so the writers get to contrivin’, couching this grand origin story within a flashback narrative where wise old baboon Rafiki (John Kani) recounts the tale to Mufasa’s grandchild/Simba’s ...

In return, Wise’s tobacco chewing, short temper, and generally erratic behavior made him contemptuous in the eyes of the Virginia elite. "I would as soon have a baboon for my leader," wrote a ...