{"product_id":"its-a-crazy-business-pinto-colvig-9798896090038","title":"It's a Crazy Business: The Goofy Life of a Disney Legend","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Goofy Life of a Disney Legend\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDisney Legend Pinto Colvig, best known as the voice of Goofy, wrote a book in the 1940s primarily about his years working for Walt at the Disney Studio. The book was packed away and forgotten, until now. You've never read anything like it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePinto writes in character, elevating his book from mere journal to an important piece of Americana, and allowing him to evoke long-gone people and places with astonishing immediacy. You'll follow him from rural Oregon to Hollywood and the Disney Studio and finally to an institution as he recovers from a nervous breakdown brought on by his vocalization of Grumpy the Dwarf.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's a Crazy Business includes: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003ePinto's early adventures in Hollywood, writing gags for Mack Sennett and voicing a Munchkin in The Wizard of Oz\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003ePinto's arrival at the Disney Studio in the early 1930s, where he worked on gags for Walt and voiced Goofy, Grumpy, and the Practical Pig\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003ePinto's vivid recollections of story meetings with Walt and the often eccentric behaviors of early Disney artists and gagmen\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003ePinto's nervous breakdown and confinement in the \"nut hatch\", with surreal fantasies of skeletal Dwarfs and a bedside chat with God\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe life of a comedic genius: in his own gag-strewn words!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Pinto Colvig\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798896090038\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Theme Park Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/24\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 166\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.87lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d","brand":"Pinto Colvig","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48014203289855,"sku":"9798896090038","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_247eb9b0-e61c-4177-bdb8-acd14caf1682.jpg?v=1767747330","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/its-a-crazy-business-pinto-colvig-9798896090038","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}