Word: thumpers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bambi is the star, but a puckish, toothy, yellow-nosed rabbit named Thumper almost hops off with the picture. He is a first-rate example of Disney's genius for creating an illusion of reality only to turn it into a fantasy. Thumper goes along being all rabbit, suddenly does something purely human. The shift is hilarious. Thumper's chief accomplishment is a hereditary talent for thumping his long left foot against the earth, a log, or anything else, with the staccato crack of a tommy...
...Newcomer Thumper carries most of Bambi's comedy. Just a normal growing bunny, he won't eat his greens, and adds sly innuendoes to the maxims his mother makes him recite. As court jester to Bambi, who is a prince and must maintain a reasonable reserve, he is very funny. His inability to keep his itching foot from vibrating while making love to the beauteous Mrs. Thumper is great slapstick. So is the skating lesson he gives Bambi. "Come on," he coaxes, "the water's stiff...
Bambi is filled with the laughter of children, and their voices speak for the animals. Their genuine laughter was recorded by running off some Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck cartoons at the Disney studio for a group of neighborhood children. Thumper's all-boy voice rates an Academy award. It belongs to a youngster named Peter Behn. His dialogue was recorded early in the five years it took to make the $1,600,000 Bambi. Brought back for retakes several years later, Master Behn scarcely got his lines out before his voice changed...
...uncontested by-election last week Stoker Edwards, former dockers' union leader and ardent piano thumper, won his seat. Next day he returned to active duty .at sea. Cracked his constituents: "01' Walt'll build some fires under them White hall toffs...
...Boob-Thumper. Those who were surprised by Gerald Smith's audacious bid for the nomination do not know Gerald Smith. Huey Long called him a better rabble-rouser than himself, a tribute which pleased Gerald Smith as much as H. L. Mencken's appraisal of him as the "champion boob-thumper of all epochs...