It's a Crazy Business

<p>The Goofy Life of a Disney Legend</p><p><br></p><p>Disney 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.</p><p><br></p><p>Pinto 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.</p><p>It's a Crazy Business includes:</p><p><br></p><ol><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span>Pinto's early adventures in Hollywood writing gags for Mack Sennett and voicing a Munchkin in The Wizard of Oz</li></ol><p><br></p><ol><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span>Pinto'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</li></ol><p><br></p><ol><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span>Pinto's vivid recollections of story meetings with Walt and the often eccentric behaviors of early Disney artists and gagmen</li></ol><p><br></p><ol><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span>Pinto's nervous breakdown and confinement in the nut hatch with surreal fantasies of skeletal Dwarfs and a bedside chat with God</li></ol><p><br></p><p>The life of a comedic genius: in his own gag-strewn words!</p>