After 18 seasons and 400 episodes, Fox's The Simpsons (Sundays at 8 pm/ET) has attracted more than 350 celebrities to offer their voices to animated doppelgangers. Some have played themselves (Steve Buscemi, anyone?), some new characters (Reese Witherspoon as Rainier Wolfcastle's daughter, for instance), some old characters (Kiefer Sutherland and Mary Lynn Rajskub, who reprise their roles from 24 on May 20) — and in one instance, a mix (Elizabeth Taylor played herself and voiced Maggie's first word). Throughout, producers have attract
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Gravelly voiced theater vet Harvey Fierstein, who originated the stage role of Hairspray's Edna Turnblad, is developing a Fox sitcom in which he will play a blue-collar mom with two kids in Seaside Heights, N.J. The show is described as "Roseanne-ish," although with a possibly more feminine lead.
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