Can you imagine seeing Grey Gardens: The Musical - or whatever it is they're calling it - without having watched this documentary first? I mean, could you really appreciate it?
This song about the best coshtume for the day does not hold a candle to Little Edie's original, revolutionary explanation.
Found this on YouTube:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JDS8tkdT_-E
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Holy crap! I love that video. Thanks for finding it, Rush! But you're right; you'd have to see the film first to appreciate it (and no one holds a candle to Little Edie). I love how Christine Ebersole delivers the line about getting arrested in East Hampton for wearing red shoes on a Thursday. That's Little Edie's line verbatim — and the thing about the "nasty Republicans." All the best lines in the "song" are straight out of the film.
But I love when she says: The full-length velvet glove hides a fist.
Yeah, I really like it. I was skeptical that it could work as a musical, but Christine Ebersole is fantastic.
I do think you'd have to know the documentary to truly appreciate it. How else could you even understand it? Or know why it was good?
This reminds me: In that interview, Little Edie says that before they agreed to do the Maysles movie, they had gotten calls from some other filmmakers who wanted to do fictionalized versions of their story. She said one director said he wanted Julie Christie to play her. She says, "Julie Christie! Can you imagine? Julie Christie as Edith Beale! If anyone's going to play Edith Beale, it's going to be Edith Beale!"
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