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"Raccoons and cats become a little bit boring, I mean for too long a time."

My latest obsession is Grey Gardens. It is a film about Edith and Edie Beale. I was lucky enough to catch it on AMC one night. The first time it was shown. "Big Edie" was a cousin of Jackie O's. "Little" Edie was just one wonderful sweetly crazy lady. It's hard to desribe this film in a logical way. Once you start watching it's hard to look away. One can find many reason why you should (some scenes are so sad it's almost physically painful) but you can't be dragged away. By the end it almost starts to make sense. They live in a 28 room mansion in the hampton's in the 70's. It is falling apart around them bit by bit. They have no heat. LE wraps herself in daily costumes - always a scarf on her head. I have read it was due to the fact in her early 20's she set her hair on fire. Sweater become skirts, skirts become headwraps. It is a world where nothing and everything is possible.....

To quote another..."This was source material for Tennessee Williams. The birthday party was out of Dickens. The faded portraits of the Beale women captured an almost Jamesian beauty: there was drama and mystery here (how did then become now?), along with the comedy (how did then become now?). "She likes everything without girdles," Edie confides about her mother -- equally descriptive of the whole Maysle/Beale enterprise."