Happy Birthday to actress Shawnee Smith (1970), Barenaked Ladies keyboardist Kevin Hearn (1969), "The Simpsons" actress Yeardley Smith (1964), actor Tom Cruise (1962),

This week the voice cast of "The Simpsons" signed a deal guaranteeing them each around $400,000 per episode and also that the show will run through its 20th season

Actress Yeardley Smith Erikson, the woman behind cartoon character Lisa Simpson's voice, has filed for divorce from her husband of four years.

Typecasting is an actor's worst nightmare. The last thing a professional wants to happen is getting pigeonholed into the same role time after time following a breakthrough performance. Usually this happens at the beginning of a career, such as the case of Bob Denver. Denver was Gilligan for the rest of his career and essentially the rest his life.

The Simpsons is set to become a major casualty of the writers' strike because not enough episodes have been completed to last the current season.

It takes a feature-length film to fully capture Homer Simpson's stupidity and The Simpsons Movie does it! One of the top grossing films of all time, The Simpsons Movie has generated more than $500 million globally and will be available worldwide on DVD and Blu-Ray Disc (BD) Internationally on December 3 and in North America on December 18 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.

Troubled star Britney Spears looks set to be immortalized as a cartoon character - in hit TV show The Simpsons. The pop singer is in the frame to be the next target for bosses of the award-winning animated series. And despite all the bad press of recent months, it seems the singer's problems will be presented in a uniquely positive light.

Los Angeles, CA - A soundtrack so highly anticipated that even Homer would get off the couch to celebrate its arrival, The Simpsons: Testify is finally here!

LOS ANGELES (AP) - For a cartoon comedy dependent on how much ruination one homely yellow family can cause, there's an awful lot of drama behind ''The Simpsons.''