It has been pointed out to me that I had a somewhat-misleading headline on my last item about the Simpsons voice cast and their fight for better pay. I put "The Simpsons Strike" up there and that's not really true. The actors are not on strike. Their old contract has expired and they're attempting to negotiate a new one at better terms, which is what every single human being who appears on a successful TV show tries to do.
The difference is significant because, for P.R. purposes, some would like to cast them as the villains in this little drama and make it sound like they had good jobs and walked off them. Another way of looking at it is that the old contract expired and Fox has not yet made them a decent offer to return for more shows. This kind of thing happens all the time in Show Biz, often without making the papers.