One of the executive producers of The Simpsons is the great James L. Brooks, who, in addition to helping midwife this series from the interstitial Matt Groening shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, wrote and directed such excellent movies as Terms of Endearment and Broadcast News. That latter film premiered in 1987, two years before Fox’s The Simpsons. And tonight, all these years later, we have a modern updated connection: a new Simpsons