For MMSC: Downton Abbey Season 3

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Originally Posted by my miss storm cat

That was a great line!

Personally I cannot stand Shirley MacLaine but I also really don't like Elizabeth McGovern (does she not have the most annoying voice?) and the actress who plays Mary.. I do so love Sybil and Edith!

Please let us know when you used the line and I shall try to say it to someone as well.

(Yes I love Tom too but Thomas is my absolute favorite. So sexy).

The Apartment is one of my all time favorite movies ever. For that movie alone I'd love MacLaine, but I add onto it that many, MANY years ago I did a way-the-hell-off-broadway show with a woman who had been in "The Turning Pointe," a 1979 movie with MacLaine and Anne Bancroft about ballet dancers (this actress played the young ingenue role). She told me that Shirley MacLaine was one of the kindest, most giving actors she'd ever met and was very, very nice to her. So I can't dislike her, unless maybe she bites the head off of a puppy on live TV or something. Then I might re-evaluate.

I like Cora better when she actually has something to do. She's become awfully Stepford wife since season one, and I couldn't believe she'd put up with the abuse the Brits were heaping on her own mother. I don't mind McGovern's voice- I've known a few Americans who have lived in Britain for awhile and they do get this weird hybrid accent, which I think she does well. But oy, the character is a limp noodle.

With you about Mary, though. I was actively rooting against her and Matthew last year. Never would have thought Edith would become my favorite sister, but she is!

Thomas is an extremely good-looking guy, yeah. And I love the rift between him and O'Brien!

I'll keep you posted with the line. Today the only people I've seen are my husband and the UPS delivery guy. And he shaves his head.