Word: ida
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Three of the sisters are in their late 60s and one is 72. In the house on the left lives Ida Bolton (Nancy Marchand), and she has two problems. One is her husband Carl (Richard Hamilton), a man given to "spells" during which he plants his forehead against the kitchen wall or a tree. In this state, Carl bemoans the fact that he has "lost the fork," meaning the fork in the road of life's choices...
...Ida's second problem is her son Homer (David Rounds), who has clung to her apron strings for 40 years, not without her complicity. Homer, a man of glacial agility, is bringing Myrtle Brown (Lois de Banzie) home with him. She is a girl he has known for twelve years, dated for seven and been engaged to for five, without his parents' ever having seen...
...other was a quiet, hulking former schoolmate named Ida Baker, a sort of Alice B. Toklas in search of a Gertrude Stein. Ida was never Mansfield's lover, but she attached herself as factotum, confidante and nursemaid. To Mansfield, these ministrations were occasionally suffocating but ultimately indispensable. She sometimes referred to Ida as her wife...