Grey Gardens -- The Return of the Marble Faun.
March 9, 2006 5:16 PM Subscribe
"The trouble is, he's madly in love with Edie." Not quite. Jerry Torre, the teenage handy man from Grey Gardens, describes his relationship with Little Edie Bouvier Beale as more of a "sibling rivalry." Be sure to check out Grey Gardens the musical and the remake that's in the works.
"The relatives didn't know that they were dealing with a staunch character!" Oh, Grey Gardens, how I love this film so madly. I was just reading the New York Times review of the new musical -- with audio slideshow! -- and was not pulverized by this latest thing.
posted by kittyb at 6:19 PM on March 9, 2006
posted by kittyb at 6:19 PM on March 9, 2006
I have full faith that Drew Barrymore will ensure the dramatization of this story to be a complete and total fuck up.
posted by soiled cowboy at 6:54 PM on March 9, 2006
posted by soiled cowboy at 6:54 PM on March 9, 2006
this is a damn good film, as are most by the Maysles. thanks rokabiri!
. . . but a musical???? eh . . .
posted by visit beautiful mount weather! at 6:57 PM on March 9, 2006
. . . but a musical???? eh . . .
posted by visit beautiful mount weather! at 6:57 PM on March 9, 2006
its documentary nature alone should assure any attempt at dramatizing it to be a complete and total fuck up!
but yeah, barrymore can't help matters
posted by visit beautiful mount weather! at 7:00 PM on March 9, 2006
but yeah, barrymore can't help matters
posted by visit beautiful mount weather! at 7:00 PM on March 9, 2006
ensure? "i'm totally high right now"
posted by visit beautiful mount weather! at 7:01 PM on March 9, 2006
posted by visit beautiful mount weather! at 7:01 PM on March 9, 2006
"Gimme Shelter: The Musical of the Story of the Music!!!"
posted by visit beautiful mount weather! at 7:02 PM on March 9, 2006
posted by visit beautiful mount weather! at 7:02 PM on March 9, 2006
Fascinating story. Full disclosure, I freelanced on the musical that is currently at Playwrights Horizons (in prop land) and hadn't heard of the documentary until I started to go through the documentary in order to take notes.
Disturbing story, great film. I always figured when I was younger I'd grow up to be an eccentric like Edie. Sadly, this hasn't happened since what I didn't realize then was that the difference between eccentric and crazy is a trust fund.
posted by stagewhisper at 7:09 PM on March 9, 2006
Disturbing story, great film. I always figured when I was younger I'd grow up to be an eccentric like Edie. Sadly, this hasn't happened since what I didn't realize then was that the difference between eccentric and crazy is a trust fund.
posted by stagewhisper at 7:09 PM on March 9, 2006
I love the movie. I love the movie lots. But... and it's at this point I'm at an astonishing loss for words that aren't profane or otherwise gross in precision. But I'll try.
A musical? WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU SMOKING YOU STUPID SELF-FELLATING SPANKMEISTERS?
A dramatized remake!? ARE YOU ON GLUE? Are the solvents finally turning your collective non-brain into a finely pulped liquid mush? Drew? WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK, DREW? DECLINE THE PROJECT. DECLINE! RUN! FUCK THE CONTRACTS. RUN, GODDAMNIT, RUN!
I've known about this for a few weeks now, but... it just boggles my FUCKING MIND that somehow some stupid someone somewhere completely failed to grasp the point that the whole beauty of the movie Grey Gardens is that it was real. That it was a stark, unforgiving, practically naked documentary. That the charms of Grey Gardens lie entirely in this unforgiving framing, this unapologetic view of someone's life, the questioning of what sanity is or isn't, what it may or may not be, and how it (sometimes brutally) forced the viewer to question not only their own sanity, but their very defininition of sanity.
Damn, I need a cigarette. And fresh pants. I think I just gurned in distaste so hard I soiled my trousers.
posted by loquacious at 7:11 PM on March 9, 2006
A musical? WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU SMOKING YOU STUPID SELF-FELLATING SPANKMEISTERS?
A dramatized remake!? ARE YOU ON GLUE? Are the solvents finally turning your collective non-brain into a finely pulped liquid mush? Drew? WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK, DREW? DECLINE THE PROJECT. DECLINE! RUN! FUCK THE CONTRACTS. RUN, GODDAMNIT, RUN!
I've known about this for a few weeks now, but... it just boggles my FUCKING MIND that somehow some stupid someone somewhere completely failed to grasp the point that the whole beauty of the movie Grey Gardens is that it was real. That it was a stark, unforgiving, practically naked documentary. That the charms of Grey Gardens lie entirely in this unforgiving framing, this unapologetic view of someone's life, the questioning of what sanity is or isn't, what it may or may not be, and how it (sometimes brutally) forced the viewer to question not only their own sanity, but their very defininition of sanity.
Damn, I need a cigarette. And fresh pants. I think I just gurned in distaste so hard I soiled my trousers.
posted by loquacious at 7:11 PM on March 9, 2006
loquacious said it better than i . . .
posted by visit beautiful mount weather! at 7:27 PM on March 9, 2006
posted by visit beautiful mount weather! at 7:27 PM on March 9, 2006
OK, I understand the initial dubiousness with which the idea of a "Grey Gardens" musical is met with, BUT please consider that Doug Wright wrote the book, so it can't be all bad.
(Wright has won a Pulitzer and Tony for I Am My Own Wife, wrote the play and screenplay for Quills, and is an unbelievably gifted man. I attended the Dramatic Writing Program with him @ NYU and was awed as an undergrad at his grace and talent.)
posted by ltracey at 7:35 PM on March 9, 2006
(Wright has won a Pulitzer and Tony for I Am My Own Wife, wrote the play and screenplay for Quills, and is an unbelievably gifted man. I attended the Dramatic Writing Program with him @ NYU and was awed as an undergrad at his grace and talent.)
posted by ltracey at 7:35 PM on March 9, 2006
loquacious, why change your pants? You could just as easily take your cape and wear it as a skirt ...
Thank you all for the perfect thought tonight before bed. I'll have beautiful dreams of Little Edie performing "We All March Together."
posted by red cell at 8:11 PM on March 9, 2006
Thank you all for the perfect thought tonight before bed. I'll have beautiful dreams of Little Edie performing "We All March Together."
posted by red cell at 8:11 PM on March 9, 2006
Why the concerns about Drew Barrymore? She seems a perfect choice in a way, given her pedigree (Hollywood, along with politics, being an accepted place where an American faux-aristocracy can flourish), her early dissolute period and her considerable abilities as actress. Remember, Grey Gardens is hardly straight documentary or realistic in any naive sense. The Bouvier sisters perform themselves with relish, camping it up (think Tom Jones) and stylizing what may have been a more boring or drab reality. Take that Jackie, with your Oleg Cassini sunglasses and boyish hips.
Musical? What musical? That's about a bad idea as turning bad T. S. Eliot poems about cats, written in his decrepitude, into a spandex-covered, method-acting (you want the scratching post, show us how much you NEED the scratching post) nightmare crossbreeding of A Chorus Line and Little Friskies. No one could be that stupid or tasteless.
What just happened?
posted by Toolshed at 9:51 PM on March 9, 2006
Musical? What musical? That's about a bad idea as turning bad T. S. Eliot poems about cats, written in his decrepitude, into a spandex-covered, method-acting (you want the scratching post, show us how much you NEED the scratching post) nightmare crossbreeding of A Chorus Line and Little Friskies. No one could be that stupid or tasteless.
What just happened?
posted by Toolshed at 9:51 PM on March 9, 2006
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