Harry Shearer sheared by NPR

When “The Simpsons” voice actor Harry Shearer tried to buy ad time on NPR to promote his movie “The Big Uneasy,” a documentary claiming the flooding in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina was caused by the negligence of the Army Corps of Engineers, the network refused. Shearer, the voice of Mr. Burns and Ned Flanders, wanted the ad to say “a documentary about why New Orleans flooded,” but NPR would accept only “a documentary about New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina.” “The bickering went on for days,” Shearer said. NPR said the language violated FCC guidelines. The film screens tomorrow at Chelsea Clearview and Village East.