


Valiant was often laughed at for trying to join the war because many didn't think he would make it but one bird saw his spirit and told Valiant he could do it. It turned out that it was his size that enabled him to accomplish a great deed.įor his actions during the war (he managed to sneak down the gun barrel and retrieve the plans), he gets accepted in the Royal Homing Pigeon, and Nurse Victoria becomes his girlfriend.ĭespite being small, Valiant is determined, strong willed and always there to help. He was teased for thinking that he could do so. He is a short patriotic pigeon who wanted to join the Royal Homing Pigeon Service. Registration may be required.Valiant is the titular protagonist of Disney's 2005 animated film of the same name. (For the full New Yorker story, click here. Like one of Westport’s most famous Broadway stars, of all time. You’re never sure what the point is, or why it’s there in the first place.īut it gets you thinking about something - or someone - you haven’t thought about in a long time. It’s a typical New Yorker “Talk of the Town” piece.

She loved him, so she was willing to accept it. “I never thought of Julie as a put-upon woman. “I never thought of it as domestic violence,” Bambi Linn says. It zips through Bambi Linn’s past (at age 6 she studied with Agnes de Mille during “Carousel” she had enough downtime to go across the street to watch Ethel Merman in the 1st act of “Annie Get Your Gun”), and touches on the different ways in which the 2 productions - nearly 75 years apart - treat Billy’s beating of his wife Julie, and slapping of his daughter. The New Yorker “Talk of the Town” story called Bambi Linn “petite and zesty.” It described her encounters with Renée Fleming, who now sings “You’ll Never Walk Alone,” and Brittany Pollack, the current Louise. Bambi Linn (right) as Louise, and Jan Clayton (Julie Jordan) in the 1945 production of “Carousel.” John Raitt played Billy Bigelow.
