tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45701897845641387972011-11-27T16:25:14.741-08:00Lenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13375027310845756893noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4570189784564138797.post-68909173739780569992009-04-18T22:25:00.000-07:002009-04-18T23:04:12.480-07:00This story of two formerly well-to-do eccentrics continues to hold sway in the popular and artistic imagination. It opens this week at the Ordway Center.<br /><br />They were a couple of upper-crust eccentrics who lived with scores of cats, raccoons and possums in a haunted, junk-strewn mansion surrounded by unkempt grounds in the exclusive Hamptons. Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter, Edith Bouvier Beale -- better known as Big Edie and Little Edie -- might have been footnotes in a text on the history of obsessive-compulsive behavior had it not been for the confluence of their genteel pedigree, their almost feral living conditions and film.<br /><br />The story of the two women, an aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, was memorably captured in a 1975 cult documentary, "Grey Gardens." A part of that film, by Albert and David Maysles, is being remade by writer/director Michael Sucsy for HBO. It stars Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore as the mother and daughter.<br /><br />By Rohan Preston, Star Tribune<br /><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4570189784564138797-6890917373978056999?l=lensbreakingnews.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13375027310845756893noreply@blogger.com0