Product Description

In this work, Nancy Cartwright exposes the behind-the-scenes world of "The Simpsons" through her own "rather curious" perspective, and charts its stratospheric rise from a tiny slot on The Tracey Ullman Show to its Emmy-Award-winning ubiquity of today. It's now aired in 95 countries worldwide and celebrities beg to play a cameo. In a series of stories laced with anecdotes about the performers, Nancy provides an insight into a cartoon of unrivalled genius that should interest fans of the Simpsons everywhere.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1400386 in Books
• Published on: 2000-10-16
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 286 pages

Excerpted from My Life as a Ten Year Old Boy by Nancy Cartwright, Dan Castellaneta. Copyright © 2000. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Starting in the spring of '87, Julie Kavner, Dan Castellaneta, Yeardley Smith and I gathered about once a week to record the Simpsons "shorts" or "bumpers," if you will, for The Tracey Ullman Show. We wedged ourselves into a tiny room, looked each other over, double-checked our armpits and got down to it.
The hierarchy of producers and creative staff we have come to rely on over the years may have existed inthose days but you would never have known it. Matt, our Creator, must have bbeen thrilled to have the opportunity to air something on prime time, but the whole thing was something of a lark, hardly on a par with a "real" series. There was that audition and then he, like the rest of us, probably didn't have a clue that these tiny vignettes would ever develop into a planetary-wide craze, capturing audiences from age two on up; entertaining them not only with the weekly series and all the syndicated episodes you can program your VCR to tape, but also with a billion-dollar merchandise-generating extravaganza, ranging from backpacks and talking dolls to key chains and Bart Bread! Believe me, everyone was surprised.

Customer Reviews

Really nice
I bought this book expecting lots of behind the scenes gossip from the Simpsons, but instead it turned out to be the really nice, light-hearted story of Nancy Cartwright's life. (How unexpected, it being her autobiography and all...) She writes of all her past roles, her relationship with her mentor as she trained and how very few people believe she is actually Bart. There are actually a few stories about celebrities who've been on the show, but no nasty ones, which actually makes the book better, you come out of it thinking "wow, this lady's just really nice". A good read if you're a Simpsons fan, even though it's more about Nancy than Bart.

Excellent Book
I recently got this book on loan at the library unfortunatly i could only have for a week before i had to take it back. It is a great behind the scenes and behind the voices look of the simpsons. Any simpsons fanatic will love this book. She tells you of her life before the simpsons and during the reign if the simpsons. I couldn't put it down. With a excellent forward by Dan Castellaneta, Homer. If you love the simpsons you would love this.

A Rare Book But An Astonishing Read
This is very rare coz its hard 2 find in waterstones and other shops.It's amazing it tells you her life before she did The Simpsons also what she had to do when she did the simpsons!!!if you are a simpsons fan this is a must buy 4 u!!!!but be warned this book is EXTREMElY hard 2 find!!!!!!!!!!!