1.   Even then I could see she was a vaudeville foil to my eccentric grandmother, who, while not wealthy, had never learned how to cook or drive.

2.   She plays a college student who lives at home with her younger brother, her traditional parents and an eccentric grandmother.

3.   What he discovered instead was Mimi, his increasingly eccentric grandmother.

4.   What he discovered instead was Mimi, his increasingly eccentric grandmother, who had moved in with his parents from her home in rural North Carolina.