The Cricket's Daily 3: Is Harry Shearer leaving 'The Simpsons'?

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Here's what is happening in pop culture:

• It's looking like Harry Shearer — the voice behind such characters as Mr. Burns, Waylon Smithers, Rev. Lovejoy, Kent Brockman and more — won't be returning to "The Simpsons" for seasons 27 and 28. But those characters will continue, producers say. [Entertainment Weekly]

• The Cannes Film Festival opened last night, with a surreal movie, "Tale of Tales," that, among other things, had Salma Hayek eating a sea monster's heart. [Vulture]

• Texas fiddler Johnny Gimble — who recorded with the likes of Dolly Parton, Merle Haggard, George Strait and many others — has died at the age of 88. [Rolling Stone]