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After they exchanged a few more letters, Simon finally suggested he and other Fox Broadcasting Co. executives tour a real nuclear power plant...
...sorry that the Simpsons has offended a lot of people in the energy industry," Executive Producer Sam Simon said in a February 5 letter to Carl Goldstein, a vice president of energy group. "I agree with you that in real life, Homer Simpson would not be employed at a nuclear power plant...
Although they did little initial research, Simon said the "Simpsons" creators seemed to represent worker conditions accurately. The writers placed Homer in a "sector" to illustrate an impersonal bureaucracy, then discovered some plants actually used that term...
...show will continue to jab the industry in its third season next year, but in a more responsible way, Simon said...
...GLORY: THE LIFE OF WILLIAM S. PALEY by Sally Bedell Smith (Simon & Schuster; $29.95). An 800-page biography that flattens the image of the late self-inflating CBS founder and relentless socialite to 21-inch size and even smaller...