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Bezig met laden... My life as a 10-year-old boy (2000)door Nancy Cartwright
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I got this as a fun read for a road trip, and it was a fun read, with a bit of Simpsons insider trivia. I think it was written mainly for fans who keep asking Cartwright the same questions about how the show is made or which guest stars are assholes. (She never calls anybody that, but it's pretty clear who was cool and who wasn't). I would have loved to read more about her training with Daws Butler and her younger years in general. There's something so amazing about a person who decides at a young age they want to do something unusual, and set about to do it. Will Shortz is the only other person like this who comes to mind right now. The other thing the book could have use was a ghost writer! My gosh, every other sentence ended with an exclamation point! It was really annoying! Gave up reading this around page 70. While some anecdotes are mildly amusing, the story is not interesting; it describes Cartwright's quick rise to fame without any notable setbacks and then just focuses on namedropping celebrity guest stars who have appeared on the Simpsons. I was hoping for some cool background knowledge on the Simpsons, but none was forthcoming. Cowabunga! I really liked this book. I'd recommend to anyone who wants to read this, to listen to the CD. She puts in the Bart voice when appropriate as well as imitates her co-workers. Recorded a couple of years after she wrote the book, she added a few footnotes of updates. There is so much to learn about putting on an animated series, plus all the stuff she did before the Simpsons. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Don't have a cow, man--Bart Simpson is a girl! This loosely kept secret is exposed in full as voice-over artist Nancy Cartwright, ebullient and high-energy enough to light up her native Ohio, tells all. "Simpsons" fans will revel in the insider information; biography fans will enjoy the memoirs of an actress who committed to her dream and saw it through with spectacular results. Cartwright certainly has a dream job--six hours of work a week, great compensation, and the ability to walk down the street unassaulted by celebrity-seekers. A feel-good, rollicking listen. D.J.B. 2005 Audie Award Finalist (c) AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine.
HTML:Nancy Cartwright is the ultimate Simpsons insider. Her raspy, childlike voice is immediately recognizable as none other than Bart Simpson, the most precocious, irreverent, and intriguing ten-year-old ever to enter the American consciousness. In this behind-the-scenes story Nancy Cartwright tells of the Simpsonsâ??s early days, when the cast was given a closet-sized space to record commercial bumpers for The Tracey Ullman Show. She traces the Simpsonsâ??s rapid rise to wild popularity, offers hilarious anecdotes about cast members and guest stars including Mel Gibson, Meryl Streep, and Elizabeth Taylor, and explains what goes into making the half-hour animated series. And she reveals what it's like to be at the center of an American institution, one that reinvented the sitcom, rocked the networks to the core, and changed forever the face of American television. Packed with more information than has ever been revealed about the longest-running animated show, here is the perfect book for the millions of Simpsons fans who can't get enough of Americaâ??s favorite dysfunctional fam Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Part of me expected the book to be more about Nancy than Bart. I really enjoyed the first chapters as Nancy bursts into the scene and I now appreciate more the job of the world of animation.
But then she started pulling things from her journal ... *gasp* I'm far from the biggest Hollywood fan, so it came across as immature and superficial.
This book should only be read by a die-hard Simpsons fan.
After reading a biography (or auto biography), I often use the "Would I want to hang out with this person?" as a measuring stick. For Nancy, she didn't offer a whole lot for me to admire. She's not an evil or even a bad person.
She just seems out of touch. She acts as a ten year old boy ... maybe she acts like a ten year old in real life.
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