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Ms Rock the country Travis Tritt, Trisha Yeanvood have a wide range of influences. Page 59. Also Inside A la Carte 63 Wand Radio 64-65 Classified 67 mm THE BOSTON GLOBE FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1994 n7 7 fis nfii lid Ifn 11 111 fci ifnm) More tough-minded than sugarcoated, Disney's latest animated feature is an instant classic By Jay Carr GLOBE STAFF ooner or later, Disney's winning streak must end, but it's still vibrantly alive with "The Lion King." This is an instant classic, primal and immediate in its depiction of the death of a parent, firmly anchored in the Disney style hile extending its boundaries with arresting new-perspectives and a tough-minded-ness simply not possible to its most obvious ancestors, "Bambi" and "The Jungle Book." Like the fawn prince Bambi, who lost his mother, the lion prince Simba loses his father in a wildebeest stampede and sees him die. Con-MoviP fused, traumatized and guilt- tripped by his evil uncle, he K6VIGW runs away but returns, grown, to come of age in a life-or- death power struggle. There's a rich vein of comedy in "The Lion King," too, and it out-jungles "The Jungle Book" when the self-exiled cub meets up with Timon, a meerkat (the veldt version of a prairie dog), and Pumbaa, a wart hog who looks uncannily like Fred Flintstone.

The zany little meerkat -voiced by Broadway musical star Nathan Lane -is the character that gives "The Lion King" most of its zip. Nothing in the serviceable but unre-' markable score by Tim Rice and Elton John is as fizzy as the meerkat's rendition of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight." The film also falls back on "It's a Small World," "I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts" and "The Hawaiian War Chant" to help Timon and Pumbaa play Falstaff and Pistol MOVIE, Page 52 Simba (right) and Nala as cubs during a musical number in "The Lion King." Dance Review Museum names Briton as new director Bold, brash hip-hop ma By Christine Temin GLOBE STAFF By Patti Hartigan GLOBE STAFF 1 ip-hop is a "fusion of African, European and even Brazilian dance forms," Wyatt Jackson told the crowd at the Strand last night for the opening of Dance Umbrella's "Hip-Hop Boston" show. Hip-hop is also, Jackson said, "the most exciting dance form to come out change." The board of directors gave him a vote of confidence yesterday afternoon. Rogers will replace Alan Shestack, who resigned in September. Rogers, 45, vowed to institute measured change at the venerable institution, which is strapped with financial woes and low morale among the overworked staff.

The institution not only needs change, it also needs cash. The MFA sustains an annual deficit of more than $3 million, and curators have had to cut back on exhibitions to make up for the shortfall. Board MFA, Page 63 Malcolm Austin Rogers, deputy director of the National Portrait Gallery in London, was appointed director of the Museum of Fine Arts yesterday. The gregarious scholar, who was greeted with a standing ovation from the MFA board of directors, used the occasion to allay fears that he's going to clean house and turn the museum inside out. "A fine arts institution doesn't need shaking up: You might damage the works of art," Rogers said.

"But it does need i of the black community since the Lindy Hop in the 1930s." He spent the next two hours proving that claim, as 13 of Boston's best hip-hop groups, chosen from a field of more than 50 applicants, thrilled the audience with movement that was bold and brash. Jackson did use the word "nuance" dur-' ing his MC duties, but subtle this stuff is not, at least not at HIP, Page 51 Ik GLOBE STAFF PHOTO JONATHAN WIGGS Malcolm Rogers: "A fine arts institution doesn't need shaking up." Kevin Costner takes aim as Wyatt Earp aiiff sir n3i 1 il iMmwmi World Cup puts local TV on sidelines mh mm "miimmU it ifri iHM MiIn 1 GLOBE STAFF PHOTO FRANK O'BRIEN Fenway's home-run billboard: The Fleet's in, for now, but Shawmut Bank may take over. Costner's daring 'Wyatt Earp' BITTER AND SENSELESS I 1 erupted Between World jfl Cup organizers and Boston's By Jay Cair GLOBE STAFF television stations, wnicn are oe- i ing denied access to practically to utilize TV, you've got to reach out." Bob Caporale, who heads up the local World Cup committee, wants to arrange a meeting between the angry TV-niks and the FIFA solons, in the hopes of relaxing some of the coverage guidelines. Says a mildly bewildered Frank Shorr, sports producer for Channel 7: "Why didn't we do this six months ago?" Signs of the times My old friend William Board came forward the other clay to talk about the, uh, questionable status of some of the city's largest and most lucrative outdoor ad-TGIF, Page 54 expected that local stations and even ABC affiliates would be completely stiffed on access to training fields and outside-the-stadium events. "It has been darned near impossible to cover the World Cup visit here in any acceptable fashion," according to Mike Fernandez, sports director for Channel 5.

As a result, the ABC affiliate has scaled back its plans to produce programs surrounding the ABC-broadcast games. "It was my understanding that the organizers wanted to heighten interest among those of us who didn't grow up with soccer as part of our culture," says Fernandez. "If you want all World Cup sporting events. In return, the stations are not bothering to cover dopey, made-for-TV photo ops, e.g., the Opening Day procession along Beacon Street, further alienating local soccer organizers. Everyone knows that FIFA, the international soccer federation, and its Los Angeles-based henchmen, World Cup USA, sold television broadcast rights to Univi-sion, ESPN and ABC eons ago.

But no one Kevin Costner's epic "Wyatt Earp" literally and figuratively gives you more of the legendary lawman than any of the other famous movies about him. Tempering its violence with tragic awareness, it's handsome, full of sweep, weight and integrity, long on character, downplaying any temptation to histrionics. Actually, it's a a Qu'te faring performance Costner unfurls. MOVie KeVieW For more than three hours, he's at the film's center, but his Wyatt Earp compels us to come to him. We can feel him hardeTtrretreat inside himself after his young wife dies.

His overriding priority was his EARP'Page52.