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If a dauber of this ragged tribe ever felt a sensation that resembled ambition , it seldom soared above the desire of displaying his strength on lions from Africa , or royal tigers from Bengal : such a man felt no abasement in passing through the streets with a pallet in one hand , and a bladder of oil in the other ; or in mounting a ladder to exercise his imitative powers on a china punch-bowl , with the peeling of a lemon gracefully curling over the brim . So I 'm ready to take my medicine when it passes $ 250 million and is the biggest animated flick since Lion King . The Anatolian goddess , when envisaged in the form of Cybele , was regularly associated with a pair of lions or a single lion . NBC has a couple of shows in trouble : “ Hawaii , ” a hodgepodge cop show set on a volcano-burping island , and “ Father of the Pride , ” an adult cartoon about a dysfunctional family of lions and their show biz managers , Siegfried and Roy . From the legends of our ancestors and the fears of our children , the bestselling author of Lion of Ireland has crafted an environmental fantasy which sweeps from Atlantis and the flood to 21st-century America .