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TELEVISION

Doh! ‘Simpsons’ Voices Back: The voices of Fox’s “The Simpsons”--Dan Castellaneta (Homer), Yeardley Smith (Lisa), Harry Shearer (Smithers and others) and Hank Azaria (Moe the Bartender and others)--settled their contract dispute with Twentieth Century Fox Television and resumed production on the show Thursday. The actors had been holding out for $150,000 per episode, at least five times what most of them had been making. Although terms were not revealed, reports indicated that the deal will pay them at least $50,000 an episode, or $1 million a year. Nancy Cartwright, who provides the voice for Bart Simpson, settled for $50,000 per episode last week.

Network Notes: Ellen DeGeneres will guest star on the May 19 season finale of NBC’s “Mad About You,” playing the Buckmans’ new nanny. Oscar winner James Cameron (“Titanic”) will make a cameo appearance, playing himself. . . . Lauren Bacall guests on a two-part episode of CBS’ “Chicago Hope” (April 29 and May 6), playing an artist with an inoperable brain tumor. . . . The Dan Aykroyd sitcom “Soul Man” returns to ABC’s schedule on April 14, in the Tuesday 8:30 p.m. slot. That will push “Something So Right,” which had been airing at 8:30, back to 9:30 p.m. “That’s Life,” the new midseason series that had been airing at 9:30 p.m., will go off the air after five broadcasts. . . . ABC’s “Politically Incorrect With Bill Maher” drew its highest ratings ever last week, with an average of 3.8 million viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research.

PERFORMING ARTS

Summer Bowling: A concert performance of Puccini’s opera “Turandot” (Sept. 6), with soprano Jane Eaglen in the title role (accompanied by fireworks) and appearances by vocalists Della Reese (narrating “A Lincoln Portrait” on July 3, 4, 5) and Natalie Cole (Aug. 7, 8) were among additions announced Thursday to this summer’s Hollywood Bowl season. A June 24 tribute to former L.A. Philharmonic managing director Ernest Fleischmann will now include appearances by Harry Connick Jr., Kathleen Battle, Ray Brown, John Clayton and Itzhak Perlman performing with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra led by John Williams. The orchestra’s music director, John Mauceri, also said he’s negotiating to present music from Paul Simon’s $11-million Broadway musical “Capeman,” which closed early after a critical drubbing this winter. Patrick Stewart and Lynn Redgrave were named as the soloists on the “Broadway ‘98” program (Sept. 11, 12), singing excerpts from “Sweeney Todd.” Yo-Yo Ma is set to play the mystical cello concerto “The Protecting Veil” by John Tavener on Sept. 15, in place of previously announced programming.

MOVIES

Spielberg to Direct Lindbergh Bio: DreamWorks Pictures has purchased the rights to A. Scott Berg’s much-anticipated biography of American aviator Charles A. Lindbergh, with the project to be developed for DreamWorks principal Steven Spielberg to direct. DreamWorks said that Spielberg has long had a fascination with Lindbergh and aggressively sought rights to the book sight unseen. Author Berg spent eight years researching the tome, which is due this fall.

POP/ROCK

Whitney’s Gospel Truth: Whitney Houston will get back to her gospel music roots this month with a performance at the April 23 Dove Awards ceremony in Nashville. Houston--who boycotted this year’s Grammy Awards because her album “The Preacher’s Wife” was nominated in the R&B; category instead of gospel--will sing “I Go to the Rock,” a Dove nominee for best traditional gospel recording. John Tesh and Naomi Judd will host the awards, which are presented by the Gospel Music Assn. and will air that night on cable’s the Nashville Network.

Label Kuruption: Rapper Kurupt, 25, a former member of the Death Row Records stable, has teamed with A&M; Records to launch his own record company, ANTRA Records, which is being billed as “the industry’s first bi-coastal hip-hop label,” with offices in Philadelphia and Los Angeles. ANTRA is an acronym for All New Talent Recording Artists; the label’s first release will be Kurupt’s solo album debut, “Kuruption,” due this summer. While with Death Row, Kurupt was a member the trio of Tha Dogg Pound, whose album “Dog Food” sold more than 3 million copies. Kurupt said he is working on a tentative project for his label with Snoop Doggy Dog and Ice Cube, called “3 Tha Hard Way.”

QUICK TAKES

Singer-songwriter Tori Amos will perform at the El Rey Theatre on May 6. Ticket information has not been announced. . . . Cable’s A&E; is jumping into the Clinton “sexgate” fray with an installment of its “Biography” series focusing on Paula Corbin Jones. It airs Saturday at 9 p.m. . . . In what is being billed as a union of TV’s “two most outrageous talk-show hosts,” Jerry Springer will guest on “The RuPaul Show,” airing on cable’s VH1 Saturday at 11 p.m. . . . Cast members of NBC’s “Homicide: Life on the Street” will hold an online conversation (https://www.nbc.com/live or https://www.talkcity.com/nbc-homicide) today at 6 p.m. during the wrap party for the series’ 100th episode. . . . Cast members from TV’s original “Lost in Space,” including June Lockhart, Jonathan Harris, Angela Cartwright and the Robot, will hold an online chat (https://www.etonline.com) today at 4 p.m. The chat coincides with the release of the new “Lost in Space” feature film.