MASK81___ and released by Walt Disney Pictures . It is the 32nd Disney animated feature film . The story takes place in a kingdom of lions in Africa and was influenced by ___MASK25___ ' s " Hamlet ". The film was produced during a period known as the Disney Renaissance . " The Lion King " was directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff , produced by Don Hahn , and has a screenplay credited to Irene Mecchi , Jonathan Roberts , and Linda Woolverton . Its original songs were written by composer Elton John and lyricist Tim Rice , and original scores were written by Hans Zimmer . The film features an ensemble voice cast that includes Matthew Broderick , James Earl Jones , Jeremy Irons , Jonathan Taylor Thomas , Moira Kelly , Nathan Lane , Ernie Sabella , Rowan Atkinson , Robert Guillaume , Madge Sinclair , Whoopi Goldberg , Cheech Marin , and Jim Cummings . Jeff Bleckner ( born August 12 , 1943 ) is an American theatre and ___MASK43___ director . Matthew Broderick ( born ___MASK55___ 21 , 1962 ) is an American actor and singer . His roles include the title character in " Ferris Bueller ' s Day Off " ( 1986 ) for which he earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor  Motion Picture ___MASK65___ or Comedy , the adult voice of Simba in Disney ' s " The Lion King " trilogy ( 1994  2004 ), David Lightman in the Cold War thriller " WarGames ", and Leo Bloom in the Broadway production of " The Producers ". Pushing Daisies is an American ___MASK75___ mystery ___MASK61___ - ___MASK57___ ___MASK87___ created by Bryan Fuller that aired on ABC from October 3 , 2007 , to June 13 , 2009 . The series stars Lee Pace as Ned , a pie - maker with the ability to bring dead things back to life with his touch , an ability that comes with stipulations . Together with his formerly deceased childhood crush Chuck ( Anna Friel ), private investigator Emerson Cod ( Chi McBride ), and co - worker Olive Snook ( Kristin Chenoweth ), Ned uses his abilities to solve murder cases . The cast also includes Ellen Greene , Swoosie Kurtz , and Field Cate , with Jim Dale acting as narrator . WarGames is a 1983 American Cold ___MASK62___ ___MASK52___ written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F . Parkes and directed by John Badham . The film stars Matthew Broderick , Dabney Coleman , John Wood , and Ally Sheedy . You ' re a Good Man , Charlie Brown is a 1967 ___MASK65___ comedy with music and lyrics by Clark Gesner , based on the characters created by cartoonist Charles M . Schulz in his comic strip " Peanuts ". The ___MASK65___ has been a popular choice for amateur theatre productions because of its small cast and simple staging . Sally Brown is the younger sister of Charlie Brown in the ___MASK58___ " Peanuts " by Charles Schulz . She was first mentioned in early 1959 and throughout a long series of strips before her first appearance in August 1959 . Kathy Steinberg was the first to voice Sally in 1965 . The Cold ___MASK62___ was a state of political and ___MASK79___ tension after World ___MASK62___ II between powers in the Eastern Bloc ( the Soviet Union and its satellite states ) and powers in the Western Bloc ( the United States , its NATO allies and others ). Historians do not fully agree on the dates , but a common timeframe is the period ( the second half of the 20th century ) between 1947 , the year the Truman Doctrine ( a U . S . policy pledging to aid nations threatened by Soviet expansionism ) was announced , and 1991 , the year the Soviet Union collapsed . ___MASK61___ - ___MASK57___ , occasionally known as dramedy ( portmanteau of words ___MASK57___ and comedy ), is a subgenre in contemporary forms of tragicomedy , especially in television , that combines elements of comedy and ___MASK57___ . The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC ) is an American commercial broadcast ___MASK43___ network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal , a subsidiary of Comcast . The network is headquartered in the Comcast Building ( formerly known as the GE Building ) at Rockefeller Center in New York City , with additional major offices near Los Angeles ( at Universal City Plaza ), Chicago ( at the NBC Tower ) and soon in Philadelphia at Comcast Innovation and ___MASK9___ Center . The network is part of the Big Three ___MASK43___ networks . NBC is sometimes referred to as the " Peacock Network ", in ___MASK37___ to its stylized peacock logo , which was originally created in 1956 for its then - new color broadcasts and became the network ' s official emblem in 1979 . A ___MASK43___ director directs the activities involved in making a ___MASK43___ program and is part of a ___MASK43___ crew . Kristin Dawn Chenoweth ( born Kristi Dawn Chenoweth , July 24 , 1968 ) is an American actress and singer , with credits in ___MASK65___ theatre , film and television . In 1999 , she won a Tony Award for her performance as Sally Brown in " You ' re a Good Man , Charlie Brown " on Broadway . In 2003 , she received wide notice for originating the role of Glinda in the ___MASK65___ " Wicked ", including a nomination for another Tony . Her television roles have included Annabeth Schott in NBC ' s " The West Wing " and Olive Snook on the ABC comedy - drama " Pushing Daisies ", for which she won a 2009 Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series . Chenoweth also starred in the ABC TV series " GCB " in 2012 . Annabeth Schott , played by Kristin Chenoweth , is a fictional character on the political ___MASK57___ " The West Wing ". She joins the Bartlet administration in Season 6 as Deputy Press Secretary for media relations following the promotion of C . J . Cregg to White House Chief of Staff , although she applied for a different position after working for and reportedly " discovering " political talk show host Taylor Reid . She holds a bachelor ' s degree in art ___MASK78___ from the University of Maryland . Simba ( from the Swahili word for lion ) is a fictional character who appears in " The Lion King " franchise . Introduced in Walt Disney ___MASK81___ ' s 32nd animated feature film " The Lion King " ( 1994 ), the character subsequently appears in its sequels "" ( 1998 ) and " The Lion King 1 " ( 2004 ). ___MASK65___ theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs , spoken dialogue , acting , and dance . The story and emotional content of a ___MASK65___  humor , pathos , love , anger  are communicated through the words , music , movement and technical aspects of the ___MASK42___ as an integrated whole . Although ___MASK65___ theatre overlaps with other theatrical forms like opera and dance , it may be distinguished by the equal importance given to the music as compared with the dialogue , movement and other elements . Since the early 20th century , ___MASK65___ theatre stage works have generally been called , simply , musicals . An Emmy Award , or simply Emmy , recognizes excellence in the ___MASK43___ industry , and corresponds to the Academy Award ( for film ), the Tony Award ( for theatre ), and the Grammy Award ( for ___MASK24___ ). A ___MASK43___ network is a telecommunications network for distribution of ___MASK43___ program content , whereby a central operation provides programming to many ___MASK43___ stations or pay ___MASK43___ providers . Until the mid - 1980s , ___MASK43___ programming in most countries of the world was dominated by a small number of broadcast networks . Many early ___MASK43___ networks ( such as the BBC , NBC or CBC ) evolved from earlier ___MASK67___ networks . The ___MASK24___ Man is a 2003 American ___MASK46___ directed by Jeff Bleckner and starring Matthew Broderick and Kristin Chenoweth . The television production , which was broadcast by ABC on the February 16 , 2003 , edition of The Wonderful World of Disney , is based on the book of the 1957 stage ___MASK65___ by Meredith Willson , which was based on a story by Willson and Franklin Lacey . The ___MASK65___ was adapted for television by Sally Robinson . It was filmed entirely in Ontario , Canada . The three - hour presentation was watched by 13 . 1 million viewers , with a 3 . 8 rating / 9 share in adults aged 18 -- 49 . It finished second in the first two hours and fourth in the final hour . A ___MASK46___ ( also known as a TV film ; television movie ; TV movie ; telefilm ; telemovie ; made - for - ___MASK46___ ; direct - to - TV film ; movie of the week ( MOTW or MOW ); feature - length ___MASK57___ ; single ___MASK57___ and original movie ) is a feature - length motion picture that is produced for , and originally distributed by or to , a television network , in contrast to theatrical films , which are made explicitly for initial showing in movie theaters . Ferris Bueller ' s Day Off is a 1986 American teen ___MASK86___ written , co - produced and directed by John Hughes , and co - produced by Tom Jacobson . The film stars Matthew Broderick as Ferris Bueller , a high - school slacker who spends a day off from school , with Mia Sara and Alan Ruck . Ferris regularly " breaks the fourth wall " to explain techniques and inner thoughts . ___MASK43___ or TV is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome ( black - and - white ), or in color , and in two or three dimensions and sound . It can refer to a ___MASK43___ set , a ___MASK43___ program (" TV show "), or the medium of ___MASK43___ transmission . ___MASK43___ is a ___MASK36___ medium , for ___MASK42___ , education , news , and advertising . The West Wing is an American ___MASK31___ political ___MASK57___ ___MASK87___ created by Aaron Sorkin that was originally broadcast on NBC from September 22 , 1999 , to May 14 , 2006 . The series is set primarily in the West Wing of the White House , where the Oval Office and offices of presidential senior staff are located , during the fictitious Democratic administration of Josiah Bartlet ( played by Martin Sheen ). A movie ___MASK40___ or movie theatre ( also called a cinema ) is a venue , usually a building , that contains an auditorium for viewing films ( also called movies or motion pictures ), for ___MASK42___ . Most , but not all , movie theaters are commercial operations catering to the general public , who attend by purchasing a ticket . Some movie theaters , however , are operated by non - profit organizations or societies which charge members a membership fee to view films . A film , also called a movie , motion picture , theatrical film or photoplay , is a series of still images which , when shown on a screen , creates the illusion of moving images due to the phi phenomenon . This ___MASK92___ causes the audience to perceive continuous motion between separate objects viewed rapidly in succession . The process of filmmaking is both an ___MASK19___ and an industry . A film is created by photographing actual scenes with a motion picture camera ; by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional ___MASK81___ techniques ; by means of CGI and computer ___MASK81___ ; or by a combination of some or all of these techniques and other visual effects .