La vera storia dei Simpson. La famiglia più importante del mondo raccontata dalla voce dei suoi autori

The way Ortved has tied together quotes from people formerly part of The Simpsons' inner circle (as well as quotes found in various places by those still working on the show) is very interesting, making the book hard to put down. It's almost like being at a friend's house while her family is arguing Leggi tutto

I haven't gone near The Simpsons for about 12 years. When I was 11 or 12 and Sky started showing The Simpsons and I was lucky enough to have cable and The Simpsons was The Greatest Thing I Ever Done Seen. I would tape every show and obsessively rewatch it, sucking up the jokes over and over and lovi Leggi tutto

I’ve been a fan of The Simpsons since the first season when I was five years old (I’m old lol) so this book was interesting. A bog standard oral history book, this book misses many key contributors of The Simpsons, some that will never be available now to be interviewed (Sam Simon) and others that a Leggi tutto

I'm about 60 pages away from finishing this thing and I gotta' say that it's a MUST for SIMPSONS fans. You'll zip through it. And you might not believe how big of a DICK this thing paints Matt Groening. Put together as an 'oral history,' it's simply a set of chronological interviews, but it's a great Leggi tutto

Enjoyed some chapters, not all. Matt Groening, a loyal customer of my store, told me that he would in no way support "Ortved and his book". He'd been approached to contribute and he refused. Groening explained those that had declined an interview with Ortved were either written out of the book's Sim Leggi tutto

Amazingly, considering that The Simpsons has been on the air for 20 years now, there has been no official, or authorized, history of the show written. Ortved may have set out to write an authorized history, but it is obvious that he was not getting the cooperation he felt was necessary. As a result

The way Ortved has tied together quotes from people formerly part of The Simpsons' inner circle (as well as quotes found in various places by those still working on the show) is very interesting, making the book hard to put down. It's almost like being at a friend's house while her family is arguing Leggi tutto

(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com:]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted illegally.) Although the staff of the cultural touchstone The Simpsons has done a good job over the years of keeping i Leggi tutto

My review is now up at Popmatters: here. A preview: Imagine you are waiting tables at a wedding reception. You wander among the tables, filling glasses and laying down plates of food. You are likely to hear snippets of conversation, most likely about the bride and groom, about their families, about t Leggi tutto

Thoroughly enjoyed this book; I feel like I have a much more informed and realistic idea of how the series got its start and all the primary players. Took a few chapters to get into it; definitely see some of the author's opinion showing through in places a bit too obviously, but I like how it's a c Leggi tutto