Terms of Endearment News

"I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse." The horse's head under the bedsheets.

Last week's Oscar trivia question asked: Which was the last movie to get four nominations in the acting categories? You don't have to go back too far for the answer.

American transplant Shirley MacLaine is coming to "Downton Abbey." As we reported Monday , the veteran actress will play Lady Cora's mother in Season 3 and may be just the first of several stateside visitors coming to Downton.

Shirley MacLaine's parents were both frustrated performers, her father a violinist and her mother an actress.

According to a press release from Carnival Films and ITV, the U.K. producers of "Downton Abbey," Shirley MacLaine will join the ensemble cast of Julian Fellowes' hit period piece when it begins filming its third season next month.

Sharrock is to direct Danny DeVito and Richard Griffiths in Neil Simon's award-wining comedy The Sunshine Boys , which runs at the Savoy Theatre for a strictly limited 12 week season - from May 17 to July 28, 2012.