SIMPSONS ACTUALLY BURNSES "Last week, Fox announced a fall schedule that included animated staple 'The Simpsons' in its normal Sunday timeslot. The hitch? There's still no deal with the voice talent behind 'The Simpsons.' And without one, the 20th season of the series could be in jeopardy. While sources close to both the voice actors and 20th Century Fox TV are optimistic that they're on the road to a new deal, production on the show's 20th season has been on hold for months … The key 'Simpsons' cast members — Dan Castellaneta (Homer), Julie Kavner (Marge), Nancy Cartwright (Bart), Yeardley Smith (Lisa), Hank Azaria (Moe) and Harry Shearer (Mr. Burns) — are believed to make around $360,000 an episode. A new deal could bump that number closer to $500,000 …"

Celebrities make too much money. Subjective, sure, but probably true. Truer still is that very often those fortunes are wasted in inglorious, ill-planned blazes.

Screw Birkin bags, time for money that counts: political donations.

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Nancy Cartwright, actress and the voice of Bartholomew J Simpson, last year donated $10 million to the Church of Scientology. Her offering was twice the amount given by Tom Cruise, turgid loony and second-in-command of Scientology. Cartwright's millions will be spent trying to rid the world of psychology.

It was all part of Scientology’s Global Salvage effort, which aims to “de-aberrate” Earth — meaning to rid mankind of psychology ills and other “aberrant” behavior.
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Nancy, like her fellow principal cast members on The Simpsons, has reportedly been earning $250,000 per episode since 2004, when her salary was upped from $125,000 per episode. At 22 episodes per season, that makes for an annual paycheck of $5.5 million.

This is sadder than when Homer's mother leaves again after briefly coming back from the activist underground. Doh. Doh, indeed.