TV News  04 2011  Will 'The Simpsons' Call It Quits At The End
of This Season?  8:11am EDT   The Simpsons' six principal actors
(Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy CartwrightYeardly Smith,
Hank Azaria, and Harry Shearer) are facing a rather stark
ultimatum: take a 45 percent paycut, or else -- the "or else"
being that the show will end its run at the end of its 23rd
season, which just premiered on Fox in September.  But how did
it get to this point? Monday evening, Fox rejected the actors'
other proposal to accept a 30 percent paycut with the caveat
that they receive a percentage of the show's back-end profits,
which are pretty sizable. Every t-shirt, toy, keychain, or candy
bar with The Simpsons vissage garners cash in addition to the
millions earned from the global syndication of the beloved
series. Fox makes heaps and heaps of money from these offshoot
products, so it makes sense that the people who bring these
universally loved characters to life would want a cut.
Unfortunately, that desire seemed to s