My Life ss a Ten Year-Old Boy
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (922 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0786886005 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Nancy Cartwright is familiar to millions around the world as the voice of Bart Simpson, a role she's been performing since 1987. . She lives in the Los Angeles area
Interesting cross between "fanzine" bio and show biz bio This book is a fascinating cross between a standard "fanzine" bio -- giving enthusiastic fans all (and even MORE than all) they want to know about a star and/or show -- and a solid show biz bio. So it'll please and disappoint some. This isn't a hedge, but a fact.Nancy Cartwright is a supremely young talented actress/voice-over artist who, unless you live on. "* * 1/2 Eventually, I wanted to stuff a towel in her mouth" according to The Man in the Hathaway Shirt. To start with, a disclosure: I am a Simpsons nut. I think it's the greatest TV show ever. (Yes, I'm including All In The Family, M*A*S*H and all those other classics.)Unfortunately, I won't say the same for Ms. Cartwright's book. At first it was fairly pleasant, if a tad breezy and even vapid at times. But after a while she started to come across as so egot. Bennet Pomerantz said Ode to The Simpsons. Having read Nancy Cartwright's book, My Life As A Ten Year Old Boy (5 cds, 6 hours, unabridged) which was not a great book or a great tell all. On the printed page, the book was slow and boring. So, I was very leary of an audio version. Well, I was wrongThe audio version sparkles.Cartwright seems to do a one woman show in narrating her book. Okay, she doesn
Now, Nancy traces The Simpsons'rapid rise to wild popularity, offers hilarious anecdotes about cast members and guest stars and reveals what it's like to be at the center of a North American institution, one that reinvented the sitcom, rocked the networks to the core and forever changed the face of television.. Nancy Cartwright, the ultimate Simpsons insider, gives voice to the boy immediately recognizable as none other than Bart Simpson
An introductory chapter breezes over Cartwright's early fascination with voice work; her education and serendipitous mentor-student relationship with Daws Butler, the voice of Yogi Bear; and her early career as a cartoon voice actor, including stints on My Little Pony and Friends. Gillian EngbergCopyright © American Library Association. From Booklist Cartwright is the voice of Bart Simpson, and in her enthusiastic, candid memoir, she delivers an inside view of the show that has become such a cultural phenomenon. Cartwright refers to her own "overly ebullient nature," and the book's voice is relentlessly cheerful, almost giggly, with constant asides such as, "I'm suuure! Ohmygod!" and exclamations about brushes with fame: Tom Jones "was such a total stud!" But in between the giddiness, she throws in enough hard facts and industry gossip to ap