On Tuesday, December 30, 2008, MPT of PBS stations ran an “Operation Filmmaker” segment of “Independent Lens”, “Grey Gardens: From East Hampton to Broadway,” link here. The concerned Edith Bouvoir Beale and her daughter, aunt and cousin to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, living in squalor in an East Hampton estate. This is becoming a new documentary for HBO in 2009, directed by Michale Suczy, but there was film in 1975 directed by Ellen Hoyde and Albert Maysles, from Portrait films. The story is controversial because the daughter came home apparently to be cared for rather than become a caregiver.
The film would become the subject matter for a Broadway musical in 2006, at the Walter Kerr Theater, with the site here, “Meet Jackie O’s Most Scandalous Relatives!” with Christine Ebersole and Mary Louise Wilson.
Portions of the film and Broadway stage setup were shown, with cats milling around the household clutter, which would have deserved a show from Oprah.
Picture: where I lived in NYC in the 1970s, 6th floor. My apartment wasn't quite as messy as that shown in the show here, but, as on "I Love Lucy," it looked "lived in".
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