Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Moviegoers first heard Jack Nicholson's retired astronaut Garrett Breedlove deliver that line to next-door neighbor and unlikely ...

"You don't do that storyline unless it's a comedy," Brooks says of his 1983 movie starring Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger Brooks' latest movie is Ella McCay, which stars Emma Mackey in the title ...

From left to right, Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, and Jack Nicholson as seen in the 1983 film “Terms of Endearment.” (Paramount Pictures) Forty years ago tomorrow, December 9, the Oscar-winning film ...

“He said, ‘I did my book; you go do your movie,’” Brooks says. “It felt bad, but it was freeing. … It was the best thing he could’ve said to me.” With the Texas novelist’s curmudgeonly blessing, ...

On Friday’s show: We look back at the film “Terms of Endearment,” released 40 years ago. The Oscar-winning movie was set in Houston and based on a book by Larry McMurtry. And we meet the next host of ...

"What I got was a ticket to freedom for at least a year," Brooks said after winning Best Picture. James L. Brooks is detailing the advice he received from an acclaimed producer after making his ...

But was his most influential piece of entertainment still ahead of him? Setting the template for the sort of tender funny-sad movie that would become a Hollywood staple, 1983’s “Terms of Endearment” ...

James L. Brooks is setting the record straight on Terms of Endearment. Brooks, 85, spoke exclusively with PEOPLE about a common misconception surrounding his 1983 hit movie, which follows the ...