Exclusive: Shawn Pyfrom Returning to Desperate Regular folks

Shawn Pyfrom Dana Delany, Kyle MacLachlan and Andrea Bowen aren't really the only ones returning on Wisteria Lane: Shawn Pyfrom is positioned to return inside the final cases of Desperate Regular folks, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively. See the relaxation of current day news Pyfrom, who shows Bree's (Marcia Mix) boy Andrew, will reemerge in Episode 18 in the final season getting a sizable announcement. While particulars are scarce about what he'll be revealing to dear old mother, let's just say all things have certainly changed since he's been away. We last saw Andrew in Season 7 while he fought against with alcoholism before finally acknowledging to Carlos (Ricardo Chavira) he'd freshly freshly mowed lower his mother getting an automobile. Desperate Regular folks airs Sundays at 9/8c on ABC.

Keck's Exclusives: The Fonz Gets Up

Henry Winkler Ain't this cool? Former Fonz, Henry Winkler, is being eyed for the role of Ava's father,Robert, on NBC's Up All Night."We're excited about Henry Winkler, and Maya Rudolph [Ava] just adores him," says the show's executive producer, Emily Spivey.While Ava's mama was nutso, Spivey says Robert is "the more grounded and warm, loving parent. Even though he's flighty and a little irresponsible, he's a creative type who writes children's books. Henry, in the roles he's played, exudes a warmth and whimsy, which is why we thought of him."In real life, Henry has authored the successfulHank Zipzer series of children's books, which was news to Spivey. "No way! I had absolutely no idea," she said when I clued her in. "I can't wait to talk to Henry." Look for the character to debut in late April/early May, while Ava's mother, who tends bar in Florida and lives with a musician, would debut in Season 2.Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

Trippin' to yesteryear

If last year's best picture race in the Academy awards ended using the triumph of history ("The King's Speech") within the here-and-how ("The Social Networking"), the present contest has selected sides in the beginning, with Academy people casting their votes for movies that with excitement idealize bygone days.From the nine best picture nominees, only "Moneyball," "Very Noisy & Incredibly Close" and "The Descendants" occur these days, as well as individuals films, to 1 degree or any other, ruminate over styles of legacy, history or a period when, say, a scrappy team such as the Concord A's could challenge the mighty Yankees for baseball supremacy.Yes, Woodsy Allen's "Night time in Paris" starts in modern occasions, but the majority of the film concentrates on the magical outings that it is Allen stand-in, a film writer named Gil (Owen Wilson), takes in time for you to a Jazz Age Paris where he meets the kind of Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein. Gil has lengthy imagined of just living during this slice of history, and individuals around him deride him for his longing."Nostalgia is denial, denial from the painful present," lectures Paul, an old flame of Gil's girlfriend. "The reputation for this denial is Golden Age thinking, the erroneous notion that the different period of time is preferable to the main one a person's residing in. It is a flaw within the romantic imagination of individuals individuals who find it hard to deal with the current.InchAnd, yes, Paul is really a world-class bigmouth, but he's a place, one which Allen themself makes late within the film when Gil and the 20's French girlfriend skip to the Belle Epoque era. "I am in the '20s, and I am suggesting the golden age is la Belle Epoque," she informs Gil, much to his dismay.Another movies nominated for the best picture -- "The Artist," "Hugo," "War Equine," "The AssistanceInch and "The Tree of Existence" -- will also be strongly implanted with nostalgia, and, as Paul might argue, originate from places of discomfort or uncertainty with modern occasions. Contrast the current-day images of the brooding Sean Penn held in a steel city in "Tree" together with his idyllic memories of the childhood put in the truly amazing Outdoors. "The AssistanceInch tidily takes note of past civil privileges triumphs, possibly an simpler task than analyzing the racial problems that exist today.The rest of the trio turn their gaze inward toward the medium itself. Steven Spielberg styled "War Equine" around the epic films of John Ford and Victor Fleming, its outsized music, visual grandeur and languid pacing remembering classical Hollywood. "The Artist" and "Hugo" return even more, honoring the first times of cinema at any given time when movie film cameras and celluloid is near extinction."We all do lovingly think back at quiet cinema, it's correct,Inch states 'Artist' author-director Michel Hazanavicius. "However the movie is actually in regards to a guy who finds themself from the overall game. Technologies have transformed and left him behind. And that is relatable now, no?"Relatable, yes. Knowing in the nostalgic late of best picture nominees, it appears that, yes, Academy people can appreciate the man's dilemma.Eye around the Academy awards: Best Picture PreviewTrippin' to yesteryear Moody key art set tone for kudo challengers Poster children for any year of reflection, uncertainty Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com